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TEXT: The United States Federal Government should substantially increase loan guarantees for small modular thermal reactors for domestic energy production.in all territories of the United States except for states bordering the Ohio River, which include Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky, West Virginia and Pennsylvania. 

CONTENTION 1: COMPETITION
A) Processing will cause nuclear waste to leak into the Ohio River
The Athens News, July 12, 2007 (Knouse, John., Letter: Placing a nuclear reproccessing plant in Ohio is the definition of insanity, L/N)

It's time to speak out on the Piketon nuclear Strickland to urge that this project be abandoned.

Ohio River health determines overall mussel populations
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, September 16, 2007 (Don Hopey, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, HEALTHY MUSSELS, HEALTHY RIVER, L/N)

Identification and protection of natural resources is not a management strategy ....are going to die out," Mr. Bier said.

 Species loss causes human extinction
Santos, 1999 (Miguel, Environmental Crisis, p. 35-6)

In addition, natural forests provide recreation and unique scientific .... endangering the diversity of future human life-support systems.

Spread of commercial nuclear tech makes weapons prolif inevitable—3 distinct internal links.
Nassauer 10—Otfried Nassauer is founding Director of the Berlin Information-center for Transatlantic Security (BITS) since 1991. For twenty years he also worked as a free-lance investigative journalist in military and international security affairs. [September 2010, “Nuclear Weapons and Nuclear Energy – Siamese Twins or Double Zero Solution?” Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung, EU, Brussels, http://www.boell.org/downloads/HBS-Nassauer-Sokolski_web.pdf]

Even in the best case scenario, it is to be assumed that the .... Therefore, it’s better for us to sell it ourselves.”

Unchecked nuclear spread will cause global nuclear war – shorter flight times and lack of second strike capacity.
Cimbala 2008
(Stephen, Political Science Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, March, “Anticipatory Attacks: Nuclear Crisis Stability in Future Asia” Comparative Strategy, Vol 27 No 2, p 113-132, InformaWorld)

The spread of ballistic missiles and other nuclear-capable ... guides to the avoidance of war outside of Europe.19