By Bill Poovey, Associated Press
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. — The Tennessee Valley Authority has a message for opponents of it finishing a long-shuttered, 37-year-old nuclear plant in northeast Alabama: No costumes.
A month after zombie-costumed protesters paraded in Chattanooga to oppose TVA reviving what they described as a “corpse of a power plant,” the nation’s largest public utility has posted a new ban on costumes at its board meeting Thursday.
A TVA spokesman said the no-costume rule is intended to avoid any “disruption” at the meeting in Knoxville when the board acts on a recommendation to finish construction of a reactor at the Bellefonte Nuclear Plant where work was stopped and the site became a pricey scrap yard.
An opponent of TVA’s plan to restart the nuclear plant construction that was stopped in the 1980s said she and others want to see the project at least delayed. Sandy Kurtz and other members of the Bellefonte Efficiency and Sustainability Team group say promoting conservation and renewable energy sources are better alternatives.
“We don’t know where zombies will turn up,” Kurtz said of the new costume rule.

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