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SAVE MONEY

As taxpayers and as rate-payers, we are paying for the most expensive

and dangerous electrical power on earth – nuclear power.

One accident or terrorist attack anywhere
means a financial meltdown

for the nuclear industry everywhere.

Nuclear power is too risky for Wall Street,

but Congress invests – with our money,

backing loans 100% to build them,

though the GAO predicts a 50% default rate.

We back the LOANS as TAXPAYERS,

and WE PAY the loans as RATE-PAYERS.

Cost for just one proposed reactor –

$7 to 12 Billion dollars,

not counting the cost of managing its radioactive wastes,

"a bill that keeps coming for centuries".

Read our Money $inkhole page.

Demand a Better Way from TVA.

SAVE ENERGY

Energy Efficiency Programs,

Wind, and Solar Power

create more jobs, cost less,

come online more quickly,

and do not threaten the health of our valley.

Money spent on Energy Efficiency and Renewables

betters money spent on new nuclear or coal –

without the radioactive emissions, radioactive waste,

coal ash ponds, or climate change pollutants.

Energy Efficiency programs mean

local construction jobs now,

with no special training or security clearances required.

In the South in the next decade,

according to a Duke University and Georgia Tech study,

Energy Efficiency programs can

"lower utility bills by $41 billion,

create 380,000 new jobs,

reduce the need for new power plants,

and save 8.6 billion gallons of fresh water."

The Tennessee Valley does not need more

dangerous and expensive nuclear waste

from more nuclear power plants.

TVA can create more permanent local jobs, more quickly,

with Energy Efficiency Programs

and can lead us into the future

with Smart Renewable Energy.

*Read our CLEAN ENERGY page.

Demand a Better Way from TVA.

SAVE LIVES

Prevent Radioactive Poisoning

During routine operation, nuclear power plants

release radioactive poisons into our air and water.

There is no safe dose of radiation

and radiation poisoning is cumulative.

Why risk the health of our river and our children's health?

There are already 6 nuclear reactors in the Tennessee Valley,

each producing 20-30 tons of radioactive waste per year,

being stored on-site along the river.

Most of this high level radioactive waste

is stored in cooling pools,

which are much more radioactive than reactor cores

and have much less containment security.

These poisons remain radioactive for thousands of years,

forcing future generations to pay for sequestration,

if they can afford it.

TVA should put our health and safety first.

Read our DANGER RISKS and RADIATION POISON pages.

Demand a Better Way from TVA.