Reply #13: In a similar way to how "Charity begins at home" ...

[Nihil]

... anti-nuclear activism begins in the "Back Yard".

:shrug:

The "how" is usually the result of a momentary awakening from
the normal somnambulistic state by a news report of a nuclear
incident somewhere in the world that encourages the individual
to "find out more". After they've read a few more Greenpeace
articles, they sign a petition and go back to sleep again in
the safe knowledge that their activism has saved the world.

To be sure, there are always a few people who will actually
*do* something to protest nuclear power but there is a significant
overlap with the few people who will actually *do* something to
protest coal (burning, mining and dumping), the few people who will
actually *do* something to protest gas (fracking, piping and burning),
the few people who will actually *do* something to protest oil
(drilling, piping, burning), the few people who will actually *do*
something to protect nature (whales, dolphins, tuna, orangutans, ...)
and, in fact, the very very few people who will actually put their
money, their time and their effort into what they believe is the
right thing to do.

This latter (sadly small) group of people are truly to be admired.