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SAVE MONEY

As taxpayers and as rate-payers,

we are paying extremely high prices

for a very dangerous source of electricity

– nuclear power.

Only one accident or terrorist attack

means a financial meltdown

for your nuclear utility company.

Nuclear power is too risky for Wall Street,

but Congress invests – with our money,

backing loans 100% to build them,

even though the Government Accounting Office (GAO)

predicts a 50% default rate.

We back the LOANS as TAXPAYERS,

and we PAY the loans as RATE-PAYERS.

Cost for a one reactor plant –

$5 to 12 Billion dollars,

not counting the cost of managing

its highly radioactive nuclear 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 coal or new nuclear –

without the coal ash ponds, air pollutants,

radioactive emissions, or radioactive waste.

Energy Efficiency programs mean

local construction jobs now,

with no special training or high security clearances.

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."

America does not need more

dangerous and expensive nuclear waste

from more nuclear power plants.

Our utility companies 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

The above map is the NOAA track

of the April 2011 tornadoes

superimposed on a map of the

50 mile danger zones around

TVA nuclear reactors and cooling pools.

(see end of page)

Nearly one million people

live within 50 miles

of the Fukushima-style

Browns Ferry Nuclear Plant

where a Category EF-5 tornado

swept very near

three million pounds

of highly radioactive fuel

in raised cooling pools

with only sheet metal roofs

as overhead containment.

There is no safe dose of radiation

and radiation poisoning is cumulative.

Why risk the health of our river

and our children's health?

During routine operation, nuclear power plants

release radioactive poisons into our air and water.

Multiple international studies

show highly significant rises

in cancer rates

near nuclear power plants,

with alarmingly high rates

of acute childhood leukemia.

Nuclear power plants produce

large amounts of extremely poisonous

radioactive wastes,

and store most of it

in spent–fuel cooling pools,

which are much more radioactive

than the reactor cores

but have far less containment security

and require constant water and electricity

(witness the explosions at Fukushima).

Some of these poisons remain radioactive for thousands of years,

forcing future generations to pay for storing

and containing them – if they can afford it.

Our utility companies should put

our health and safety first.

Over 100 million Americans

live in danger of nuclear exposure.

Demand that your utility phase–out nuclear.

Read our DANGER RISKS and RADIATION POISON pages.

Demand a Better Way from Your Utility