On Thursday, February 25, join thousands of concerned americans who will be calling their members of Congress as part of National Call-Congress Day.

Call your Representatives and your Senators this Thursday and tell them to stop the tripling of the nuclear loan program. You can reach all of your Congress members at 202-224-3121 (the congressional switch board will connect you to your representative). Our congress people all have web forms that you can use to send a email. Follow these links for Sen. Hatch, Sen. Bennett, Rep. Matheson, Rep. Chaffetz and Rep. Bishop.

Some quick talking points (from NIRS) for your calls on Thursday:

• The American people are tired of corporate bailouts. In this case, taxpayers would provide the loans and take all the risk. The large utilities would take any profits, and taxpayers would pay for all losses. That is fundamentally unfair to the American people.
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• Congress should wait and see how the current loans (to the Vogtle reactors in Georgia and likely one or two more reactors) fare before risking even more taxpayer money on nuclear loans.
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• Nuclear power remains dirty and dangerous, as demonstrated by the recent toxic tritium leaks at the Vermont Yankee reactor and elsewhere.
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• It would be folly to repeat the mistakes of the past and encourage new reactor construction when we still don't know how to handle the radioactive waste from existing reactors.
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• We need to address the climate crisis with the fastest, cheapest, cleanest and safest means possible of reducing carbon emissions. Nuclear power is the slowest, most expensive, dirtiest and most dangerous technology available. And nuclear power is not carbon-free: its carbon footprint is greater than wind, solar, and energy efficiency.
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• Our goal should be to attain a nuclear-free, carbon-free energy future. Anyone who believes this isn't possible just isn't paying attention.