The article should have pointed out that the estimate was made by an antinuclear group and that the company says it has received less than $4 billion.

"It is 23 years old and it's passed its lifetime," said Joanne Oleksiak, a spokesman for an antinuclear group.

Except for antinuclear groups, hardly anyone now pays attention.

So the publicity effort organized by environmental and antinuclear groups went largely unnoticed.

"This has not been a movement driven by antinuclear groups," he said.

Supporters of the project accuse the national environmental and antinuclear groups of interfering in a state dispute.

After months of criticism by local officials and antinuclear groups, federal regulators had responded with terse judgments that were too thinly supported to evoke confidence.

They can be disposed of safely, and the leaders of antinuclear groups know it.

He met his wife, Laura, in an antinuclear group in Chelsea in 1986.

That troubled history has long concerned antinuclear groups, environmentalists and elected officials.