Zombies Protest TVA Possibly Restarting Bellefonte Nuclear Reactor Construction

[bananas]

Source: WDEF TV

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Zombies roamed the streets today in front of the TVA building downtown.

They're protesting TVA's CEO asking the board to approve moving forward with the halted construction on the Bellefonte nuclear reactor.

Organizer Sandy Kurtz says, "Well, it is a zombie reactor after all. Its neither alive nor dead. It's been mothballed. It's been abandoned for several years. The permit was lapsed, and suddenly they've reinstated things and they're going on head with it, with a very old design, old technology and we don't need it. So, we don't want it to come back to life."

Protestors worry about radiation exposure especially after the recent nuclear melt-down in Fukushima.
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Read more: http://www.wdef.com/news/zombies_protest_tva_possibly_restarting_bellefonte_nuclear_reactor_construction/07/2011

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Video with the news story.

[bananas]

1. photo; also comments by a US Army nuclear biological and chemical warfare protection officer

and some other protestors:

http://timesfreepress.com/news/2011/jul/21/plants-vs-zombies/

Thursday, July 21st, 2011
Protesters ask TVA to stop building nuclear reactors
by Pam Sohn



Wenona Kuesh, Isabelle McCurdy, Sophie McCurdy and other anti-nuclear protesters march in front of the Market Street. TVA building to demonstrate against the proposed development of nuclear plants. Anti-nuclear activists and their families met in Miller Park to prepare for a zombie flash mob into the entrance of TVA in order to deliver a letter to Tom Kilgore regarding proposed nuclear plant.
Photo by Jenna Walker.

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Calling Bellefonte a "corpse" and "nuclear zombie," Lou Zeller, with the Blue Ridge Environmental Defense League, said the plant has a questionable reactor design and many of its vital parts were sold for scrap and cannibalized for spare parts in other reactors.

Garry Morgan, a retired U.S. Army nuclear biological and chemical warfare protection officer, said the plant sits on sinkhole-prone terrain two miles away from a seismic fault that wasn't factored into it's safety design.

"I am very concerned over the deceit of TVA management's reporting to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and the public," Morgan said, referring to problems at Browns Ferry during the week after tornadoes forced the plant into emergency shutdown and several systems at the plant failed. He also cited the problems discovered in TVA operations and communications in 2008 involving the Kingston ash spill.

"There can be no compromise of trust and reliability of personnel as it relates to nuclear programs," Morgan said.

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[Nihil]

3. Apart from the wording of the placards, it looks like any other anti-nuke protest. (n/t)

:P

[apnu]

6. Awesome! (nt)

[TheWraith]

2. Apparently, no one gives a shit about the 40,000 people a year who are killed by coal.

But some imaginary potential future deaths from a nuclear reactor? Stop the presses!!!!one.

[freshwest]

4. K & R

[Ter]

5. Good thing Leon S. Kennedy and Chris Redfield didn't see them!

:D

[FogerRox]

7. Designed in the 1960's

If.... we are going to build new nukes, they have to be new designs, that incorporate a 3-7 day passive walk away deign.

...these plants were started in the mid 1970's and basically are like paying todays prices for a 1974 Pinto.

http://www.southernstudies.org/2011/04/voices-tvas-bellefonte-plant-is-a-nuclear-ford-pinto.html