re: Trust me- I have seen it happen
Trust me I have seen the opposite. The facts don't seem to support what you believe you have seen. Anti-nuke protests have been less vigorous and even less successfull in the past years with regard to space missions with nuclear power sources. As I understand events recently the most recent public meetings in FL had a minimal anti-nuke attendance - the smallest in years .The fact that every single mission has been launched without any significant - or even remotely effective legal or physical roadblocks is a far more accurate predictor of things to come. Face it - the anti-nukers make noise but in the end they have zero effect where it counts.