Say No to a Nuclear Bellefonte

Cable TV commercial focusing on the dangers of nuclear power," Say no to a nuclear Bellefonte." This commercial was written by me and includes my pictures. The production was performed by Charter Communications of Decatur, Al. and is paid for by BEST, Bellefonte Efficiency and Sustainability Team. Contact your Congressional representatives and the TVA Board, tell them there is a better way than radioactive nuclear power to produce electricity. Nuclear power is not safe, it is not reliable and it is very expensive. Go to http://www.matrr.org for more information.

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• TVA
• Bellefonte Alabama
• nuclear power
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• sustainable energy

[nrutledge01]

If you think wind and solar can sustain a baseload, have fun not having electricity. Me and the rest of the country will keep our lights and our nuclear units. I live less than 10 miles from Sequoyah and sleep like a baby at night.

[ndaboro]

@nrutledge01 We've already had this discussion, you are being repetitive.

[nrutledge01]

The Navy has been safely running nukes for over 50 years and these same designs have been implemented for commercial nuclear power for over 30. There has never been a major accident from a US plant that has killed people. The odds of that happening are on the order of 1 in 10,000,000 in a lot of cases. The people in this area and the country support this technology and you won't be able to wipe the smiles off our face the day they connect Unit 1 to the grid.

[ndaboro]

@nrutledge01 You continue to miss the point with your continuous nuclear propaganda. Radiation is released from nuclear power plants, the fuels process does kill and accidents do occur. But yet, you and those like you in your support of nuclear power continue with the deceit. You do not present the risks, the hazards, the failures nor the truth. Deceit and propaganda in nuclear program management is not a desirable quality for those involved in nuclear materials and management,

[nrutledge01]

Now, let's look at Chernobyl-4, the worst nuclear disaster at a commercial power plant (and that design is being phased out, the operators were wreckless, and that design isn't even allowed in the US). There were 4000 cases of thyroid cancer reported in children that were attributed to the accident, of these cases, nine (9) total were fatal. There is a big difference in 9 versus several thousand like ndaboro is saying.

[ndaboro]

@nrutledge01 More biased propaganda on your part. What do they teach you in college these days, how to be a puppet of the nuclear industry instead of factual risks and science? There have been 4995 deaths from the workers at Chernobyl, over 600,000 are on the Chernobyl registry as exposed. There is more info from World Nuclear dot org. Please, stop with the patronizing deceit, it demonstrates the nuclear industry's efforts to deceive the public.

[ndaboro]

@nrutledge01 Not my figures, Department of Energy and Department of Labor's figures. It is your comments which are not true. Do your research, it is the fuels process which is killing workers. The nuclear industry has not told the truth about nuclear power and neither do you.

[nrutledge01]

Unless a bunch of nuclear workers are going swimming in the spent fuel pool every day and dying as a result of it (which isn't happening), this idea of "thousands of people dying" simply is not true.

[nrutledge01]

Ok, lets talk risks of nuclear. I'll start with a car. Can 1 car kill 500,000 people? Probably not. Can 500,000 cars? Yes. By the way, there are an average of 40,000 deaths associated with car crashes every year. So, with that rate in mind, there have been 500,000 people killed by cars since about mid 1998 (and I'd actually be willing to bet there was more, this is just going on averages). 12 minutes after I get finish posting this, another person will die in a car accident.

[ndaboro]

@fitter760 No fitter760 stupidity is not your problem, working and supporting a program that may kill you and has killed many is your problem. Another part of your problem is supporting a massive propaganda program that goes along with radioactive atomic energy. Facts at matrr dot org.