Nuclear Energy is Not Cheap Energy

        American utility consumers, victims & taxpayers pay added costs

• 59% of federal taxpayer  research and development dollars go to nuclear energy (vs. 11%  for renewable energy and 7% for energy efficiency).
  
• Liability limitations (via Price Anderson act) for nuclear operators means taxpayers ' dollars will be spent later in case of any accidents.
  
• Waste clean-up from past nuclear industry contamination problems are being paid by millions of additional taxpayer dollars, now.
  
• Utility consumers have mandatory added fees on their utility bills for stranded costs for uneconomical nuclear plants built in the past.
  
• A federal agency (Nuclear Regulatory Commission) budget ($670 million) is paid by taxpayers to deal with all the risks/problems of nuclear energy.
  
• Spent nuclear reactor fuel (plutonium 239) requires federally-supported
  facilities and is a 240,000 year liability before it is determined to be
  safe.
  
• From the experience of the Soviet Union's Chernobyl plant, disaster costs might negate 30 yrs. of any fuel costs benefits of all U.S. nuclear plants.
  
• Health care costs & compensation funds for miners ( up to $400,000 each), and others, are  paid by your private insurance and Medicare  &
  Medicaid.
  
• Federal, state & local law enforcement & military agencies have to use more tax dollars to  provide higher levels of security required for nuclear plants.
  
• Transportation spillages, minor upwind accidents, storage mistakes etc. impact the property values of all those persons & businesses near where
  they occur.
  
• The future costs of a terrorist act from a bomb (only requiring several pounds of spent  nuclear plant fuel !) are so large that they are almost
  incalculable.
  
• Contact your Congressmen & local officials to begin eliminating all funding & support for nuclear energy and weapons.