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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
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.
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
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Bellefonte Efficiency & Sustainability Team
BEST
Mothers Against Tennessee River Radiation
MATRR
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