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Reprocessing 1AC

1AC

Inherency

Observation One: Inherency

Nuclear renaissance now – US subsidizing the industry.

Worthington 12 (David Worthington, February 9, 2012, The U.S. nuclear renaissance has begun  , Smart Planet, http://www.smartplanet.com/blog/intelligent-energy/the-us-nuclear-renaissance-has-begun/13058) JD

There are cooling towers on the horizon in the United States. The nuclear renaissance

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million homes at a cost of US$14 billion, CNN reported.

But, the US is not reversing course on reprocessing.

Saillan 10 (Charles, attorney with the New Mexico Environment Department, Harvard Environmental Law Review, 2010, “DISPOSAL OF SPENT NUCLEAR FUEL IN THE UNITED STATES AND EUROPE: A PERSISTENT ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEM”, Vol. 34, RSR)

The U.S. government’s position on reprocessing changed in 1974 when India exploded

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in 2009, and is “no longer pursuing domestic commercial reprocessing.” 157

Waste

Observation Two: Waste

In the short term US nuclear waste is stored on-site.

Galbraith 11 (Kate, Staff Writer, “A New Urgency to the Problem of Storing Nuclear Waste”, New York Times, 11-27-11, http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/28/business/energy-environment/a-new-urgency-to-the-problem-of-storing-nuclear-waste.html, RSR)

Other countries are also looking at waste in new ways in the post-Fukushima

AND

disposal site for spent fuel , near the remote northeastern village of Bure.

On-site storage is dangerous – storage pools are vulnerable to accidents.

Alvarez 12 (Robert, Senior Scholar at IPS, where he is currently focused on nuclear disarmament, environmental, and energy policies, “Improving Spent-Fuel Storage at Nuclear Reactors”, Winter, ISSUES IN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, RSR)

Until the NAS completes its study, if it agrees to do so, the

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area declined by almost half because of migration to areas of lower contamination.

The densely packed fuel is enough to trigger a full scaled meltdown – Fukushima proves.

Kinitisch 11 (Eli, Reporter at Science Magazine, “Waste Panel Expected To Back Interim Storage”, Science Magazine, Vol. 333, 7-8-11, RSR)

In any case, experts agree, some new plan for waste storage is essential

AND

calls for an expert panel at the National Academies to tackle the subject.

These catastrophic meltdowns cause extinction – reactors contain 100x the radiation of nuclear bombs.

Lendman 11 (Stephen, Research Associate of the Centre for Research on Globalization,

03/ 13, “Nuclear Meltdown in Japan,”, The People’s Voice http://www.thepeoplesvoice.org/TPV3/Voices.php/2011/03/13/nuclear-meltdown-in-japan, accessed 8-2-12, RSR)

Reuters said the 1995 Kobe quake caused $100 billion in damage, up to

AND

entire region. "It could be, literally, an apocalyptic event.

On-site waste storage is the EASIEST target for a terrorist attack – it’s the most vulnerable.

Rogers 6 (Ken, Professor and Chair of the Political Science Department at Coastal Carolina University, “Radioactive Waste Storage/Disposal Policy: A Paradigm for Homeland Security and Energy Security”, Midsouth Political Science Review, 2006, Vol. 8, RSR)

The inability of U.S. policymakers to come to grips with the problem

AND

is not to the reactors, but the radioactive waste that they generate.

On site storage vulnerable to terrorist theft – fewer security measures due to assumed radioactive safeguards.

Bunn 9 (Matthew, Associate Professor at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government, “Reducing the greatest risks of nuclear theft and terrorism”, Daedalus, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Fall, RSR)

A building with nuclear material that terrorists could readily make into a nuclear bomb needs

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also be able to make a bomb from reactor-grade plutonium. 6

Nuclear terrorism is likely and causes extinction – security experts agree.

Rhodes 9 (Richard, affiliate of the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University, Former visiting scholar at Harvard and MIT, and author of “The Making of the Atomic Bomb” which won the Pulitzer Prize in Nonfiction, National Book Award, and National Book Critics Circle Award, “Reducing the nuclear threat: The argument for public safety” 12-14, http://www.thebulletin.org/web-edition/op-eds/reducing-the-nuclear-threat-the-argument-public-safety, RSR)

The response was very different among nuclear and national security experts when Indiana Republican Sen

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nothing to do with those attacks in the name of sending a message.

In the long term, waste will be stored at Yucca – only option.

Tollefson 11 (Jeff, former Knight fellow in science journalism at MIT,  “Battle of Yucca Mountain rages on”, Nature, Vol. 473, No. 266, 5-19-11, RSR)

The commission intends to issue a draft report in July and a final one next

AND

DC. “And nobody knows how many lives have been used up.”

Yucca explosion is likely - earthquakes, volcanoes, and ground water

Warrick 98 (Joby, Staff, At Nevada Nuclear Waste Site, The Issue Is One of Liquidity; Studies Citing Risk of Water Seepage Imperil Yucca Mountain Project, The Washington Post, December 15, p. A3)

More recent studies raised different kinds of concerns. A report in March by the

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can go back and measure them again. They're very easy to verify."

Yucca explosion results in extinction – top geologists agree.

Broad 90 (William, NYT Staff, The New York Times, November 18)

One scientist, however, has quietly but persistently warned that this vision of a

AND

If you want to envision the end of the world, that's it."

Reprocessing would remove the entire waste problem – all of the waste we currently store can be reused.

Bastin 8 (Clinton, Former Chemical Engineer at the Atomic Energy Commission, 21^st Century Science and Technology, “We Need to Reprocess Spent Nuclear Fuel, And Can Do It Safely, At Reasonable Cost”, 2008, http://www.21stcenturysciencetech.com/Articles%202008/ Summer_2008/Reprocessing.pdf, RSR)

The concept of used nuclear fuel as “nuclear waste” is a fiction created

AND

fabricated directly into new reactor fuel assemblies to be burned in nuclear plants.

Reprocessing solves the blow up of Yucca Mountain.

Broad 95 (William, NYT staff, Scientists fear atomic explosion of buried waste, The New York Times, March 5, p. 1)

Dr. Bowman says the explosion thesis is alive and well. On Friday he

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in granite, where migration of materials would be slower and more difficult.

Peak Oil

Observation Three: Peak oil

Peak oil coming soon – newest data proves.

Worstall 12 (Tim, Contributor, “Peak Oil is Here: Now What?”, Forbes, 5-2-12, http://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2012/05/02/peak-oil-is-here-now-what/, RSR)

At least peak oil is here if I’ve understood what the peak oil argument is

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oil and gas producers could reach close to US$100/bbl.

Reprocessing solves peak oil - nuclear energy can help hydrogen replace oil in the transportation sector.

Choppin 6 (Gregory, Robert O. Lawton Distinguished Professor of Chemistry at Florida State University, “Technology for Nuclear Reprocessing: Present and Future Directions”, Separation Science and Technology, 41: 1955–1963, 2006, RSR)

At present, internationally, nuclear power has reached a good level of scientific and

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radioactive fission products for other use would avoid their disposal in the repositories.

Reprocessing increases nuclear energy’s share in the market, displacing oil.

Szabo, J.D., George Washington University Law School; Financial Analyst, United States

Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), ‘10

[Aaron, 2010, “Reprocessing: The Future Of Nuclear Waste”, Temple Journal of Science, Technology and Environmental Law, Vol. 29, No. 2, RSR]

Energy independence has been a longstanding concern for the United States. Beginning with President

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provide the United States with more stability and independence from possible hostile countries.

Peak oil kills economic recovery – outweighs resiliency and safeguards.

Zakaria 12 (Fareed, host of CNN foreign affairs program, “Zakaria: Why oil prices keep rising”, http://globalpublicsquare.blogs.cnn.com/2012/03/09/zakaria-why-oil-prices-keep-rising/)

The rising price of oil is the single most serious threat to the global economic

AND

The reason they are so high is really Iran, Iran and Iran.

40 year study proves oil key to the global economy.

Li 12 (Mingqi, Econ professor at the University of Utah, ““Here's Why The Economy Is More Vulnerable Than Ever To Oil Price Shocks”, http://www.businessinsider.com/heres-why-the-economy-is-more-vulnerable-than-ever-to-oil-price-shocks-2012-3)

This paper examines the impact of oil price changes on global economic growth. Unlike

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and possibly an insurmountable speed limit on the pace of global economic expansion.

Economic decline causes global war.

Royal 10 (Jeddiah, Director of Cooperative Threat Reduction at the U.S. Department of Defense, “Economic Integration, Economic Signalling And The Problem Of Economic Crises”, in Economics of War and Peace: Economic, Legal and Political Perspectives, ed. Goldsmith and Brauer, p. 213-215)

Second, on a dyadic level. Copeland's (1996. 2000) theory of

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popularity, are statistically linked to an increase in the use of force.

Oil depletion causes resources wars

Howard 9 (Roger, “Peak Oil and Strategic Resource Wars.” Futurist, 00163317, September/October 2009, Vol. 43, Issue 5) SH

At various points over the coming decades, many of the world's key oil producers

AND

democracy and political freedom or increase tension with neighboring states in unexpected ways.

Resource wars cause extinction.

Lendman 7 (Stephen Lendman, Research Associate of the Centre for Research on Globalization, “Resource Wars - Can We Survive Them?,” Rense.com, 6-6-7, pg. http://www.rense.com/general76/resrouce.htm)

With the world's energy supplies finite, the US heavily dependent on imports, and

AND

, or at least a big part of it, would have survived.

Plan Text

Thus the plan: The United States Federal Government should provide a twenty-percent investment tax credit for the deployment of domestic nuclear fuel recycling.

Solvency[P1] [P2] 

Observation Four: Solvency

Tax incentives would solve for reprocessing – makes it commercially more desirable.

Lagus 5 (Todd, 2005 WISE Intern, University of Minnesota, WISE, “Reprocessing of Spent Nuclear Fuel: A Policy Analysis” http://www.wise-intern.org/journal/2005/lagus.pdf, RSR)

The economic analysis shows that the reprocessing or even the once through nuclear cycle is

AND

is an unobtrusive option that could help the industry by easing capital costs.

Government investment key – necessary to mitigate risks from government regulations.

Selyukh 10 (Alina, Staff Writer, “Nuclear waste issue could be solved, if...”, 8-17-10, Reuters,

http://www.reuters.com/article/2010/08/17/us-nuclear-waste-recycling-idUSTRE67G0NM20100817, RSR)

Since the U.S. agency declared spent fuel reprocessing too costly, U

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to mitigate government-imposed risks," he said of the regulatory regime.

Government investment necessary – provides appropriate risk mitigation and shortens the timeframe for completion.

IAEA 8 (International Atomic Energy Agency, “Spent Fuel Reprocessing Options”, August 2008, RSR)

With the expected high costs and significant risks involved in constructing new nuclear facilities,

AND

, equity protection plans, tax credits, etc.) with government entities

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1AC
Inherency
Observation One: Inherency
Nuclear renaissance now – US subsidizing the industry
Worthington 12 (David Worthington, February 9, 2012, The U.S. nuclear renaissance has begun  , Smart Planet, http://www.smartplanet.com/blog/intelligent-energy/the-us-nuclear-renaissance-has-begun/13058) JD

There are cooling towers on the horizon in the United States. The nuclear renaissance
AND
million homes at a cost of US$14 billion, CNN reported.
But, the US is not reversing course on reprocessing.
Saillan 10 (Charles, attorney with the New Mexico Environment Department, Harvard Environmental Law Review, 2010, “DISPOSAL OF SPENT NUCLEAR FUEL IN THE UNITED STATES AND EUROPE: A PERSISTENT ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEM”, Vol. 34, RSR)

The U.S. government’s position on reprocessing changed in 1974 when India exploded
AND
in 2009, and is “no longer pursuing domestic commercial reprocessing.” 157
Observation 2
Observation Two: Waste
In the short term US nuclear waste is stored on-site.
Galbraith 11 (Kate, Staff Writer, “A New Urgency to the Problem of Storing Nuclear Waste”, New York Times, 11-27-11, http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/28/business/energy-environment/a-new-urgency-to-the-problem-of-storing-nuclear-waste.html, RSR)

Other countries are also looking at waste in new ways in the post-Fukushima
AND
disposal site for spent fuel , near the remote northeastern village of Bure.
On-site storage is dangerous – storage pools are vulnerable to accidents.
Alvarez 12 (Robert, Senior Scholar at IPS, where he is currently focused on nuclear disarmament, environmental, and energy policies, “Improving Spent-Fuel Storage at Nuclear Reactors”, Winter, ISSUES IN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, RSR)

Until the NAS completes its study, if it agrees to do so, the
AND
area declined by almost half because of migration to areas of lower contamination.
The densely packed fuel is enough to trigger a full scaled meltdown – Fukushima proves.
Kinitisch 11 (Eli, Reporter at Science Magazine, “Waste Panel Expected To Back Interim Storage”, Science Magazine, Vol. 333, 7-8-11, RSR)
In any case, experts agree, some new plan for waste storage is essential
AND
calls for an expert panel at the National Academies to tackle the subject.
These catastrophic meltdowns cause extinction – reactors contain 100x the radiation of nuclear bombs.
Lendman 11 (Stephen, Research Associate of the Centre for Research on Globalization,
03/ 13, “Nuclear Meltdown in Japan,”, The People’s Voice http://www.thepeoplesvoice.org/TPV3/Voices.php/2011/03/13/nuclear-meltdown-in-japan, accessed 8-2-12, RSR)

Reuters said the 1995 Kobe quake caused $100 billion in damage, up to
AND
entire region. "It could be, literally, an apocalyptic event.
On-site waste storage is the EASIEST target for a terrorist attack – it’s the most vulnerable.
Rogers 6 (Ken, Professor and Chair of the Political Science Department at Coastal Carolina University, “Radioactive Waste Storage/Disposal Policy: A Paradigm for Homeland Security and Energy Security”, Midsouth Political Science Review, 2006, Vol. 8, RSR)

The inability of U.S. policymakers to come to grips with the problem
AND
is not to the reactors, but the radioactive waste that they generate.
On site storage vulnerable to terrorist theft – fewer security measures due to assumed radioactive safeguards.
Bunn 9 (Matthew, Associate Professor at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government, “Reducing the greatest risks of nuclear theft and terrorism”, Daedalus, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Fall, RSR)

A building with nuclear material that terrorists could readily make into a nuclear bomb needs
AND
also be able to make a bomb from reactor-grade plutonium. 6
Nuclear terrorism is likely and causes extinction – security experts agree.
Rhodes 9 (Richard, affiliate of the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University, Former visiting scholar at Harvard and MIT, and author of “The Making of the Atomic Bomb” which won the Pulitzer Prize in Nonfiction, National Book Award, and National Book Critics Circle Award, “Reducing the nuclear threat: The argument for public safety” 12-14, http://www.thebulletin.org/web-edition/op-eds/reducing-the-nuclear-threat-the-argument-public-safety, RSR)

The response was very different among nuclear and national security experts when Indiana Republican Sen
AND
nothing to do with those attacks in the name of sending a message.
In the long term, waste will be stored at Yucca – only option.
Tollefson 11 (Jeff, former Knight fellow in science journalism at MIT,  “Battle of Yucca Mountain rages on”, Nature, Vol. 473, No. 266, 5-19-11, RSR)

The commission intends to issue a draft report in July and a final one next
AND
DC. “And nobody knows how many lives have been used up.”
Yucca explosion is likely - earthquakes, volcanoes, and ground water
Warrick 98 (Joby, Staff, At Nevada Nuclear Waste Site, The Issue Is One of Liquidity; Studies Citing Risk of Water Seepage Imperil Yucca Mountain Project, The Washington Post, December 15, p. A3)

More recent studies raised different kinds of concerns. A report in March by the
AND
can go back and measure them again. They're very easy to verify."
Yucca explosion results in extinction – top geologists agree.
Broad 90 (William, NYT Staff, The New York Times, November 18)

One scientist, however, has quietly but persistently warned that this vision of a
AND
If you want to envision the end of the world, that's it."
Reprocessing would remove the waste problem – the waste we currently store can be reused
Bastin 8 (Clinton, Former Chemical Engineer at the Atomic Energy Commission, 21st Century Science and Technology, “We Need to Reprocess Spent Nuclear Fuel, And Can Do It Safely, At Reasonable Cost”, 2008, http://www.21stcenturysciencetech.com/Articles%202008/ Summer_2008/Reprocessing.pdf, RSR)

The concept of used nuclear fuel as “nuclear waste” is a fiction created
AND
fabricated directly into new reactor fuel assemblies to be burned in nuclear plants.
Reprocessing solves the blow up of Yucca Mountain.
Broad 95 (William, NYT staff, Scientists fear atomic explosion of buried waste, The New York Times, March 5, p. 1)

Dr. Bowman says the explosion thesis is alive and well. On Friday he
AND
in granite, where migration of materials would be slower and more difficult.
Observation 3
Observation Three: Peak oil
Peak oil coming soon – newest data proves.
Worstall 12 (Tim, Contributor, “Peak Oil is Here: Now What?”, Forbes, 5-2-12, http://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2012/05/02/peak-oil-is-here-now-what/, RSR)

At least peak oil is here if I’ve understood what the peak oil argument is
AND
oil and gas producers could reach close to US$100/bbl.
Reprocessing solves peak oil - nuclear energy can help hydrogen replace oil in the transportation sector.
Choppin 6 (Gregory, Robert O. Lawton Distinguished Professor of Chemistry at Florida State University, “Technology for Nuclear Reprocessing: Present and Future Directions”, Separation Science and Technology, 41: 1955–1963, 2006, RSR)

At present, internationally, nuclear power has reached a good level of scientific and
AND
radioactive fission products for other use would avoid their disposal in the repositories.
Reprocessing increases nuclear energy’s share in the market, displacing oil.
Szabo 10 (Aaron, J.D., George Washington University Law School; Financial Analyst, United States
Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC),  2010, “Reprocessing: The Future Of Nuclear Waste”, Temple Journal of Science, Technology and Environmental Law, Vol. 29, No. 2, RSR)

Energy independence has been a longstanding concern for the United States. Beginning with President
AND
provide the United States with more stability and independence from possible hostile countries.
Peak oil kills economic recovery – outweighs resiliency and safeguards.
Zakaria 12 (Fareed, host of CNN foreign affairs program, “Zakaria: Why oil prices keep rising”, http://globalpublicsquare.blogs.cnn.com/2012/03/09/zakaria-why-oil-prices-keep-rising/)

The rising price of oil is the single most serious threat to the global economic
AND
The reason they are so high is really Iran, Iran and Iran.
40 year study proves oil key to the global economy
Li 12 (Mingqi, Econ professor at the University of Utah, ““Here's Why The Economy Is More Vulnerable Than Ever To Oil Price Shocks”, http://www.businessinsider.com/heres-why-the-economy-is-more-vulnerable-than-ever-to-oil-price-shocks-2012-3)

This paper examines the impact of oil price changes on global economic growth. Unlike
AND
and possibly an insurmountable speed limit on the pace of global economic expansion.
Economic collapse causes global war
Royal 10 (Jeddiah, Director of Cooperative Threat Reduction at the U.S. Department of Defense, “Economic Integration, Economic Signalling And The Problem Of Economic Crises”, in Economics of War and Peace: Economic, Legal and Political Perspectives, ed. Goldsmith and Brauer, p. 213-215)

Second, on a dyadic level. Copeland's (1996. 2000) theory of
AND
popularity, are statistically linked to an increase in the use of force.
Oil depletion causes resources wars
Howard 9 (Roger, “Peak Oil and Strategic Resource Wars.” Futurist, 00163317, September/October 2009, Vol. 43, Issue 5) SH

At various points over the coming decades, many of the world's key oil producers
AND
democracy and political freedom or increase tension with neighboring states in unexpected ways.
Resource wars cause extinction.
Lendman 7 (Stephen Lendman, Research Associate of the Centre for Research on Globalization, “Resource Wars - Can We Survive Them?,” Rense.com, 6-6-7, pg. http://www.rense.com/general76/resrouce.htm)

With the world's energy supplies finite, the US heavily dependent on imports, and
AND
, or at least a big part of it, would have survived.

Plan Text
Thus the plan: The United States Federal Government should provide a twenty-percent investment tax credit for the deployment of domestic nuclear fuel recycling.
Solvency
Observation Four: Solvency
Tax incentives would solve for reprocessing – makes it commercially more desirable
Lagus 5 (Todd, 2005 WISE Intern, University of Minnesota, WISE, “Reprocessing of Spent Nuclear Fuel: A Policy Analysis” http://www.wise-intern.org/journal/2005/lagus.pdf, RSR)

The economic analysis shows that the reprocessing or even the once through nuclear cycle is
AND
is an unobtrusive option that could help the industry by easing capital costs.
Government investment key – necessary to mitigate risks from government regulations.
Selyukh 10 (Alina, Staff Writer, “Nuclear waste issue could be solved, if...”, 8-17-10, Reuters,
http://www.reuters.com/article/2010/08/17/us-nuclear-waste-recycling-idUSTRE67G0NM20100817, RSR)

Since the U.S. agency declared spent fuel reprocessing too costly, U
AND
to mitigate government-imposed risks," he said of the regulatory regime.
Government investment necessary – provides appropriate risk mitigation and shortens the timeframe for completion.
IAEA 8 (International Atomic Energy Agency, “Spent Fuel Reprocessing Options”, August 2008, RSR)

With the expected high costs and significant risks involved in constructing new nuclear facilities,
AND
, equity protection plans, tax credits, etc.) with government entities. 

Federal signal is key —private companies see federal support for reprocessing in foreign countries, they want the same in the U.S.
Koenig ’11 – St. Louis Beacon Washington correspondent
(Robert Koenig, “From Yucca to reprocessing, nuclear waste options spark hot debates”, St. Louis Beacon, 3-29-2011, https://www.stlbeacon.org/#!/content/16591/from_yucca_to_reprocessing_nuclear_waste_options_spark_hot_debates_)
In the early days of nuclear energy, the ideal solution to reducing the tonnage
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have done it with federal funds, as a matter of federal policy."

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Romney will win – debates propel him ahead of Obama
Ferrechio, Chief Congressional Correspondent, 10-4 (Susan, Romney moves swiftly to capitalize on debate success, Washington Examiner, 4 October 2012, http://washingtonexaminer.com/romney-moves-swiftly-to-capitalize-on-debate-success/article/2509926#.UG9qB6RYt8w, da 10-5-12)

The Republican nominee has been virtually even with Obama in national tracking polls, and
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After the debate, Reagan's standing rose by 6 points and he beat Carter
Romney will win – new polls show he’s making headways in swing states.
The Hill, 10-5
Justin Sink and Jonathan Easley, “Polls show Romney making headway in swing states”
http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/polls/260511-polls-show-romney-making-swing-state-charge, RSR
A set of new swing-state polls show Mitt Romney making big gains in
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. Rasmussen, meanwhile, gave Romney a 49-48 percent lead.
Turn: Romney wins now, but Nevada is key.
Joseph 10-4 (Cameron, GOP takes new tack: Romney can still win while losing Ohio, The Hill, 4 October 2012, http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/260133-gop-takes-new-tack-romney-can-still-win-while-losing-ohio, da 10-5-12)

“Ohio is extremely important but I also know that we have other good things
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even with Obama or only slightly trailing in Virginia, Iowa and Colorado.
Plan gives Obama Nevada - massively supported by Nevada voters
Whaley ’12
(Sean Whaley, “Gov. Sandoval Says Nevada Does Not Want Nuclear Waste, But New Poll Shows Support For Research Facility”, Nevada News Bureau, 3-12-2012, http://www.nevadanewsbureau.com/2012/03/12/gov-sandoval-says-nevada-does-not-want-nuclear-waste-but-new-poll-shows-support-for-research-facility/)
Sandoval’s letter comes just as a new poll commissioned by Nevadans 4 Carbon Free Energy
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energy, establish new export industries and create thousands of jobs for Nevadans.”
Turn: Plan key to Florida which is key to the election – addresses voter concerns regarding energy and the economy.
Whitman and Avilla, ‘12
Christine and Karen, “Nuclear energy = green jobs, economic growth in Fla., beyond”, The Orlando Sentinel, 6-22-12,
http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/2012-06-22/opinion/os-ed-nuclear-energy-florida-jobs-062212-20120621_1_nuclear-energy-green-jobs-hispanic-community, RSR
We all know how critical Florida is to the outcome of this year's election.
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-paying jobs, sustained economic growth and clean, affordable energy options.
Funding now. Worthington ev. says subsidies now. Even if no new reactors, there’s already the perception of Obama pushing.
Turn: Subsidies for nuclear power popular with the American public.
Bisconti, PhD and President of Bisconti Research Inc., ‘12
Ann Stoufer, “High Expectations for Nuclear Energy”, NEI, RSR
Strong majorities support renewing the licenses of nuclear power plants that meet federal safety standards
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public supports loan guarantees for the development of these low-carbon sources.
Turn: The plan will be spun as job creation.
Ling, NYT Staff Writer, ‘9
Katherine, New York Times, 5-19-2009, “Is the solution to the U.S. nuclear waste problem in France?”,
http://www.nytimes.com/cwire/2009/05/18/18climatewire-is-the-solution-to-the-us-nuclear-waste-prob-12208.html?pagewanted=all Published, RCM
The outgoing Bush administration tested the political reaction to reprocessing in 2006 and found 11 communities that showed interest in having a reprocessing facility. The approach promised high-paying jobs for hosting a regional intermediate highly radioactive nuclear waste site, a sort of "energy park."
Personality, not policy, matters more to swing voters
Martin ’12 (Jonathan, 2012, “Why Barack Obama is winning”, http://dyn.politico.com/printstory.cfm?uuid=978F5153-3BFA-42E3-83CA-54E1A0C143DF)

The phenomenon is the result of three powerful factors, according to interviews with some
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point, they need to come to the conclusion that it’s not worked.”

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US stance against reprocessing hurts relations with South Korea and results in South Korean nuclearization.
Yurman, Staff Writer, ‘12
Dan, “Revisiting Reprocessing in South Korea”, ANS Nuclear Café, 8-2-12,
http://ansnuclearcafe.org/2012/08/02/revisiting-reprocessing-in-south-korea/, RSR
Comes now the request by the South Korean government, first aired in October 2010
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nuclear arsenal as a shield against aggression from its neighbor to the north.
US-SoKo relations k2 regional stability and global security
Clinton 10 Hillary Rodham Clinton, “America’s Engagement in the Asia-Pacific”, October 28, 2010, http://www.state.gov/secretary/rm/2010/10/150141.htm

This year also marked a milestone with another ally: the 60th anniversary of the
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Trade Agreement by the time of the G-20 meeting in Seoul.
East Asian instability leads to World War III
Knight Ridder 2k
(Jonathon S. Landay, “Top administration officials warn stakes for U.S. are high in Asian conflicts”, 3-11, L/N)
Few if any experts think China and Taiwan, North Korea and South Korea,
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no institutionalized security mechanism in place. There are elements for potential disaster."
South Korean nuclearization leads to East Asian prolif.
Chanlett-Avery and Squassoni 6 (Emma (Analyst in Asian Affairs, Foreign Affairs, Defense, and Trade) and Sharon (Specialist in National Defense, Foreign Affairs, Defense, and Trade Division), “North Korea’s Nuclear Test: Motivations, Implications, and U.S. Options”, http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/nuke/RL33709.pdf)
Many regional experts fear that the nuclear test will stimulate an arms race in the
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there is evidence of past experiments with plutonium processing for both countries.24
East Asian arms race will cause extinction.
Ogura and Oh 97 (Toshimaru and Ingyu, Professors of Economics, April, “Nuclear clouds over the Korean peninsula and Japan,” 1997Accessed July 10, 2008 via Lexis-Nexis (Monthly Review))
North Korea, South Korea, and Japan have achieved quasi- or virtual nuclear
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hot conflict among these countries would threaten to escalate into a global conflagration.

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Nuclear leadership in reprocessing is key to overall technical leadership – brain drain.
Martin, Chairman of the Nuclear Energy Advisory Committee, and Ahearne, Vice-Chairman, 8 (William F. and John, Nuclear Energy: Policies and Technology for the 21st Century, Nuclear Energy Advisory Committee, November 2008, http://www.ne.doe.gov/neac/neacPDFs/NEAC_Final_Report_Web%20Version.pdf, da 9-1-12)

The consequences of a weakened nuclear infrastructure in the United States include reduced domestic capability
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it is meeting U.S. needs in the nuclear fuel cycle.
Technological leadership necessary to maintain US heg – our IL explains the past five centuries of global hegemons.
Drezner 1 (Daniel Drezner (professor of international politics at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University) 2001 “State structure, technological leadership and the maintenance of hegemony” http://www.danieldrezner.com/research/tech.pdf)

In this decade, proponents of globalization argue that because information and capital are mobile
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leading to a period of strife until a new hegemonic power is found.
Loss of heg results in extinction.
Barnett 11 (Thomas, Professor, Warfare Analysis and Research Dept – U.S. Naval War College, “The New Rules: Leadership Fatigue Puts U.S., and Globalization, at Crossroads,” March 7, 2011, http://www.worldpoliticsreview.com/articles/8099/the-new-rules-leadership-fatigue-puts-u-s-and-globalization-at-crossroads)
Events in Libya are a further reminder for Americans that we stand at a crossroads
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a profound and persistent reduction in battle deaths from state-based conflicts.

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Inherency
Observation One: Inherency
Obama pushing nuclear incentives now.
Pistilli 12 (Melissa, reporting on market-shaking news in the resource and mining investment sector with Resource Investing News since 2008, 10-11-12, “Nuclear Power Prominent in US Presidential Candidates’ Energy Policies” 10/11 http://uraniuminvestingnews.com/12783/nuclear-power-united-states-energy-policies-romney-obama-election.html)

The Obama administration’s energy policy supports the expansion of nuclear energy. Under Obama,
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the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the University of Tennessee.
There’s global expansion of nuclear now – Fukushima doesn’t matter.
Marketwire 12 (5/3/12, – Part of the Paragon Report on uranium ore stock future
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/nuclear-renaissance-back-track-122000381.html)

NEW YORK, NY--(Marketwire -05/03/12)- Last year
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," Areva SA's Chief Commercial Officer Ruben Lazo said in a previous interview.
But, the US is not reversing course on reprocessing.
Saillan 10 (Charles, attorney with the New Mexico Environment Department, Harvard Environmental Law Review, 2010, “DISPOSAL OF SPENT NUCLEAR FUEL IN THE UNITED STATES AND EUROPE: A PERSISTENT ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEM”, Vol. 34, RSR)

The U.S. government’s position on reprocessing changed in 1974 when India exploded
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in 2009, and is “no longer pursuing domestic commercial reprocessing.” 157
Observation 2
Observation Two: Peak Uranium
Peak uranium is coming by 2016.
Keen 12 (Kip, Uranium supply crunch by 2016 - nuclear expert says, Mineweb, 24 January 2012, http://www.mineweb.co.za/mineweb/view/mineweb/en/page72103?oid=143915andsn=Detailandpid=102055, da 8-27-12)

A nuclear expert gave uranium supply three more years - at most - before it
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in his "downside" analysis the uranium deficit still comes by 2015.
Increased domestic production of uranium is key to our tritium supply – foreign sources cannot solve.
Rowny 12 edward, retired Lieutenant General, was chief negotiator with the rank of ambassador in the START arms control negotiations with the Soviet Union and has served as an arms control adviser and negotiator for five presidents, Roll Call, 3-29-2012,
http://www.rollcall.com/issues/57_118/edward-rowny-safe-uranium-enrichment-should-be-us-priority-213505-1.html

Oil may grab headlines, but nuclear power for civilian use is growing, as
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uranium needed to produce tritium, our national security will be at risk.
That’s key to the nuclear deterrent.
Gaffney 10 (Frank, founder and president of the Center for Security Policy, “There Goes the Nuclear Deterrent”, Breitbart, 10-14-2010, http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2010/10/14/There-Goes-the-Nuclear-Deterrent)

The House Armed Services Committee warned in 1993 that the deterrent was being subjected to
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warheads must be regularly refueled in order for those weapons to remain operable.
Nuclear deterrence necessary to deter rogue states, CBW attacks, power challengers, and allied proliferation - impact is extinction.
Schneider 9 (Mark, Senior Analyst with the National Institute for Public Policy, May/April 2009 “The Future of the US Nuclear Deterrent” Comparative Strategy, p345-360)

According to the Pentagon’s Quadrennial Defense Review, the United States must maintain a “
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legacy arms control and its constraints upon U.S. conventional capabilities.
Adoption of reprocessing solves U.S. uranium needs
Sayre 11 (Edwin, engineering consultant, “Commercial Value of Used Nuclear Fuel Reprocessed with Elements Separated, Purified and Reduced to Metals”, NIST, 2011, http://www.nist.gov/tip/wp/pswp/upload/164_commercial_value_used_nuclear_fuel_reprocessed.pdf)

The commercial value of the elements in the used fuel as indicated in Table 1
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the next 500 years with the ¶ proper technical planning and program operation.
Observation 3
Observation Three: Warming
Warming is real and anthropogenic – carbon dioxide increase, polar ice records, melting glaciers, sea level rise all prove.
Prothero 12 (Donald, Lecturer in Geobiology at Cal Tech and Professor of Geology at Occidental College, 3-1-12, “How We Know Global Warming is Real and Human Caused," Skeptic, vol 17 no 2, EBSCO)

Converging Lines of Evidence¶ How do we know that global warming is real and
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pinnacles, but the rest of these drowned cities would lie deep underwater.
Scientific consensus goes aff – 97% of the most qualified scientists in the field agree
Anderegg, et al. 10 (William (Department of Biology, Stanford University); James Prall (Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto); Jacob Harold (William and Flora Hewlett Foundation); and Stephen Schneider (Department of Biology, Stanford University and Woods Institute for the Environment, Stanford University), “Expert credibility in climate change”, PNAS, Vol. 17, No. 27, July 6, 2010, RSR
Note: ACC = Anthropogenic Climate Change, UE = those unconvinced by evidence and CE = those convinced by evidence.)

The UE group comprises only 2% of the top 50 climate researchers as ranked
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discussions in media, policy, and public forums regarding anthropogenic climate change.
We must act quickly with long term technological innovation to avoid the irreversible climate change triggered by 2°C.
Peters, et al. 12 (Glen (Center for International Climate and Environmental
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C”, Nature Climate Change, 12-2-12, RSR)

It is important to regularly re-assess the relevance of emissions scenarios in light
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the goal of remaining below 2 °C will very soon become unachievable.
Scenario one is biodiversity
Warming and CO2 emissions kill biodiversity – newest research shows that ecosystems are on the brink due to human activity.
Barnosky et al 12 (Anthony (Department of Integrative Biology, University of California
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a state shift in Earth’s biosphere”, Nature, May 2012, RSR)

As a result of human activities, direct local-scale forcings have accumulated to
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social unrest, economic instability and loss of human life could result 64 .
The risk of keystone species loss leads to extinction – outweighs on reversibility.
Chen 2k (Jim, Professor of Law at University of Minnesota and Dean of Law School at Louisville, “Globalization and Its Losers”:, 9 Minn. J. Global Trade 157’ LexisNexis Legal)

Conscious decisions to allow the extinction of a species or  the destruction of an entire
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- in ten mil-  lion years, perhaps a hundred million.348
Scenario two is agriculture
Despite CO2 fertilization, massive rise of temperature due to warming causes food shortages —the result is extinction.
Strom 7 (Robert, Professor Emeritus of planetary sciences in the Department of Planetary Sciences at the University of Arizona, studied climate change for 15 years, the former Director of the Space Imagery Center, a NASA Regional Planetary Image Facility, “Hot House”, SpringerLink, p. 211-216)

 THE future consequences of global warming are the least known aspect of the problem
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starvation, and political and economic chaos with all their ramifications for civilization.
Reprocessing solves warming in two ways:
First, reprocessing is key to a revived U.S. clean energy program that provides leadership to win agreements to cut emissions and solve warming.
Roberts 4 (Paul, Energy Expert and Writer for Harpers, The End of Oil, pg. 325-326)

Politically, a new U.S. energy policy would send a powerful message
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business prospects in China that it now has its own vehicles in Beijing.”
Second, only allowing for reprocessing allows for nuclear power to transition to a carbon free economy fast enough to avoid catastrophic warming – best modeling flows aff.
Chakravorty et al. 12 (Ujjayant (Professor and Canada Research Chair, Alberta School of Business and Department of Economics); Bertrand Magne (OECD Environment Directorate, Paris, France); Michel Moreaux (Emeritus Professor and IDEI Researcher, Toulouse School of Economics, University of Toulouse), “RESOURCE USE UNDER CLIMATE STABILIZATION: CAN NUCLEAR POWER PROVIDE CLEAN ENERGY?”, Journal of Public Economic Theory, Vol. 14, Issue 2, 2012, RSR)

This paper applies a model with price-induced substitution across resources to examine the
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lead to a steady state where nuclear energy plays an important role. 31
This is especially true now – we need nuclear power in the interim since renewables are not progressing fast enough.
Harvey 12 (Fiona, Environment Correspondent, “Nuclear power is only solution to climate change, says Jeffrey Sachs”, The Guardian, 5-3-12,
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/may/03/nuclear-power-solution-climate-change, RSR)

Combating climate change will require an expansion of nuclear power, respected economist Jeffrey Sachs
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of energy, unless the effects of the climate were taken into account.
US leadership on nuclear reprocessing leads to a spillover of the technology internationally.
Acton 9 (James, J. associate in the Nonproliferation Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International  Peace, Survival, Vol. 51, No. 4, “Nuclear Power, Disarmament and Technological Restraint”, RSR)

Thus, not only does reprocessing clearly not help with facilitating take back, but
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the nuclear RandD community – that support the development of reprocessing.
Plan Text
Thus the plan: The United States Federal Government should provide a twenty-percent investment tax credit for the deployment of domestic nuclear fuel recycling.
Solvency
Observation Four: Solvency
Tax incentives would solve for reprocessing – makes it commercially more desirable
Lagus 5 (Todd, 2005 WISE Intern, University of Minnesota, WISE, “Reprocessing of Spent Nuclear Fuel: A Policy Analysis” http://www.wise-intern.org/journal/2005/lagus.pdf, RSR)

The economic analysis shows that the reprocessing or even the once through nuclear cycle is
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is an unobtrusive option that could help the industry by easing capital costs.
Government investment key – necessary to mitigate risks from government regulations.
Selyukh 10 (Alina, Staff Writer, “Nuclear waste issue could be solved, if...”, 8-17-10, Reuters,
http://www.reuters.com/article/2010/08/17/us-nuclear-waste-recycling-idUSTRE67G0NM20100817, RSR)

Since the U.S. agency declared spent fuel reprocessing too costly, U
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to mitigate government-imposed risks," he said of the regulatory regime.
Government investment necessary – provides appropriate risk mitigation and shortens the timeframe for completion.
IAEA 8 (International Atomic Energy Agency, “Spent Fuel Reprocessing Options”, August 2008, RSR)

With the expected high costs and significant risks involved in constructing new nuclear facilities,
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, equity protection plans, tax credits, etc.) with government entities. 

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No shortage of rare earth metals – other countries fill in.
McGrath, Science Writer, ‘12
Matt, “Asian countries challenge China on rare earth minerals”, BBC News, 6-20-12,
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-18508692, RSR
And in Vietnam there are now projects underway in several countries to improve the exploitation
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the whole question becomes irrelevant as we get more non-Chinese supplies."
REE mining and supply increasing- California mountain pass and other new mines outside US prevents bottle neck
Burnett 12
H.Sterling, PhD Applied Philosophy, Senior Fellow and lead analyst of the National Center for Policy Analysis' E-Team -- one of the largest collections of energy and environmental policy experts and scientists, “Finding Sources of Rare Earths beyond China,”
Mountain Pass: An American Rare Earth Mine. California’s Mountain Pass, the only
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, will provide the new supplies of rare earths needed for critical industries.
Increased rare earth metal demand is key to the Chinese economy.
China Daily, ‘12
“Policies of China's rare earth industry”, 6-21-12,
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/cndy/2012-06/21/content_15515969.htm, RSR
The market environment is gradually improving as China is constantly expediting reform in the rare
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-tech industries of other countries, especially those of the developed countries.
Chinese economic collapse leads to nuclear war.
Yee, Associate Professor of Government @ Hong Kong Baptist University, and Storey, Asian-Pacific Center for Security Studies, ‘2
Herbert and Ian, China Threat: Perception, Myths, and Reality, p. 5
The fourth factor contributing to the perception of a china threat is the fear of
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disintegrating China would also pose a threat to its neighbours and the world.
Alt causes – electronics + alternative energy trades off.
Cho, Staff Writer, 9-20
Renee, “Rare earth metals: Will we have enough?”, 9-20-12, Phys.org, RSR
According to a recent Congressional Research Service report, world demand for rare earth metals
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, medical imaging, jet engines, defense technology, and much more.
Data disproves hegemony impacts
Fettweis, 11
Christopher J. Fettweis, Department of Political Science, Tulane University, 9/26/11, Free Riding or Restraint? Examining European Grand Strategy, Comparative Strategy, 30:316–332, EBSCO
It is perhaps worth noting that there is no evidence to support a direct relationship
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global policeman. Those who think otherwise base their view on faith alone.

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No PC loss from pushing nuclear.
Hinckley, adjunct professor of international energy policy at Georgetown University, ‘12
Elias, partner with the law firm of Kilpatrick Townsend and Stockton,
“Hard Choices Ahead for US Energy”, http://www.ourenergypolicy.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/EHinckley-policy-article.pdf
What remains unclear is how policymakers will react. Some amount of policymaking support has
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with no real expectation of new facilities being developed over the near or midterm
Logical policymaker can do both.
Plan popular in Congress – popular among senators like Graham.
Ling 2009 (“Is the solution to the U.S. nuclear waste problem in France?” By KATHERINE LING, ClimateWire, http://www.nytimes.com/cwire/2009/05/18/18climatewire-is-the-solution-to-the-us-nuclear-waste-prob-12208.html?pagewanted=all Published: May 18, 2009) RCM
South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham (R) earlier this month said he would
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-sharing incentives for two reprocessing facilities and other new nuclear reactor incentives.
Graham is a dealmaker
Politico 12 (http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1112/83458.html)
Still, there’s no mistaking the loss is anything short of a dramatic disappointment for
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accomplishments with the desire to protect his conference from being jammed by Democrats.
No link – no reason Obama gets associated with the plan
Cantor and House Republicans support nuclear power
Politico 11 (Cantor: nuclear power 'essential' for U.S. energy needs, http://www.politico.com/blogs/glennthrush/0311/Cantor_nuclear_power_essential_for_US_energy_needs.html)
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor defended nuclear energy production Monday, after a series of
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week that President Barack Obama speed up approval of new nuclear energy facilities.
House resembles the biggest stumbling block to Obama’s agenda.
Politico 12 (http://www.nj.com/us-politics/index.ssf/2012/11/washington_wakes_up_to_deja_vu.html)
The result: The House Republican Conference will be even more conservative and the House
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two years, did not give Obama a new Congress to work with.
Plan key to winning over McCain.
Fahey 9 (New Fuel Source: Nuclear Waste?, Jonathan Fahey, 07.22.09, 06:00 AM EDT http://www.forbes.com/2009/07/21/nuclear-waste-energy-technology-breakthroughs-nuclear.html ) RCM
But the politics of reprocessing have been heating up. Pro-nuclear energy Sens. John McCain, R-Ariz., and Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., pushed Energy Secretary Steven Chu on the issue in the spring. McCain and others suggest one big reason new nuclear reactors are not being built is the uncertainty around where the spent fuel is going to go.
McCain is key to the agenda
CQ Weekly 8 (Rebecca Adams, 11/8/08 (“CQ Weekly Vantage Point: Farewell or a Future? McCain Still Has Role as Bipartisan Dealmaker,” LN)
A likelier scenario, observers say, is thatMcCain will revert to his role as
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strong incentive to spend his last years in the Senate reinforcing that image.”
Obama won’t get the credit – will not be seen as involved in the plan.
Cantor and House Republicans support nuclear power
Politico 11 (Cantor: nuclear power 'essential' for U.S. energy needs, http://www.politico.com/blogs/glennthrush/0311/Cantor_nuclear_power_essential_for_US_energy_needs.html)
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor defended nuclear energy production Monday, after a series of
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week that President Barack Obama speed up approval of new nuclear energy facilities.
House resembles the biggest stumbling block to Obama’s agenda.
Politico 12 (http://www.nj.com/us-politics/index.ssf/2012/11/washington_wakes_up_to_deja_vu.html)
The result: The House Republican Conference will be even more conservative and the House
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two years, did not give Obama a new Congress to work with.
PC not key – furthers partisanship.
Klein, Columnist for the Washington Post, ‘12
Ezra, 3-19-12, “The Unpersuaded; Who listens to a President?”, The New Yorker
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2012/03/19/120319fa_fact_klein#ixzz1pxjQpFdO
The experience helped to crystallize something that Lee had been thinking about. “Most
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might have the perverse effect of making it harder for him to govern.

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Links to the politics - Congress gets pissy about XO’s – backlashes on other issues.
Risen 04 – Clay, assistant editor of The New Republic, August. http://www.prospect.org/web/page.ww?section=rootandname=ViewPrintandarticleId=8140
Congress provides an additional, if somewhat less effective, check on executive orders.
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one issue will respond by limiting other things you want,” says Mayer.
No solvency:
a.)Take years to happen
Mayer 01 (Kenneth, Proff. Of Polt. Science Univ. of Wisconsin, Princeton Univ., “With the Stroke of a Pen: Executive Orders and Presidential Power”, p. 61, http://www.questiaschool.com/read/103282967?title=With%20the%20Stroke%20of%20a%20Pen%3a%20Executive%20Orders%20and%20Presidential%20Power) CBC
In contemporary practice, executive orders typically either originate from the advisory structures within the
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even be derailed over an inability to obtain the necessary consensus or clearances.
b.) Don’t have the same impact a legislation- empirically proven
Paul Light, Brookings, THE PRESIDENT’S AGENDA: DOMESTIC POLICY CHOICE FROM KENNEDY TO CLINTON, 1999, p. 117-8 (PDAF0739)
First, the executive option is generally reserved for routine decisions; it is not
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to agree with executive action if the executive action doesn’t agree with them.
c.) Coordinated political action key - necessary to remove the perceptual ban on reprocessing.
Adams, ‘8
Rod, “What Do You Do About the Waste? Recycle and Reuse”, Clean Technica, 5-29-2008,
http://cleantechnica.com/2008/05/29/what-do-you-do-about-the-waste-recycle-and-reuse/, RSR
The US used to have a plan to recycle our fuel as well, but
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a facility and risk having it turn into a white elephant after an election
Turn: Aggressive presidential power deteriorates rule of law and undermines American democracy.
Shane, 2009: Peter M. - Chair in Law at the Ohio State University’s Moritz College of Law, internationally recognized authority on constitutional and administrative law. May 2009, Excerpt from “Madison’s Nightmare: How Executive Power Threatens American Democracy,” http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/749396.html
Other presidentialist legal thinkers, including advocates for presidentialism under Democratic Administrations, have argued
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the American polity can dominate policy making throughout all our institutions of national government
Rule of law key to freedom and prevents nuclear extinction.
Charles S. Rhyne, Law Day Speech for Voice of America delivered on the first Law Day, May 1, 1958
Law and courts exist to protect every citizen of the United States in his person
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to replace weapons before the dreadful holocaust of nuclear war overtake our people. 

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Links to politics
PCAST 10
President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST), Executive Office of the President, Co-Chaired by John P. Holdren, Assistant to the President for Science and Technology Director, Office of Science and Technology Policy, and Eric Lander, President, Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Nov 2010, REPORT TO THE PRESIDENT ON ACCELERATING THE PACE OF CHANGE IN ENERGY TECHNOLOGIES THROUGH AN INTEGRATED FEDERAL ENERGY POLICY, www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/microsites/ostp/pcast-energy-tech-report.pdf
A QER process would, in some sense, formulate an integrated energy policy for
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key to the development of a sound product that can gain wide support.
No implementation of the QER.
Barlas 12
Stephen, Columnist @ Financial Executive, 1/1, Lexis
"We've known about the dangers of our oil dependence for decades. Richard Nixon
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.S. doesn't even need an energy independence or energy security policy.
White House blocks recommendation solvency
Kirsh 11
Steven T. Kirsh, Bachelor of Science and a Master of Science in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, "Why Obama should meet Till," 9/28/11 http://bravenewclimate.com/2011/09/28/why-obama-should-meet-till/-http://bravenewclimate.com/2011/09/28/why-obama-should-meet-till/
If you delegate this to someone else, nothing will happen. Here’s why. Delegating this letter downward from the White House to someone in DOE to evaluate will result in inaction and no follow up. I know this from past attempts that have been made. It just gets lost and there is no follow up. Every time. The guys at DOE want to do it, but they know that they will get completely stopped by OMB and OSTP. Both Carol Browner and Steven Chu asked former DOE nuclear management what to do about nuclear waste. They were told that using fast reactors and reprocessing was the way to go. But nothing happened. So Chu has given up trying. According to knowledgeable sources, the White House has told DOE in no uncertain terms, “do not build anything nuclear in the US.” It’s not clear who is making these decisions, but many people believe it is being driven by Steven Fetter in OSTP.
Process takes until 2015 or will gut credibility.
PCAST 10
Executive Office of the President, President’s Council of Advisors ¶ on Science and Technology, Nov, 10,
http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/microsites/ostp/pcast-energy-tech-report.pdf
Our most important recommendation is that the Administration establish a new process that can forge
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the advanced energy technologies that will define a robust 21st century energy system.

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Information distortion means the CP links to politics
Kiely, ‘12 2/17/12, Eugene Kiely, Washington assignment editor USA today, “Did Obama ‘Approve’ Bridge Work for Chinese Firms?” http://www.factcheck.org/2012/02/did-obama-approve-bridge-work-for-chinese-firms/
Who’s to blame, if that’s the right word, if the project ends up
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spending taxpayer money on Chinese firms to build U.S. bridges.
States CP are V/I. 1.) No comparative literature compares the action of 50 states simultaneously vs. the federal government. Kills education because it removes substantive clash about energy production. 2.) Fiat abuse – uniformity eliminates the only aff against state action, which is enforcement. Kills competitive equity.
CP can’t solve – federal investment is necessary to remove the perceptual ban on reprocessing.
Adams, ‘8
Rod, “What Do You Do About the Waste? Recycle and Reuse”, Clean Technica, 5-29-2008,
http://cleantechnica.com/2008/05/29/what-do-you-do-about-the-waste-recycle-and-reuse/, RSR
The US used to have a plan to recycle our fuel as well, but
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facility and risk having it turn into a white elephant after an election.
Doesn’t solve the aff – absent the plan, companies will never believe that the federal government will allow reprocessing, so they won’t invest. That’s Selyukh 10.
CP can’t solve - federal preemption of the counterplan exists now
Ostrow, associate professor of law at Hofstra Law School, ’11
(Ashira Pelman Ostrow, “Process Preemption in Federal Siting Regimes, Harvard Journal of Law, July 2011, http://www.harvardjol.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Ostrow_Article.pdf)
For national security reasons, the federal government has long asserted exclusive authority to manage
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of Energy to develop guidelines by which to evaluate potential repository sites. 139
Congress is necessary – overcomes regulatory process.
Fertel, Senior Vice President and Chief Nuclear Officer at the Nuclear Energy Institute, ‘5
Marvin, CQ Congressional Testimony, “NUCLEAR POWER'S PLACE IN A NATIONAL ENERGY POLICY,” 4/28, lexis
Industry and government will be prepared to meet the demand for new emission-free
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policy challenges-like waste management-that arise with all advanced technologies.
US stance against reprocessing hurts relations with South Korea and results in South Korean nuclearization.
Yurman, Staff Writer, ‘12
Dan, “Revisiting Reprocessing in South Korea”, ANS Nuclear Café, 8-2-12,
http://ansnuclearcafe.org/2012/08/02/revisiting-reprocessing-in-south-korea/, RSR
Comes now the request by the South Korean government, first aired in October 2010
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nuclear arsenal as a shield against aggression from its neighbor to the north.

See South Korea Add-on

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No proliferation – global reprocessing now denies and US safeguards too strong.
Lee, 2010 Wise Intern at the American Nuclear Society, ‘12
Nathan, WISE, “Sustainability Of U.S. Nuclear Energy: Waste Management And¶ The Question Of Reprocessing”, 2012,
http://www.wise-intern.org/journal/2010/NathanLeeWISE2010.pdf, RCM
No matter how much some nuclear energy proponents might play down the dual purpose of
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-time monitoring of material flows to detect and prevent proliferation attempts.40
We control the only internal link to South Korean proliferation – refusal to back reprocessing causes relations collapse and South Korean breakout
Yurman, Staff Writer, ‘12
Dan, “Revisiting Reprocessing in South Korea”, ANS Nuclear Café, 8-2-12,
http://ansnuclearcafe.org/2012/08/02/revisiting-reprocessing-in-south-korea/, RSR
Comes now the request by the South Korean government, first aired in October 2010
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nuclear arsenal as a shield against aggression from its neighbor to the north.
US-SoKo relations k2 regional stability and global security
Clinton 10 Hillary Rodham Clinton, “America’s Engagement in the Asia-Pacific”, October 28, 2010, http://www.state.gov/secretary/rm/2010/10/150141.htm

This year also marked a milestone with another ally: the 60th anniversary of the
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Trade Agreement by the time of the G-20 meeting in Seoul.
East Asian instability leads to World War III
Knight Ridder 2k
(Jonathon S. Landay, “Top administration officials warn stakes for U.S. are high in Asian conflicts”, 3-11, L/N)
Few if any experts think China and Taiwan, North Korea and South Korea,
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no institutionalized security mechanism in place. There are elements for potential disaster."
Revival of U.S. nuclear programs, particularly reprocessing, is key to promote nuclear nonproliferation.
Bengelsdorf 7 (Harold, consultant and former director of energy department offices, “THE U.S. DOMESTIC CIVIL NUCLEAR INFRASTRUCTURE AND U.S. NONPROLIFERATION POLICY”, http://www.nuclearcompetitiveness.org/images/COUNCIL_WHITE_PAPER_Final.pdf)
U.S. nuclear exports can be used to influence other states’ nuclear programs
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initiatives designed to discourage the spread of sensitive nuclear facilities to other countries.
Norms and diplomacy are irrelevant – internal political will is the primary motivating factor driving prolif
Mez, senior associate Professor at the Department of Political and Social Sciences, Freie Universitat, ‘12
Lutz, director of the Environmental Policy Research Centre, “Nuclear energy – any solution for sustainability and climate protection?” Energy Policy, Science Direct
Viewed in historical terms, military use of nuclear energy has gone hand in hand
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in nuclear technology which decides whether a country develops nuclear weapons or not.
Hardline against reprocessing drives states to proliferation
Lewis, director of the East Asia Nonproliferation Program at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation, ‘12
Jeffrey , 8/1/12, It's Not as Easy as 1-2-3, www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/08/01/it_s_not_as_easy_as_1_2_3?page=full
Before joining the Obama administration, Deputy Energy Secretary Daniel Poneman outlined a very similar
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Attempting to impose ENR restrictions, they concluded, might actually spur proliferation.

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Abandoning politics causes war, slavery, and authoritarianism
Boggs 2k (CAROL BOGGS, PF POLITICAL SCIENCE – SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA, 00, THE END OF POLITICS, 250-1)
But it is a very deceptive and misleading minimalism.  While Oakeshott debunks political mechanisms
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run counter to the facile antirationalism of Oakeshott’s Burkean muddling-through theories.  
Case outweighs. Waste is there packed on-site right now and its going to blow up. It’s also vulnerable to prolif and terrorist attacks that culminate extinction. Also, they can’t solve Yucca long term which also blows up. Rejecting capitalism doesn’t address the underlying problems of waste storage.
Perm: do both—the plan’s approach to the current energy crisis presents a unique opportunity to reform capitalism
Peters 12 (Michael A Peters 2012, Michael A. Peters is professor of education at the University of Waikato in New Zealand and professor emeritus at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. 10 June 2012, “Greening the Knowledge Economy: A Critique of Neoliberalism,” Truthout, http://truth-out.org/news/item/9642-greening-the-knowledge-economy-a-critique-of-neoliberalism)

Ecopolitics must come to terms with the scramble for resources that increasingly dominates the competitive
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development's contribution to energy efficiency, battery storage and new forms of renewable energy
Rejecting capitalism will spark transition wars, re-entrenching cycles of exploitation
Gubrud 97 Mark Avrum (Center for Superconductivity Research); “Nanotechnology and International Security”; Foresight Nanotechnology Institute; http://www.foresight.org/Conferences/MNT05/Papers/Gubrud/

With molecular manufacturing, international trade in both raw materials and finished goods can be
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political loyalty of clients might imply reversion to some form of nationalistic imperialism.
The status quo is structurally improving.
Golanky, Policy Analyst for the Department of the Interior, ‘10
Indur, PhD from MSU, “Population, Consumption, Carbon Emissions, and Human Well-Being in the Age of Industrialization (Part III — Have Higher US Population, Consumption, and Newer Technologies Reduced Well-Being?)”, April 24,
http://www.masterresource.org/2010/04/population-consumption-carbon-emissions-and-human-well-being-in-the-age-of-industrialization-part-iii-have-higher-us-population-consumption-and-newer-technologies-reduced-well-being/#more-9194
In my previous post I showed that, notwithstanding the Neo-Malthusian worldview,
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, but misses the larger picture, despite pretensions to a holistic worldview.
Capitalism solves war.
Gartzke, Associate Professor of Political Science and a member of the Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies at Columbia University, ‘7
Eric, “The Capitalist Peace”, American Journal of Political Science, Vol. 51, No. 1, January 2007, Pp. 166–191
If war is a product of incompatible interests and failed or abortive bargaining, peace
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the developed world and account for the dyadic observation of the democratic peace.
Capitalism the only way to save the environment from ecological disaster—technology drives efficiency
Taylor 12, Christopher. "Green Capitalism." Breaking Washington DC News, Maryland News, Virginia News, US Politics News and Analysis. N.p., 16 Mar. 2012. http://washingtonexaminer.com/article/141806.

James Watt, secretary of the Interior for Ronald Reagan is quoted as saying "
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to suppress both, resulting in stagnation and less benefit to the environment.
The system’s resilient DESPITE income inequality and the alt fails.
Rose, Editor of Foregin Affairs, ‘12
Gideon, Foreign Affairs, January/February 2012, “Making Modernity Work”
The central question of modernity has been how to reconcile capitalism and mass democracy,
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in the past, optimism would seem the better long-term bet.
The alt fails – just pointing out the flaws doesn’t work.
Kliman, professor of economics at Pace University, ‘4
Andrew, “Alternatives to Capitalism: What Happens After the Revolution?” http://akliman.squarespace.com/writings/
I. Concretizing the Vision of a New Human Society We live at a moment
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meantime, the challenges from below require us to proceed on its basis.
Capitalism is ethical.
Bhagwati, University Professor and Senior Fellow in International Economics at Columbia, ‘9
Jagdish, “Feeble Critiques: Capitalism's Petty Detractors”, World Affairs
http://www.worldaffairsjournal.org/articles/2009-Fall/full-Bhagwati-Fall-2009.html, RSR
Inevitably, the crisis on Wall Street has revived the never-ending notion that
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the governor’s transgressions on the call girls rather than on his own flaws?
And not the root cause
Aberdeen, Author and Philanthropist, ‘3
Richard, Uncommon Sense, Ch. 80, p. google
A view shared by many modern activists is that capitalism, free enterprise, multi
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murder, theft and rape by individuals within a perceived economic “class”.

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Their infatuation with ontology is politically debilitating – focusing on ontology divests politics of its emancipatory potential and devolves into a self-justifying cycle of never-ending critique.
Yar, Ph.D in the Department of Sociology at Lancaster University, 2k
Majid, “Arendt's Heideggerianism: Contours of a `Postmetaphysical' Political Theory?,” Cultural Values, Volume 4, Issue 1, January, Available Online to Subscribing Institutions via Academic Search Complete
Similarly, we must consider the consequences that this 'ontological substitution' for the essence of
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politics of any other practical and normative ends in the process.21
Case comes first – the scientific method of the 1AC is the most objective way of letting being manifest itself to us.
Demeritt, Professor of Geography at King’s College London, ‘1
David, “The Construction of Global Warming and the Politics of Science”, Annals of the Association of American Geographers, Vol. 91, No. 2 (Jun., 2001), pp. 307-337, RSR
One of my intentions in this article is to show how the technical practices of
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change with some tacit beliefs about determinacy, prediction, and rational control.
Permutation do both: Heideggerian releasement is an affirmative argument: we can establish a free relation to technology through thinking, so the action of the plan is not implicated by their link.
Godzinski 5 (Ronald Jr., Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, “(En)Framing Heidegger’s Philosophy of Technology,” Essays in Philosophy, Vol. 6, No. 1, humboldt.edu/essays/godzinski.html)
In a related vein, the previous claim that everything within the natural world gives
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sending or presencing of Being gets closed off and concealed from us.26
Plan is a net benefit to the permutation.
a.) The very idea of housing in Yucca Mountain is the standing reserve mentality.
Bloomfield and Vurdubakis, ‘5
Brian and Theo (Centre for the Study of Technology and Organisation, Lancaster University Management School), “The secret of Yucca Mountain: reflections on an object in extremis”, Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 2005, volume 23, page 741
The Yucca Mountain project has been officially trumpeted as the long sought after solution to nuclear waste, but for many others in US society (and beyond) the repository has a very different meaning. If Heidegger (1977) bemoaned what the siting of a hydroelectric plant had done to the Rhine, the technological revealing of nature as standing reserve, the outcry over Yucca Mountain by various US native peoples is no less notable. Indeed, for them the repository implies an act not of purification but, rather, one of defilement. Yucca Mountain has ``long been a place of powerful spiritual energy for the Shoshone and the Paiute. The water in the area is sacred, too, as it is with many desert peoples'' (http://www.sacredland.org/endangered sites pages/ yucca mountain.html). Further, Erikson observes: ``Shoshone and Paiute natives _ see that whole tract as part of an ancient claim and view its use by federal agencies as `willful trespass'. They have been using Yucca Mountain for at least twelve thousand years ... . The very idea of injecting the most virulent poisons ever known into the body of a mountain seems to them an insult to the earth, an affront to ancestors, and a violation of natural good sense'' (1994, pages 208 ^ 209). Clearly, then, the object Yucca Mountain as well as the idea of turning it into a repository for nuclear waste are perceived within a variety of interpretative horizons. Their meaning and value are formed in relation to a number of different historical, cultural, economic, and political contexts.
b.) SQUO treats atomic energy as an standing reserve, concealing the problems with waste.
Rawles, Lecturer at the University of Edinburgh, 2k
Richard, “Coyote Learns to Glow”, Part of “Learning to Glow: A Nuclear Reader”, RSR
Humans, having gathered uranium from the New Mexican desert not all that far from
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its destructive aspects, along with the rituals needed to maintain the fire.
Heidegger’s privileging of ontology is complicit in atrocities.
Committee on Public Safety 96 (The writers subsume their individual names within the denomination of "Committee" in deference to the indivisibility of the work presented Levinasian Scholars "My Place in the Sun" Reflections On The Thought Of Emmanuel Levinas Diacritics 26.1 (1996) 3-10 Project Muse) TBC 7/7/10

At the heart of Levinas's critique of Heidegger is the reproof that the question of
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-ing and yet nearer than any be-ing could ever be.
Phenomenology fails – we can’t transcend purely empirical ideas
Bartok 84 (Philip J. Dept of Phil U of Notre Dame FOUCAULT’S ANALYTIC OF FINITUDE AND THE “DEATH” OF PHENOMENOLOGY) TBC 7/8/10

Foucault’s line of argument here is most plausibly understood as an internal objection to Husserl’s
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under this episteme, Husserlian phenomenology cannot help but devolve into an anthropology.
The problem is not with calculative thought is not too much rationality, but too little.
Marsh 95 (James L., Professor of Philosophy at Fordham University, Critique, Action, and Liberation p. 227-228 GAL)

In contrast to Heidegger's basically negative account of modern rationality as a calculation rooted in
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is. therefore, not only arbitrary, but redundant and unnecessary. 21 

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Northwestern 1AC
Inherency
Observation One: Inherency
Obama pushing nuclear incentives now.
Pistilli 12 (Melissa, reporting on market-shaking news in the resource and mining investment sector with Resource Investing News since 2008, 10-11-12, “Nuclear Power Prominent in US Presidential Candidates’ Energy Policies” 10/11 http://uraniuminvestingnews.com/12783/nuclear-power-united-states-energy-policies-romney-obama-election.html)

The Obama administration’s energy policy supports the expansion of nuclear energy. Under Obama,
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the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the University of Tennessee.
There’s global expansion of nuclear now – Fukushima doesn’t matter.
Marketwire 12 (5/3/12, – Part of the Paragon Report on uranium ore stock future
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/nuclear-renaissance-back-track-122000381.html)

NEW YORK, NY--(Marketwire -05/03/12)- Last year
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," Areva SA's Chief Commercial Officer Ruben Lazo said in a previous interview.
But, the US is not reversing course on reprocessing.
Saillan 10 (Charles, attorney with the New Mexico Environment Department, Harvard Environmental Law Review, 2010, “DISPOSAL OF SPENT NUCLEAR FUEL IN THE UNITED STATES AND EUROPE: A PERSISTENT ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEM”, Vol. 34, RSR)

The U.S. government’s position on reprocessing changed in 1974 when India exploded
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in 2009, and is “no longer pursuing domestic commercial reprocessing.” 157
Observation 2
Observation Two: Peak Uranium
Peak uranium is coming by 2016.
Keen 12 (Kip, Uranium supply crunch by 2016 - nuclear expert says, Mineweb, 24 January 2012, http://www.mineweb.co.za/mineweb/view/mineweb/en/page72103?oid=143915andsn=Detailandpid=102055, da 8-27-12)

A nuclear expert gave uranium supply three more years - at most - before it
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in his "downside" analysis the uranium deficit still comes by 2015.
Increased domestic production of uranium is key to our tritium supply – foreign sources cannot solve.
Rowny 12 edward, retired Lieutenant General, was chief negotiator with the rank of ambassador in the START arms control negotiations with the Soviet Union and has served as an arms control adviser and negotiator for five presidents, Roll Call, 3-29-2012,
http://www.rollcall.com/issues/57_118/edward-rowny-safe-uranium-enrichment-should-be-us-priority-213505-1.html

Oil may grab headlines, but nuclear power for civilian use is growing, as
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uranium needed to produce tritium, our national security will be at risk.
That’s key to the usefulness of our nuclear weapons.
Gaffney 10 (Frank, founder and president of the Center for Security Policy, “There Goes the Nuclear Deterrent”, Breitbart, 10-14-2010, http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2010/10/14/There-Goes-the-Nuclear-Deterrent)

The House Armed Services Committee warned in 1993 that the deterrent was being subjected to
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warheads must be regularly refueled in order for those weapons to remain operable.
Reliability underpins the effectiveness of our deterrent.
Caves 10 (John, Senior Research Fellow in the Center for the Study of Weapons of Mass Destruction at the National Defense University, “Avoiding a Crisis of Confidence in the U.S. Nuclear Deterrent”, January , Strategic Forum, No. 252, Institute for National Strategic Studies¶ National Defense University,
http://www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?AD=ada514285)

As an emerging nuclear-armed near peer like China narrows the wide military power
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the plan has not because Congress has declined to provide the requisite funding.
Nuclear deterrence necessary to deter rogue states, CBW attacks, power challengers, and allied proliferation - impact is extinction.
Schneider 9 (Mark, Senior Analyst with the National Institute for Public Policy, May/April 2009 “The Future of the US Nuclear Deterrent” Comparative Strategy, p345-360)

According to the Pentagon’s Quadrennial Defense Review, the United States must maintain a “
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legacy arms control and its constraints upon U.S. conventional capabilities.
Adoption of reprocessing solves U.S. uranium needs
Sayre 11 (Edwin, engineering consultant, “Commercial Value of Used Nuclear Fuel Reprocessed with Elements Separated, Purified and Reduced to Metals”, NIST, 2011, http://www.nist.gov/tip/wp/pswp/upload/164_commercial_value_used_nuclear_fuel_reprocessed.pdf)

The commercial value of the elements in the used fuel as indicated in Table 1
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the next 500 years with the ¶ proper technical planning and program operation.
Observation 3
Observation Three: Warming
Warming is real and anthropogenic – carbon dioxide increase, polar ice records, melting glaciers, sea level rise all prove.
Prothero 12 (Donald, Lecturer in Geobiology at Cal Tech and Professor of Geology at Occidental College, 3-1-12, “How We Know Global Warming is Real and Human Caused," Skeptic, vol 17 no 2, EBSCO)

Converging Lines of Evidence¶ How do we know that global warming is real and
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pinnacles, but the rest of these drowned cities would lie deep underwater.
Scientific consensus goes aff – 97% of the most qualified scientists in the field agree
Anderegg, et al. 10 (William (Department of Biology, Stanford University); James Prall (Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto); Jacob Harold (William and Flora Hewlett Foundation); and Stephen Schneider (Department of Biology, Stanford University and Woods Institute for the Environment, Stanford University), “Expert credibility in climate change”, PNAS, Vol. 17, No. 27, July 6, 2010, RSR
Note: ACC = Anthropogenic Climate Change, UE = those unconvinced by evidence and CE = those convinced by evidence.)

The UE group comprises only 2% of the top 50 climate researchers as ranked
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discussions in media, policy, and public forums regarding anthropogenic climate change.
We must act quickly with long term technological innovation to avoid the irreversible climate change triggered by 2°C.
Peters, et al. 12 (Glen (Center for International Climate and Environmental
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C”, Nature Climate Change, 12-2-12, RSR)

It is important to regularly re-assess the relevance of emissions scenarios in light
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the goal of remaining below 2 °C will very soon become unachievable.
Scenario one is biodiversity
Warming and CO2 emissions kill biodiversity – newest research shows that ecosystems are on the brink due to human activity.
Barnosky et al 12 (Anthony (Department of Integrative Biology, University of California
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a state shift in Earth’s biosphere”, Nature, May 2012, RSR)

As a result of human activities, direct local-scale forcings have accumulated to
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social unrest, economic instability and loss of human life could result 64 .
The risk of keystone species loss leads to extinction – outweighs on reversibility.
Chen 2k (Jim, Professor of Law at University of Minnesota and Dean of Law School at Louisville, “Globalization and Its Losers”:, 9 Minn. J. Global Trade 157’ LexisNexis Legal)

Conscious decisions to allow the extinction of a species or  the destruction of an entire
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- in ten mil-  lion years, perhaps a hundred million.348
Scenario two is agriculture
Despite CO2 fertilization, massive rise of temperature due to warming causes food shortages —the result is extinction.
Strom 7 (Robert, Professor Emeritus of planetary sciences in the Department of Planetary Sciences at the University of Arizona, studied climate change for 15 years, the former Director of the Space Imagery Center, a NASA Regional Planetary Image Facility, “Hot House”, SpringerLink, p. 211-216)

 THE future consequences of global warming are the least known aspect of the problem
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starvation, and political and economic chaos with all their ramifications for civilization.
Reprocessing solves warming in two ways:
First, reprocessing is key to a revived U.S. clean energy program that provides leadership to win agreements to cut emissions and solve warming.
Roberts 4 (Paul, Energy Expert and Writer for Harpers, The End of Oil, pg. 325-326)

Politically, a new U.S. energy policy would send a powerful message
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business prospects in China that it now has its own vehicles in Beijing.”
Second, only allowing for reprocessing allows for nuclear power to transition to a carbon free economy fast enough to avoid catastrophic warming – best modeling flows aff.
Chakravorty et al. 12 (Ujjayant (Professor and Canada Research Chair, Alberta School of Business and Department of Economics); Bertrand Magne (OECD Environment Directorate, Paris, France); Michel Moreaux (Emeritus Professor and IDEI Researcher, Toulouse School of Economics, University of Toulouse), “RESOURCE USE UNDER CLIMATE STABILIZATION: CAN NUCLEAR POWER PROVIDE CLEAN ENERGY?”, Journal of Public Economic Theory, Vol. 14, Issue 2, 2012, RSR)

This paper applies a model with price-induced substitution across resources to examine the
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lead to a steady state where nuclear energy plays an important role. 31
This is especially true now – we need nuclear power in the interim since renewables are not progressing fast enough.
Harvey 12 (Fiona, Environment Correspondent, “Nuclear power is only solution to climate change, says Jeffrey Sachs”, The Guardian, 5-3-12,
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/may/03/nuclear-power-solution-climate-change, RSR)

Combating climate change will require an expansion of nuclear power, respected economist Jeffrey Sachs
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of energy, unless the effects of the climate were taken into account.
US leadership on nuclear reprocessing leads to a spillover of the technology internationally.
Acton 9 (James, J. associate in the Nonproliferation Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International  Peace, Survival, Vol. 51, No. 4, “Nuclear Power, Disarmament and Technological Restraint”, RSR)

Thus, not only does reprocessing clearly not help with facilitating take back, but
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the nuclear RandD community – that support the development of reprocessing.
Plan Text
Thus the plan: The United States Federal Government should provide a twenty-percent investment tax credit for the deployment of domestic nuclear fuel recycling.
Solvency
Observation Four: Solvency
Tax incentives would solve for reprocessing – makes it commercially more desirable
Lagus 5 (Todd, 2005 WISE Intern, University of Minnesota, WISE, “Reprocessing of Spent Nuclear Fuel: A Policy Analysis” http://www.wise-intern.org/journal/2005/lagus.pdf, RSR)

The economic analysis shows that the reprocessing or even the once through nuclear cycle is
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is an unobtrusive option that could help the industry by easing capital costs.
Government investment key – necessary to mitigate risks from government regulations.
Selyukh 10 (Alina, Staff Writer, “Nuclear waste issue could be solved, if...”, 8-17-10, Reuters,
http://www.reuters.com/article/2010/08/17/us-nuclear-waste-recycling-idUSTRE67G0NM20100817, RSR)

Since the U.S. agency declared spent fuel reprocessing too costly, U
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to mitigate government-imposed risks," he said of the regulatory regime.
Government investment necessary – provides appropriate risk mitigation and shortens the timeframe for completion.
IAEA 8 (International Atomic Energy Agency, “Spent Fuel Reprocessing Options”, August 2008, RSR)

With the expected high costs and significant risks involved in constructing new nuclear facilities,
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, equity protection plans, tax credits, etc.) with government entities. 

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Perm: do both.
Perm solves best – combination of financing techniques is best for certainty
Kane, Senior Vice President of Nuclear Energy Institute, 5 (John, United States House of Representatives, Committee on Energy and Commerce, Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality, Testimony for the Record, 16 February 2005, http://www.nei.org/publicpolicy/congressionaltestimony/testimonykaneextended, da 11-1-12)
We believe that companies can achieve the best results by pursuing a combination of options
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process works as intended, companies can finance subsequent plants without federal investment.

They kill certainty by not funding the production of the tech. Certainty key to commercialization and aff solvency.
Berry and Tolley, ‘10
Stephen and George, Professors of Energy Policy and Economics at the University of Chicago, “Nuclear Fuel Reprocessing Future Prospects and Viability”, University of Chicago Humanities, 11-29-2010, http://humanities.uchicago.edu/orgs/institute/bigproblems/Team7-1210.pdf
The U.S. efforts to exploit nuclear power commercially originated as a result
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understanding of the challenges which confront nuclear reprocessing in the U.S.

Conditionality is a voting issue

Plan is key to investment – industry executives are waiting for a tax credit to invest
Kane, Senior Vice President of Nuclear Energy Institute, 5 (John, United States House of Representatives, Committee on Energy and Commerce, Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality, Testimony for the Record, 16 February 2005, http://www.nei.org/publicpolicy/congressionaltestimony/testimonykaneextended, da 11-1-12)
The industry has taken enormous strides during the past few years to explore alternatives for
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varying competitive structures within energy companies’ states, geographic areas or service territories.

PICs are bad 

1AC - Nuclear Recycling (Peak Uranium, Warming)
1NC - T - QPQ, Security K, No First Use CP, Politics - CIR, Warming turns on case
2NC - Warming turns, CP
1NR - Politics
2NR - Warming turns, CP

1AC - Recycling 1AC (Warming, Peak Uranium)
1NC - Sunsets CP (Heg NB), Sun Shade CP, Russian Oil DA, Energy Efficiency DA, Politics (CIR)
2NC - Sunsets, Sun Shade, Case
1NR - CIR
2NR - Sunsets (Heg NB), Sun Shade

1AC - Recycling 1AC (Warming, Peak Uranium)
1NC - Baudrillard, Agamben, Kato (on case)
2NC - Kato, Baudrillard
1NR - Agamben
2NR - Kato, Baudrillard

1AC - Recycling 1AC (Peak Uranium, Warming)
1NC - T-Restrictions, Politics (CIR), Renewables Tradeoff DA, Heidegger
2NC - Renewables Tradeoff, Case
1NR - Politics
2NR - Politics, Case

1AC - Recycling 1AC (Peak Uranium, Warming)
1NC - A-Spec, Politics (Immigration), Waste/Periodite-Sequestration CP, Neoliberalism
2NC - Neolib
1NR - Case
2NR - Neolib

1AC - Recylcing 1AC (Peak Uranium, Warming)
1NC - Florida PIC, Politics (Immigration), Russian Oil DA
2NC - Florida PIC, Politics
1NR - Russian Oil, Case
2NR - Politics, Case

Recycling 1AC (Peak Uranium, Warming)
1NC - RandD CP, Politics (Energy Efficiency), Case
2NC - Case
1NR - Politics
2NR - Politics, Case

1AC - Nuclear Recycling 1AC (Peak Uranium, Warming)
1NC - Cap K, Baudrillard, Framework (Must use all logos, ethos and pathos), Case (Environmental Managerialism and Nietzsche)
2NC - Framework, Baudrillard (w/ floating PIC)
1NR - Case and Cap
2NR - Framework, Baudrillard

1AC - Reprocessing 1AC (Peak Uranium, Warming)
1NC - Chernus K, Ocean Albedo CP, Coal DA, Nuclear Engineers DA, South Korea ENR DA
2NC - ENR, Case
1NR - Coal
2NR - Coal, Case

1AC - Nuclear Reprocessing 1AC (Warming)
1NC - Reactionary Suicide and Code-Switching K (Black Feminism Alt)
2NC - K
1NR - K
2NR - K

1AC - Reprocessing 1AC (Peak Uranium, Warming)
1NC - T-Increase, Cap K, Politics (Immigration), Heg DA (Heg Bad)
2NC - Politics, Case (Prolif and Meltdown turns)
1NR - T, K
2NR - T

1AC - Reprocessing 1AC (Waste, Warming)
1NC - Cap K, Fem IR K, Case (Apoc Rhetoric, Environmental Intersectionality, Focus on Big Impacts is Bad)
2NC - Cap K, Case (Intersectionality, Focus on Big Impacts Bad)
1NR - Fem IR K, Case (Apoc Rhetoric)
2NR - Fem IR K, Case (Apoc Rhetoric, Environmental Intersectionality, Focus on Big Impacts Bad)