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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.

Read our Money $inkhole page.

Just one proposed reactor costs

$7 to 12 Billion dollars,

not counting the long-term costs of managing
its copious radioactive wastes,

"a bill that keeps coming for centuries."

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?

Each nuclear reactor will produce 20-30 tons of radioactive waste

at the Bellefonte site every year of operation.

These poisons remain dangerous for thousands of years

and will be stored next to our river – with inadequate security

(or transported, if a safe nuclear storage depository

can be constructed in the future).

TVA should put our health and safety first.

Read our DANGER RISKS and RADIATION POISON pages.

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,

Energy Efficiency 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

dirty, dangerous, and expensive

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.

WHAT YOU CAN DO

Call your TVA board and tell them what you think 1-865-632-2101

Call your U.S. Congressmen & Senators 1-877-851-6437

Tell your Senators to ratify the President's 2009 TVA board appointees now!

Print our 'check'' voucher and send it in with your electric bill.

Join BEST /MATRR - Because It Matters

Bellefonte Efficiency & Sustainability Team

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Mothers Against Tennessee River Radiation

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