I thought I might have sounded a bit over-the-top in my earlier entry, when I speculated that the opposition to space nuclear power was less about alternative energy options and more about stopping human activities in space altogether.
Then I find this:
The newspaper said that environmentalists had long complained about the harm to nature from rocket launches from Plesetsk, about 1,200 kilometers (800 miles) north of Moscow, but officials had dismissed their push for compensation.
After having exhausted other legal arguments, the environmentalists turned to the leaky sewage system as a last resort in their fight against the cosmodrome, Kommersant said.
That about says it all, nyet?