MAKE RADIATION VISIBLE

There are smog alerts and pollen alerts,

but no health alerts for this public health hazard

routinely released into our environment

– ionizing radioactive pollution.


Our 2013 Report, Radioactive Emissions

and Health Hazards Surrounding Browns Ferry

Nuclear Power Plant in Alabama,

found death rates had risen from

less than 2% to 20% above U.S. rates

since Browns Ferry reactors started up in the 1970s.


Infant mortality is 22% above the national rate,

and even higher for Hispanics (40%) and Whites (32%).

(View or download report PDF in right column.)


We think more studies need to be done,

and real-time radiation monitoring

and public health alerts are needed.


Pregnant women and mothers

deserve posted radiation alerts

to protect their children

on days when there are scheduled routine

(and accidental) radioactive releases.



Please SIGN the PETITION

to MAKE RADIATION VISIBLE

and learn more about it

at MakeRadiationVisible.org!




SAVE MONEY SAVE ENERGY SAVE LIVES




SAVE LIVES


Prevent Radioactive Poisoning


There is no safe dose of radiation

and radiation poisoning is cumulative.

We can now produce reliable and economical electricity

without polluting our environment,

so why risk the health of our valley

and our children's health?


Nuclear power plants

release radioactive poisons

into our air and water

during routine operations.

Multiple international studies

show significant rises

in cancer rates

near nuclear power plants,

especially in childhood cancers.


Nuclear power plants produce

large amounts of extremely poisonous

radioactive wastes,

and store most of it

in spent fuel cooling pools,

which hold far more radiation

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.



Read our DANGER RISKS and RADIATION POISON pages.



SAVE MONEY


As taxpayers and as rate-payers,

we are paying high prices

for a dangerous source of electricity

nuclear power.


Just 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".


*See our Money $inkhole page.





SAVE ENERGY


Energy Efficiency,

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.






WHAT YOU CAN DO


Contact Your Elected Representatives


Sign a Letter to the NRC


Sign a Letter to TVA



Join BEST /MATRR - Because It Matters



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

Support Green Legislation in Your State.


Send a link to your friends

so they can learn about energy at MATRR.org.






Bellefonte Efficiency & Sustainability Team

BEST

Mothers Against Tennessee River Radiation

MATRR

Because It Matters







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