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Inherency
Federal incentives needed to kickstart fourth generation nuclear GE 8/8 (Accessed)
(GE Energy works connecting people and ideas everywhere to create advanced technologies for powering a cleaner, more productive world. The PRISM Solution: Transforming Nuclear Power with Sodium Cooling, http://cfcc.edu/lrc/documents/PRISMSolutionRev0.pdf)//TR ALMR: The Advanced Liquid Metal Reactor…and create thousands of long-term jobs.
Plan Thus the Plan: The United States Federal Government should provide production tax credits and a 20% investment tax credit to GE-Hitachi Nuclear Energy and all subsequent developers for production of a demonstration Power Reactor Innovative Small Module at the Department of Energy’s Savannah River Site and for all subsequent reactors following that design for energy production in the United States
Here’s the Plan:
SRNS 10
(Savannah River Nuclear Solutions- The Savannah River Site (SRS) is a nuclear reservation in the United States in the state of South Carolina, located on land in Aiken, Allendale and Barnwell Counties adjacent to the Savannah River, 25 miles (40 km) southeast of Augusta, Georgia. The site was built during the 1950s to refine nuclear materials for deployment in nuclear weapons. It covers 310 square miles (800 km2) and employs more than 10,000 people. It is owned by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). The management and operating contract is held by Savannah River Nuclear Solutions LLC (SRNS), and the Liquid Waste Operations contract is held by Savannah River Remediation, which is a team of companies led by URS Corporation., GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy and Savannah River Nuclear Solutions Sign Agreement on Small Modular Reactor Technology, http://srnl.doe.gov/newsroom/2010news/apr11_gehitachi102710.pdf)//TR GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy (GEH) and… look forward to seeing these discussions mature."
Solvency
Plan controls renaissance and provides certainty needed for investment McMahon 9/27
Jeff McMahon, 9/27/2012, Forbes Contributor {I have covered the vexed relationship between humans and our natural environment since 1985, when I discovered my college was discarding radioactive waste in the dumpster out back. That story ran in the Arizona Republic, and I have worked the energy-and-environment beat ever since—for dailies in Arizona and California, for alternative weeklies including New Times and Newcity, for online innovators such as True/Slant, The Weather Channel's Forecast Earth project, and The New York Times Company's LifeWire syndicate. I've wandered far afield—to cover the counterrevolutionary war in Nicaragua, the World Series Earthquake in San Francisco, the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen. For the last several years I have also been teaching journalism and other varieties of non-fiction at the University of Chicago.}, “The Nuclear Renaissance Is Back, Industry Panel Says”,
http://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffmcmahon/2012/09/27/the-nuclear-renaissance-is-back-industry-panel///)ap
Encouraged by a new poll showing public support… How much it costs and so forth.”¶
Plan solves competitiveness - 1000 years of emissions free energy GE 8/8 (Accessed)
(GE Energy works connecting people and ideas everywhere to create advanced technologies for powering a cleaner, more productive world. The PRISM Solution: Transforming Nuclear Power with Sodium Cooling, http://cfcc.edu/lrc/documents/PRISMSolutionRev0.pdf)//TR Summary: Currently, GEH recognizes three … gap to commercialization of sodium reactor technology.
Makes it the most competitive electric energy period- Multiple studies prove Ben-Moshe et al 9
(Sony, Jason J. Crowell, Kelley M. Gale, Breton A. Peace, Brett P. Rosenblatt, Kelly D. Thomason,
Kelley Michael Gale is the Finance Department Chair of Latham & Watkins‘ San Diego office and serves as global Co-Chair for the firm‘s Climate Change and Cleantech Practice Groups. He has thirty years of experience representing private and public sector clients in the development, regulation, and financing of alternative energy projects and capital intensive infrastructure projects. The co-authors are attorneys in the Project Finance Practice Group in the San Diego office of Latham & Watkins LLP Financing the Nuclear Renaissance: The Benefits and Potential Pitfalls of Federal & State Government Subsidies And the Future of Nuclear Power in California, Energy Law Journal, Volume 30 No. 2 2009, p.506)TR See LARRY PARKER & MARK …natural gas discussed above. Parker & Holt, supra.
Plan results in global SMR exports Rosner 11
Robert Rosner, Stephen Goldberg, Energy Policy Institute at Chicago, The Harris School of Public Policy Studies, November 2011, SMALL MODULAR REACTORS –KEY TO FUTURE NUCLEAR POWER GENERATION IN THE U.S., https://epic.sites.uchicago.edu/sites/epic.uchicago.edu/files/uploads/EPICSMRWhitePaperFinalcopy.pdf As stated earlier, SMRs have …, Japan, Korea, Russia, and, now rapidly emerging, China. |
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Electricity’s the key to solve global emissions- only plan can meet reduction targets to curb warming - Consensus Nicholson et al 11
(Martin studied mathematics, engineering and electrical sciences at Cambridge University in the UK and graduated with a Masters degree in 1974. He has spent most of his working life as business owner and chief executive of a number of information technology companies in Australia. He has a strong interest in business and public affairs and is a keen observer of the climate change debate and the impact on energy. He is author of Energy in a Changing Climate, as well as an upcoming book on sustainable energy systems, and is the lead author of the 2011 paper in the journal Energy “How carbon pricing changes the relative competitiveness of low-carbon baseload generating technologies“,Dr Tom Biegler currently researches and writes independently on energy technology and economy issues. He was a CSIRO research scientist and is a Delta-G Consultant, Professor Barry Brook is a leading environmental scientist, holding the Sir Hubert Wilkins Chair of Climate Change at the School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, and is also Director of Climate Science at the University of Adelaide’s Environment Institute. He has published three books, over 200 refereed scientific papers, is a highly cited researcher, and regularly writes popular articles for the media. He has received a number of distinguished awards for his research excellence (including the Australian Academy of Science Fenner Medal) and was awarded the 2010 Community Science Educator of the Year for his public outreach activities. How carbon pricing changes the relative competitiveness of low-carbon baseload generating technologies, p. 306, Energy 36 (2011) 305e313)TR To address the cause of … relative competitiveness increases as the carbon price rises.
Runaway Warming causes extinction- Consensus Morgan 9
Dennis Ray, Professor of Current Affairs @ Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, South Korea, “World on fire: two scenarios of the destruction of human civilization and possible extinction of the human race”, Futures, Volume 41, Issue 10, December 2009, Pages 683-693, ScienceDirectTR As horrifying as the scenario … the cards against our chances of survival? Emissions cause Ocean Acidification and Collapse- Extinction Sify 10
(Sydney newspaper citing Ove Hoegh-Guldberg, professor at University of Queensland and Director of the Global Change Institute, and John Bruno, associate professor of Marine Science at UNC; Sify News, “Could unbridled climate changes lead to human extinction?”, http://www.sify.com/news/could-unbridled-climate-changes-lead-to-human-extinction-news-international-kgtrOhdaahc.html)//TR Sydney: Scientists have sounded alarm …' Bruno warned, according to a GCI release. These findings were published in Science. SMR Nuclear Desalination is the only way to solve inevitable global water wars Palley 11
(Reese Palley - 1945-1949 The New School for Social Research¶ 1949-1952 The London School of Economics. Writer and historian) (The Answer: Why Only Inherently Safe, Mini Nuclear Power Plants Can Save Our World. Pg. 168-171) Desalinization and World Water … biblical ability to "strike any local rock and have water gush forth."
And those go nuclear Weiner 90
(Jonathan, Visiting Professor of Molecular Biology at Princeton University. The Next One Hundred Years: Shaping the Fate of Our Living Earth, p. 214) If we do not destroy … since Trinity.
Indo Pak Water Wars Go Nuclear Zahoor 11
(Musharaf, is researcher at Department of Nuclear Politics, National Defence University, Islamabad, “Water crisis can trigger nuclear war in South Asia,” http://www.siasat.pk/forum/showthread.php?77008-Water-Crisis-can-Trigger-Nuclear-War-in-South-Asia,)TR South Asia is among one of those regions …failure of dialogue will leave no option but to achieve the ends through military means. Fallout Causes Extinction Robock and Toon 9
(Dr. Alan Robock is a Professor II (Distinguished Professor) of climatology in the Department of Environmental Sciences at Rutgers University and the associate director of its Center for Environmental Prediction. He also directs the Rutgers Undergraduate Meteorology Program. He graduated from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, in 1970 with a B.A. in Meteorology, and from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with an S.M. in 1974 and Ph.D. in 1977, both in Meteorology. Owen Brian Toon is professor of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences and a fellow at the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP) at the University of Colorado.1 He received his Ph.D. from Cornell University in 1975; his adviser was Carl Sagan. His research interest is in cloud physics, atmospheric chemistry and radiative transfer, Published in Scientific American, South Asian Threat? Local Nuclear War = Global Suffering, http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=local-nuclear-war)//TR Nuclear bombs dropped on cities … provide confidence that the models are correct. |
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A strong SMR industry’s key to US leadership, market share, and cradle to grave Mandel 9
(Jenny – Scientific American, Environment and Energy Publishing, LLC, “Less Is More for Designers of "Right-Sized" Nuclear Reactors” September 9, 2009, http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=small-nuclear-power-plant-station-mini-reactor) Tom Sanders, president of the American … he said. "The question is: Are we building them, or are we just importing them?"
Cradle To Grave solves cascades McGoldrick 11
(Fred McGoldrick, CSIS, spent 30 years at the U.S. State and Energy Departments and at the U.S. mission to the IAEA, negotiated peaceful nuclear cooperation agreements with a number of countries and helped shape the policy of the United States to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons, May 2011, Limiting Transfers of Enrichment and Reprocessing Technology: Issues, Constraints, Options, http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/files/MTA-NSG-report-color.pdf) The U.S. has been exploring the … was sent would not have to be the same for a cradle-to-grave service to work.
Dirty Squo Fuel Cycle tech collapses the entire nonproliferation regime Diyakov 10
Anatoly S. Diyakov, Professor of Physics and Director of the Center for Arms Control Energy and Environmental Studies at the Moscow Institute of Physics, “The nuclear “renaissance” and preventing the spread of enrichment and reprocessing technologies: a Russian view”, Dædalus Winter 2010 The anticipated growth of nuclear … external sources of nuclear fuel cycle services and products. Nuclear power means quick breakout—kills deterrence and causes nuclear war Sokolski 9
Henry Sokolski, Executive Director of the Nonproliferation Policy Education Center, 6/1/2009, Avoiding a Nuclear Crowd, http://www.hoover.org/publications/policy-review/article/5534 Finally, several new nuclear … None of this, however, is inevitable. Cold War logic no longer applies— Prolif causes nuclear war Cimbala 8
Stephen Cimbala, Ph.D., Penn State Brandywine Political Science Distinguished Professor, 2008, Anticipatory Attacks: Nuclear Crisis Stability in Future Asia, Comparative Strategy Volume 27, Issue 2 The spread of nuclear weapons … the avoidance of war outside of Europe.
And it can only be destabilizing Kroenig 9
Matthew Kroenig, Georgetown University government Assistant Professor, Harvard Project on Managing the Atom research affiliate, Ph.D., Former US Defense Dept. Strategist, CFR Term Member, November 2009, "Beyond Optimism and Pessimism: The Differential Effects of Nuclear Proliferation," http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/publication/19671/beyond_optimism_and_pessimism.html Nuclear proliferation …meaning of the word. |
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White Supremacy is the social ordering logic of the world today- everyday violence rendered against black and red bodies is hidden yet produces all subsequent global violence Rodriguez 7
(Dylan Rodriguez is Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies at UC Riverside, November 2007 Kritika Kultura” American Globality and The U.S. Prison Regime: State violence and White Supremacy from Abu Ghraib to Stockton to Bagong Diwa”, http://kritikakultura.ateneo.net/images/pdf/kk9/american.pdf)//TR To consider the US prison as a global practice of dominance…political, ecological, and social crises of neoliberalism, warfare, and global white supremacy.
The USFG and the DOE store nuclear waste on Native American lands and have no intention of stopping Kamps 11
(Kevin Kamps; Radioactive Waste Specialist at Beyond Nuclear, a Takoma Park, Maryland-based safe energy advocacy organization,January 26, 2011, “Press Statement by Kevin Kamps, Radioactive Waste Specialist at Beyond Nuclear, on the publication of the final report by the U.S. Blue Ribbon Commission on America’s Nuclear Future”)TR “Today the U.S. Department of Energy’s Blue Ribbon …This amounts to a risky radioactive waste shell game on our roads, rails, and waterways.
This undeclared war is well documented- environmental racism on an unprecedented scale Endres 9
(Danielle, {Ph.D. Communication; Associate Professor, Department of Communication, University of Utah; a director of an oral history project: Nuclear Technology in the American West; a co-director of a national research project on climate change activism} “From wasteland to waste site: the role of discourse in nuclear power’s environmental injustices”, Local Environment, Vol. 14, No. 10, November 2009, 917–937)ap As mentioned above, nuclear colonialism … Native Americans in the USA and other indigenous peoples worldwide.
Preoccupied with the fantasy of a “global nuclear war”, the USFG ignores the nuclear war it wages on indigenous peoples every day- for natives the apocalypse has already come Kato 93
(Masahide Kato, Nuclear Globalism: Traversing Rockets, Satellites, and Nuclear War via the Strategic Gaze, Source: Alternatives: Global, Local, Political, Vol. 18, No. 3 (Summer 1993), pp. 339-360 Published by: Sage Publications, http://www.jstor.org/stable/40644779 Accessed: 24/08/2012)TR Let us recall our earlier discussion about … catastrophe happening in the Fourth World and Indigenous Nations almost on a daily basis. Nuclear colonialism has left Native American lands as “National Sacrifice Zones”-impact is genocide Barkas 5
(Jessica Barkas, J.D., Seattle University School of Law “Testing the Bomb: Disparate Impacts on Indigenous Peoples in the American West, the Marshall Islands, and in Kazakhstan” University of Baltimore School of Law Review 2005 Lexis)TR The dawn of the nuclear age allowed the … committed in the name of national security. The barbarism of US policy toward Native Americans has laid the foundation for the West’s sacrificial logic- addressing crimes are key to solving Street 4
(Paul Street, author, March 11, 2004. “Those Who Deny the Crimes of the Past Reflections on American Racist Atrocity Denial, 1776-2004,” http://thereitis.org/displayarticle242.html)//TR It is especially important to appreciate …immeasurably more civilized people than those who came to destroy. This sacrificial logic sustains the worst violence, including Nazism, genocide and war –death drive culminates in extinction Santos 3
(Boaventura de Sousa, leading Portuguese social theorist, the director of the Center for Social Studies at the University of Coimbra, “Collective Suicide?” Bad Subjects, Issue 63, p. http://bad.eserver.org/issues/2003/63/santos.html According to Franz Hinkelammert, the West has repeatedly …democracy and liberty turns into a machine of horror and destruction. |
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African uranium mining is colonialism in the 21st century, destroying land and health of African people through neo-colonial agreements Forum of Peoples 11
(The Peoples Forum in Niono, Mali, from 31 October to 3 November 2011 was attended by 1200 people from all over Africa and the world. ICAN Africa was represented by Dr Ruku Bilehni (DRC) and Samir Abi (Togo). Dr Ruku Bilehni gave two lectures explaining the dangers of nuclear weapons and uranium mining. The participants issued the Niono Appeal against nuclear power in Africa and for the abolition of nuclear weapons globally, Call from Niono, Mali, Against Nuclear Power and for the Abolition of Nuclear Weapons
,3 November 2011, http://icanw.org/node/5772)//TR Africa cannot be indifferent to this …which bind them to some countries, in particular France and China. Mining in Africa is dirty, unmanageable and empirically proven to disproportionately affect the impoverished- this is consistently ignored to justify the regime Scheele 11
(Fleur Scheele- Researcher at WISE with contributions from Joseph Wilde-Ramsing and Esther de Haan (SOMO) (Uranium from Africa-Mitigation of uranium mining impacts on society and environment by industry and governments, http://www10.antenna.nl/wise/uranium.pdf , Amsterdam, June 2011)TR Dealing with a type of mining which is more hazardous … mitigation measures do not seem to be adequate, or even existing. It’s this depoliticizing of nuclear mining in Africa that displaces concerns to the marginality- enabling exceptionalism and oppression Hecht 9
GABRIELLE HECHT, Professor in the Department of History, University of Michigan, Africa and the Nuclear World: Labor, Occupational Health, and the Transnational Production of Uranium, Comparative Studies in Society and History 2009; 896–926, http://www-personal.umich.edu/~hechtg/articles/HechtCSSH09.pdf)//TR Uranium mines were at the technopolitical margins … The struggle to see Africa in the nuclear world, and the nuclear world in Africa, continues.
Extinction has already occurred for the black bodies destroyed by the USFG- impacts are SYSTEMIC while their claims are only speculative- plan shines light on institutional racism and spurs change Omolade 84
(Barbara Omolade Calvin College’s first dean of multicultural affairs, Women of Color and the Nuclear Holocaust, Reviewed work(s):Source: Women's Studies Quarterly, Vol. 12, No. 2, Teaching about Peace, War, and Women inthe Military (Summer, 1984), p. 12Published by: The Feminist Press at the City University of New YorkStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/40004305 .Accessed: 26/08/2012 12:36)TR To raise these issues effectively, the movement for nuclear dis-armament … gained the ability to eat and to provide for the future of our people. Neg’s decision calculus is symptomatic of the White Western chauvinism that perpetuates violence against people of color- plan solves Martin 84
(Brian Martin (born 1947) teaches in the interdisciplinary area of Science, technology, and society at the University of Wollongong in Australia, where he became a professor in 2007.1 He was president of Whistleblowers Australia from 1996 to 1999 and remains their International Director, Extinction politics, Published in SANA Update (Scientists Against Nuclear Arms Newsletter), number 16, May 1984, pp. 5-6, http://www.bmartin.cc/pubs/84sana1.html)//TR The peace movement also has denigrated the value of civil defence… the workers' control movement and the environmental movement.. |
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Nuclear Power is key to scientific cooperation and bolsters US leadership on tech Krige 6
Kranzberg Professor, School of History, Technology and Society, Georgia Institute of Technology (John, Atoms for Peace, Scientific Internationalism and Scientific Intelligence, www9.georgetown.edu/faculty/khb3/osiris/papers/Krige.pdf) TR
The refusal to provide ‘civilian’ radio-isotopes … would reinforce, rather than undermine, “the common defense and security of the United States”.45
And that cooperation will spill over to broader science cooperation- India proves Pyatt 11
Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs (Geoffrey, Taking Stock of the U.S.-India Nuclear Deal, http://www.state.gov/p/sca/rls/rmks/2011/174883.htm) TR As we look ahead to the future of our civil-nuclear … two-thirds of which have resulted in long-term partnerships.
Nuclear Power is key to science and tech leadership that resolves escalating conflicts BRC 12
The Reactor and Fuel Cycle Technology Subcommittee of the Blue Ribbon Commission on America’s Nuclear Future; co-chaired by the Honorable Pete Domenici and Dr. Per Peterson and included the following Commissioners: Dr. Albert Carnesale, Susan Eisenhower, Dr. Allison MacFarlane, Dr. Richard Meserve, Dr. Ernest Moniz, and the Honorable Phil Sharp. (Reactor and Fuel Cycle Technology SubcommitteeReport to the Full Commission, cybercemetery.unt.edu/archive/brc/20120620220054/http://brc.gov/sites/default/files/documents/updated_rfct_report_final.pdf) TR
In contrast, there is much less uncertainty …and reducing energy-related national security risks and terrorism threats.
And expanding domestic nuclear power is key to resolving conflict with rogue states UIB 10
(Unistar Issue Brief; Publication of Constellation Energy and EDF Group The Global Nuclear Marketplace: a case for Engagement http://www.unistarnuclear.com/IB/global_marketplace.pdf) TR The Consequences of Inaction … strengthen our influence on nuclear energy issues worldwide.
Plan’s key to global cooperation on energy, poverty, and the economy Fertel 11
35 years of experience consulting for electric utilities on issues related to designing, siting, licensing and managing both fossil and nuclear plants. Worked in executive positions with such organizations as Ebasco, Management Analysis Company and Tenera. In November 1990, he joined the U.S. Council for Energy Awareness as vice president of Technical Programs (Marvin, Measured Reactions Warranted, http://energy.nationaljournal.com/2011/07/php) TR
The strength of America’s energy portfolio …produce common-sense energy strategies that stand the test of time.
Global science cooperation solves failed states, disease, resource wars, and global inequality Fedoroff 8
Former Science and Technology Adviser to the Sec of State. Chaired Professor of Life Sciences and Evan Pugh Professor in the Biology Department and the Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences, Pennsylvania State University. (Nina, Statement before Subcommittee on Research and Science Education, Committee on SandT, USHR, http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/CHRG-110hhrg41470/html/CHRG-110hhrg41470.htm) TR
Countries that cannot feed their … enhance security, increase global partnerships, and create sustainability.
And it’s the best way to solve war Krasnodebska 12
Former Contributing Researcher for the USC Center for Conflict Prevention. Master of Public Diplomacy, USC (Molly, Conflict Prevention, http://uscpublicdiplomacy.org/index.php/newswire/media_monitor_reports_detail/science_diplomacy/)//TR
Science diplomacy can function as a tool for conflict … development for neglected diseases” in countries such as Indonesia, Malaysia and Pakistan where vaccine diplomacy is currently being implemented. |
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Contention 1: Apocalypse Now March 11th, 2011. A massive earthquake and tsunami off the coast of Japan spark a series of equipment failures, nuclear meltdowns, and releases of radioactive materials at the Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant. Many workers are killed in the ensuing meltdowns, six workers exceed lifetime legal limits for radiation, and more than 300 received significant radiation doses. In a statement just one day after the event, President Barack Obama ordered a safety review of all U.S. nuclear plants. "When we see a crisis like the one in Japan, we have a responsibility to learn from this event," the President said. "My heart goes out to the people of Japan during this enormous tragedy," he wrote in the condolence book at the Japanese embassy in Washington D.C. several days later. "And as it recovers, the memory of those who have been lost will remain in our hearts, and will serve only to strengthen the friendship between our two countries. May God Bless the people of Japan." The memory of these deaths and the invocation of the many radiation “victims” and “refugees” are mobilized in the public discourse surrounding increasing nuclear energy production. “From a business perspective, it is perfectly understandable that the nuclear industry would feel the need to assuage public fears in the wake of the Fukushima crisis. Since the late 1970s, the industry has largely been in a state of stagnation; the tide of US public opinion began to turn against nuclear power following the near disaster at Three Mile Island. Of the 104 plants currently in operation, ground was broken on all of them before 1974. To expand its business, the industry turned to exports, finding a friend in President Bill Clinton, who approved the sale of nuclear technology to such countries as China, Brazil and Argentina. More recently, Barack Obama has proven nothing short of a godsend for the nuclear industry in the US. Along with clean, renewable energy sources, Obama has long considered nuclear power an important alternative to coal and other dirty, foreign fossil fuels. In the Democratic debate during the 2008 presidential race, he made his position clear: "I actually think that we should explore nuclear power as part of the energy mix." Even as he has acknowledged that "nothing is completely failsafe" in the midst of the Fukushima crisis, he has remained steadfast in his support of nuclear energy. As recently as 17 March, he stated, "Nuclear energy is an important part of our own energy future." While it was George W Bush who established $18.5bn in federal loan guarantees for the construction of new plants, it is Obama who declared his intentions to nearly triple that figure to $54.5bn.” With government backed nuclear expansion imminent, and tasked with undertaking and securitizing against the risk of radiation exposure, “On March 12, 2012, based on the prioritized task force recommendations, the NRC issued the first regulatory requirements for the nation’s 104 operating reactors based on the lessons-learned at Fukushima Dai-ichi. The NRC continues to evaluate and act on the lessons learned to ensure that appropriate safety enhancements are implemented at nuclear power plants here in the U.S. In accordance with Commission direction, the NRC’s activities are being led by a steering committee comprised of senior NRC management. Additionally, the NRC established the Japan Lessons Learned Project Directorate, a group of more than 20 full-time employees focused exclusively on implementing the lessons learned.” And just over one month ago, “A group of American scientists met in Tokyo on Tuesday to study last year's Fukushima nuclear accident in hopes of finding lessons to improve the safety of U.S. atomic power reactors. Norman Neureiter, head of the 22-member committee of the National Academy of Sciences, said the tsunami-spawned disaster at Fukushima nuclear power plant and its continuing impact have caused widespread concerns about the safety of nuclear energy. "We are trying to look at the whole experience and to take from that lessons which can be applied to increasing safety of nuclear power," he told The Associated Press during a coffee break between technical sessions. Neureiter said the committee is hearing from Japanese officials and will conduct its own investigation. He said the findings would be valuable to the nuclear industry throughout the world. A tsunami generated by a powerful earthquake hit the Fukushima nuclear plant in March 2011, knocking out power and cooling systems and causing partial meltdowns in three reactors. More than 100,000 people evacuated from the area are still unable to return to their homes in Fukushima due to radiation concerns.
Obama’s symbolic speech acts, the Japan Lessons Learned initiative, and subsequent NRC Security Restrictions on nuclear power are dominant acts of mourning that ontologically disavow “radiated” victims and refugees as objects, a social surplus of difference and alterity to be eliminated. It is an ethical imperative to radically historicize the narrative of securitizing nuclear power en route to energy production. This act reveals that there is no totality which we can bring society together with, solving fascist backlash, totalitarianism, and destruction of difference. Haver 94
(William, positions, 2.1, “A World of Corpses”) Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, Director of Undergraduate Studies and Director of PIC (Philosophy, Interpretation and Culture) program @ Binghamton University, P.h.D. @ U of Chicago in 1987. The fear of nuclear annihilation has become trivial; its inevitability cannot be contested. The possibility of nuclear destruction existed before the events of Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and will continue long after Fukushima. The fear persists however, and prompts the “clean” and “healthy” body politic to securitize against those affected by radiation. This securitizing takes the forms security restrictions for nuclear and monumental acts of mourning where “victims” and “refugees” are presented as already dead and excluded. Tsukui 11
The following statement by Nobuko Tsukui, a Japanese national from Tokyo who has specialized in the literature of the atomic bomb, was delivered at the 2011 Annual Lantern Float at Lincoln’s Holmes Lake Park Saturday evening 8/6.- http://nebraskansforpeace.org/hiroshima-nagasaki-fukushima//TR The liberal-humanist reaction to Fukushima produces virulent forms of racism and nationalism. But instead of a glorified American referent, ‘us’ becomes the human community who look endlessly upon the hibakusha as the abject reminders of our rightness and cleanliness. The social surplus maintains the human community by upholding genetic, viral, and bacteriological standards Haver 96
(William Professor of Comparative Literature at Binghamton University, “The Body of this Death: Historicity and Sociality in the Time of AIDS,” 1996, pgs. 87-89)
Community constitutes itself through the mythical bond of death between its members and through those deaths that are deemed ungrievable and thus not recognized. This exclusionary sense of belonging creates endless violence to police identity, culminating in the worst atrocities Glowacka 6
(Culture Machine, Vol 8 (2006) Community and the Work of Death: Thanato-Ontology in Hannah Arendt and Jean-Luc Nancy, Dorota Glowacka ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF HUMANITIES; ADJUNCT PROFESSOR MA(Wroclaw), PhD(SUNY) Contention 2: Intervention not Institution
Our affirmation breaks with the totality of community enabling us to dismantle totalitarianism’s control over the discourse of debate and of nuclear power in the context of US security policies–it’s what you do in this one moment that matters. Pelevin 2
Victor, Russian author.. Bomb Magaizine, Vol No. 79, Spring. P. http://www.bombsite.com/pelevin/pelevin3.html This counter-monumental approach reshapes the way that we conceptualize history Luciano 2004
(Dana, Georgetown English Professor , Melville's Untimely History: "Benito Cereno" as Counter-Monumental Narrative, The Arizona Quarterly. Tucson: Autumn 2004. Vol. 60, Iss. 3; pg. 33, 28 pgs)TR This affirmation is the rupture of dominant State history in the context of nuclear power discourse – molecular struggles such as this round, this moment are key; failure to resist the totalization of history is complicit in the formation and encouragement of racism, sexism, and heterosexism. This complicity depends on and makes necessary ongoing political sacrifice of alterity to the gods of realism who cannot save us, rather we must start raising hell to save ourselves! Haver 94
(William, positions, 2.1, “A World of Corpses”) Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, Director of Undergraduate Studies and Director of PIC (Philosophy, Interpretation and Culture) program @ Binghamton University, P.h.D. @ U of Chicago in 1987. This guerrilla intervention is a struggle for politics without a teleology that locks us into the status quo Haver 96
(William Professor of Comparative Literature at Binghamton University, “The Body of this Death: Historicity and Sociality in the Time of AIDS,” 1996, pgs. 21-22) Totalitarian claims on discourse are a violent looting of the potential of language – those norms stifle knowledge and true exchange of ideas- means debate is already dead Morrison 93
Toni, American novelist, editor, and professor, won the Nobel Prize in 1993 and the Pulitzer Prize in 1988 for Beloved. On 29 May 2012, she received the Presidential Medal of Freedom. , “The Bird in Our Hand: Is It Living or Dead? Toni Morrison's Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech 1993 |
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C/I – Criticism is a form of affirmation. The Role of the Ballot is to vote for the team that best problematizes community.
The United States Federal Government is We the People Henry 87
(The Founders' Constitution Volume 2, Preamble, Document 14 http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/documents/preambles14.html The University of Chicago Press Elliot, Jonathan, ed. The Debates in the Several State Conventions on the Adoption of the Federal Constitution as Recommended by the General Convention at Philadelphia in 1787. . . . 5 vols. 2d ed. 1888)TR Resolved is to reduce by mental analysis
Random House 11
(http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/resolve)
Should indicates desirability
OED 11
(http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/should?region=us)
Centralization d/a- Cross-arguing is more beneficial than debate centered around a strict ground delineation Hicks 2
Darrin Hicks is Associate Professor of Communication at the University of Denver in Denver, Colorado. “The Promise(s) of Deliberative Democracy Rhetoric and Public Affairs 5.2 (2002) 223-260 Project Muse Community d/a- Their attempt to purge the erotic other from debate for the betterment of the community is normalized violence. Turns their offense and outweighs because voices are denied access Secomb 2k
(Linnell, a lecturer in Gender Studies at the University of Sydney “Fractured Community” Hypatia – Volume 15 Number 2 Spring 2000 pg. 138-139TR) Insitutionality d/a- They stack the deck in favor of elites, creating bias and coercively constraining the agenda through which our decisions and discussions are actualized- this means they have no uniqueness for any of their deliberation or education impacts- THIS IS A KEY ISSUE Jackman 94
UC Davis sociology professor, 1994
(Mary, The Velvet Glove: Paternalism and Conflict in Gender, Class, and Race Relations, pg 64-68)TR Their form of deliberation is predicated on a form of cost benefit analysis that is depoliticizing and methodologically bankrupt – creates error replication award their better policy and decision-maker arguments ZERO WEIGHT Burke 2007
(Anthony, Associate Professor of Politics and International Relations in the University of New South Wales, Ontologies of War: Violence, Existence and Reason, theory and event 10.2, TR) Roleplaying d/a- Our form of debate interrogates power structures better than theirs by engaging with the social aspect and the ways that policy is justified and created, see the top of the affirmative where we analyze that process. Their roleplaying misrepresent the process of government decisionmaking, it’s neither educational nor predictable CLAUDE 88
(Inis, Professor of Government and Foreign Affairs, University of Virginia, States and the Global System, pages 18-20)TR Passivity d/a Antonio 95
(Robert J Antonio is Professor at Kentucky University (PhD Notre Dame) and specializes in social theory, macroscopic sociology, and economy and society. His writings have focused on Marx, the Frankfurt School, Weber, Dewey, Habermas, and others in the classical and continental tradition., Nietzsche's Antisociology: Subjectified Culture and the End of History American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 101, No. 1 (Jul., 1995), pp. 1-43)TR And these are especially true in policy debate Mitchell 98
Ass’t. Prof. of Communications at Pittsburgh, 1998 Gordon, "Pedagogical Possibilities for Argumentative Agency in Academic Debate," Argumentation and Advocacy, Fall, ProQuest |
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Extend 1AC Luciano, our contermonumental engagement with knowledge production breaks with the capital H history that locks in oppression and ressentiment, only an active genealogical criticism like the affirmative can solve the alt Deleuze 83
(Gilles Deleuze, Nietzsche and Philosophy, translated by Hugh Tomlinson, 1983) Alt Fails - Their reading of Nietzsche locks desire into a fascist politics where we become complacent and are taught to desire our own oppression. There is no value to life in the status quo because the alternative’s method of complacency creates internal fascism that supercedes nihilism and makes it inevitable. We must engage the radical politics of the affirmative that peers past the totalizing and fascistic structure of the alternative and embraces a new radical becoming that liberates us Seem 72
(Mark, Translator of Anti-Oedipus, Intro to Anti-Oedipus,p. xx-srai!)TR Perm do the plan and all non-competitive parts of the alternative—exercising the will politically is not moralizing messianism—we recognize that the body is thrown into a network of social practices and meanings, its orientation towards them is constantly in flux. We endorse an experimental ethics of world-changing—the alternative of uncritical assent cedes politics and negates the Other without justification May 5
Todd May, “To Change the world, to celebrate life,” Philosophy and Social Criticism 31 (5-6), p SageJournalsOnline |
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Choreography is an apparatus of capture that destroys the possibility of becoming—it affims a mode of power debilitating to difference. It is founded upon a majoritarian drive to consolidate power. In the neg’s methodology, they reduce dance to a tool of the war machine Lepecki 7 (Andre, Dance Theorist, “Choreography as Apparatus of Capture”, TDR: The Drama Review Volume 51, Number 2 (T 194), Summer 2007)gr Spectacular Blackness d/a- THEIR PERFORMANCE AND APPROACH TO BLACKNESS SPECTACULARIZES IT AND MAKES IT A COMMODITY HARTMAN 97
Associate Professor of English @ UC BERKLEY 1997
Saidiya V.- “SCENCES OF SUBJECTION: Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America”; pp. 20-21
THIS TURNS THE PERFORMANCE, SPILLING THEIR HARMS OVER TO THE DEBATE SPACE
HARTMAN 97
Associate Professor of English @ UC BERKLEY 1997
Saidiya V.- “SCENCES OF SUBJECTION: Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America”; pp. 21-23
Ableism d/a- Mobility in context of agency or political action constructs disability as ‘broken’ or ‘stuck’
May and Ferri, Syracuse Feminism and Disability studies Professors, 5
(Vivian M, Beth A, “Fixated on Ability: Questioning Ableist Metaphors in Feminist Theories of Resistance,” 2005, Prose Studies, Vol. 27, No. 1and2 April-August 2005, pp. 120-140, http://syr.academia.edu/BethFerri/Papers/160692/Fixated_on_Ability_Questioning_Ableist_Metaphors_in_Feminist_Theories_of_Resistance, Date Accessed: 7/5, JS) Ableist Speech strengthens oppression and destroys the purposes of debate – the impacts trump the other warrants in their arguments Wheelchair Dancer 8 (“On Making Argument: Disability and Language”, 4/28/8 http://cripwheels.blogspot.com/2008/04/on-making-argument-disability-and.html Accessed: 2/10/11 GAL) Intersectionality is a net benefit to the perm and a disad to the alt. The securitization of eroticism produces anti-blackness and is codeterminate with it, means their criticism merely effects the symptoms not the cause Ellison 96
(Marvin, Professor at Bangor Theological Seminary, Erotic Justice: A Liberating Ethic of Sexuality p.45-49)TR Our coalitional politics is based on shared recognition of difference that empowers alterity and avoids violent cooptation of identity politics by the state that their k makes inevitable – we must confront civil society in all of its normalizing functions Dean 3
(Tim, Professor of English at University of Buffalo, Cambridge Companion to Lacan, “Lacan and Queer Theory,” p. 238-41)TR The K relies on a repressive understanding of power by which those with privilege can only oppress others – this demobilizes the potential for authority to be used in creative ways to create conditions for resisting domination. Giroux 5
chair Global Network Television @ McMaster, 2005 Henry A. Border Crossings. 2nd Edition. p. 131-133 |
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Everyday violence must be prioritized – it is the largest proximate cause of war, creates priming that psychologically structures the worst atrocities Scheper-Hughes and Bourgois 04
(Nancy and Philippe, Prof of Anthropology @ Cal-Berkely; Prof of Anthropology @ UPenn, Introduction: Making Sense of Violence, in Violence in War and Peace, pg. 19-22) The neg’s claims to how China will act and react to the aff depends on a rationalization of China—this flawed positivist epistemology seeks to render all of the international arena knowable and predictable—the result is the inevitable emergence of a ‘China threat’ based on orientalization Pan 4
Chengxin , prof school of international and political studies, Deakin U. PhD in pol sci and IR, “The "China threat" in American self-imagination: the discursive construction of other as power politics,” 1 June 2004, http://www.articlearchives.com/asia/northern-asia-china/796470-1.html
China favors concessions and peaceful resolution—regime instability and empirics Asia Times 11
(Sudha Ramachandran, “China plays long game on border disputes,” Jan 27, 2011, http://www.atimes.com/atimes/China/MA27Ad02.html)
The shift has already happened Zitan 10/10/2012
(Gao “Rare Earths Give China Less Leverage Over Japan,” d/l: http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/china-news/rare-earths-give-china-less-leverage-over-japan-301241.html) jl |
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Paralysis d/a- Their purely destructive politics cedes the possibility of theorizing a progressive politics- their act of making no sense proves their inability to make demands or produce progressive politics. Means the alt never goes far enough and reproduces the squo Hartley 21
(Mardsen Hartley was an American Modernist painter, poet, and essayist, The Importance of Being "Dada" (1921) , From Adventures in the arts: informal chapters on painters, vaudeville and poets. New York: Boni and Liveright, 1921. Pages 247 – 254)TR They make everything art, but it's all shit.
Baudrillard 5
Jean Baudrillard. “Art Between Utopia and Anticipation.” The Conspiracy of Art. 2005. Page 51-53. Causes banality- outweighs alt solvency Baudrillard 11
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Empirics flow aff –epistemological critique creates political change in the world Kurki 11
(Milja, International Politics department at Aberystwyth University UK (The Limitations of the Critical Edge: Reflections on Critical and Philosophical IR Scholarship Today, Millenium: Journal of International Studies, July 2011)TR |
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The conflation of natural and human sciences in the form of realism results in genocide Burke 7
( Anthony, Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations at UNSW, Sydney, “Ontologies of War: Violence, Existence and Reason”, Theory and Event, 10.2, Muse) Agency d/a- Realism is dominant because its tenants are believed. Claiming “inevitability” annihilates agency and change. Bleiker 2k
(Roland, Senior Lecturer and Coordinator of the Peace and Conflict Studies Program – University of Queensland and Professor – Australian National University, Popular Dissent, Human Agency and Global Politics, p. 48-49TR) Realism not inevitable – 9/11, berlin wall, etc prove state focus is incoherent. Thayer’s biological determinism is flat out wrong Busser 6
York Centre for International and Security Studies, PhD Cand. @ McMaster University, 2006
(Mark, “The Evolution of Security: Revisiting the Human Nature Debate in International Relations,” August, Online: http://www.yorku.ca/yciss/publications/documents/WP40-Busser.pdf) |
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No Uniqueness- Friend Enemy isn’t inevitable
Ontological examination is a prior question to politics- means political arrangements aren't inevitable, they're contingent on how we understand being- our reconstellation of being proves friend-enemy not inevitable Thiele 95
Ph.D. from Princeton, professor of political science at the University of Florida, has published books from Princeton and Oxford (Leslie Paul, “Timely Meditations: Martin Heidegger and Postmodern Politics”, Princeton University Press, Chapter two, pg 45-47) Schmitt’s metaphysics leads to perpetual war, the destruction of the Other, dehumanization, Facism and an eventual culmination in the legally based destruction of being and all their humanity. And Bare Life/We’re all in Gitmo Spanos 11
William V., We’ll run over and ask him about his qualifications if you want us to, The Exceptionalist State and the State of Exception, 158 |
