The Department of Energy is planning to pay DCS (an international corporate consortium) to build and operate a new factory at the Savannah River Site (SRS) to make experimental nuclear reactor fuel out of plutonium from nuclear bombs. Across the Savannah River from Augusta and upstream of many Georgia communities, 50 years of nuclear bomb production has made SRS an environmental liability to Georgia.

Making plutonium fuel at SRS will make matters worse:

• 20 more years of plutonium handling at the site;

• New types of radioactive waste would add to the mess at SRS. More than a million of gallons of new liquid waste would be added to already leaking waste tanks;

• Secret transportation of tons of plutonium through the Atlanta metropolitan area – only a small percentage of the material is at SRS now. I-20 is a likely route;

• Handling bomb plutonium is risky: the 1999 nuclear accident in Tokai, Japan at a uranium fuel factory -- plutonium can be trickier;

• WE PAY FOR IT – our taxes pay for this federally funded mission of the Department of Energy. There are alternatives for plutonium – it can be declared a waste NOW and stored with highly radioactive wrapping to make it more secure.

• Georgia Power has an interest in using plutonium fuel in the Vogtle reactors south of Augusta. Plutonium causes more cancer deaths in the event of a reactor accident.

Georgians for Clean Energy

Atlanta: Rita Kilpatrick georgia@cleanenergy.ws 404-659-5675

Savannah: Sara Barczak sara@cleanenergy.ws, (912) 201-0354

website: www.cleanenergy.ws

GANE -- Georgians Against Nuclear Energy

Glenn Carroll atom.girl@mindspring.com 404-378-GANE

WAND Atlanta – Women’s Action for New Directions

Jen Kato – jmackpsr@aol.com 404-296-6229

Physicians for Social Responsibility / Atlanta

Tom Ferguson – tferguson8@aol.com 404-378-9078

Sierra Club – Savannah River Group & GA State Chapter

Susan Bloomfield – sbloomfield@webtv.net 706-736-4348

• Visible opposition – letters to the editor, contact GANE about a vigil at SRS on Nagasaki Day (the Nagasaki bomb was plutonium) – your idea here!

• Educate elected officials and hold them accountable – tell Georgia’s congressional delegation to

• BOYCOTT Duke Energy – Duke does not sell electric power in Georgia yet, but they do sell natural gas since the market opened to competition. Don’t buy from Duke, and let them know why…contact Georgians for Clean Energy to support their NIX Duke effort.

• Support the INTERVENTION to STOP the new plutonium fuel factory at SRS. Contact GANE – intervening on all our behalf to lend your support ($, volunteer time, etc.)