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Lack of financing and credit blocks new nuclear projects in status quo  Need more government support
Gelinas, Fellow, Manhattan Institute, '7
[Nicole Gelinas, the Searle Freedom Trust Fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a contributing editor of City Journal. She is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) and a member of the New York Society of Securities Analysts. "Nuclear Power: The Investment Outlook," Energy Policy & the Environment Report, No. 1, June 2007, http://www.manhattan-institute.org/html/eper_01.htm download date: 11-8-08]

Despite these bright fundamentals,
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except, perhaps, commercial risk

Plan Text
Plan: The United States Federal Government should substantially increase market-fixed production cost incentives for domestic deployment of liquid fluoride thorium reactors.

US nuclear renaissance inevitable- Only way to meet demand and government subsidies
Worthington 2012 (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
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US$14 billion, CNN reported.
 

And internationally- Multiple countries going nuclear now
Chu, 2010
(Steven, Energy Sectretary, “America's New Nuclear Option”, The Wall Street Journal,
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704231304575092130239999278.html, accessed 8-3-12, RSR)

Perhaps most importantly
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 import them tomorrow.

Old reactor types make meltdowns inevitable – reactors have shut down in the past and the NRC has failed at regulation
Gronlund 2007 (Nuclear power in a Warming world: Assessing the Risks, Addressing the Challenges, Lisbeth Gronlund;  David Lochbaum;  Edwin Lyman, Union of Concerned Scientists, http://www.ucsusa.org/assets/documents/nuclear_power/nuclear-power-in-a-warming-world.pdf) JD

Safety problems remain
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 needed to fix them.

Meltdowns cause extinction
Lendman, 2011
(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
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literally, an apocalyptic event.

LFTRs solve – meltdowns are physically impossible
Richard Martin 12 (author of "SuperFuel: Thorium, The Green Energy Source for the future”, Superfuel: Thorium, the Green Energy Source for the Future. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. Print.)

The reactor core
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is physically impossible.

Expanded incentives and loan guarantees key to bringing plants online as soon as possible
VAN NAMEN 2008  (SENIOR VP URANIAM ENRICHMENT USE, CC INC  NUCLEAR POWER, CQ CONGRESSIONAL TESTIMONY, COMMITTEE ON HOUSE SCIENCE ANDTECHNOLOGY, 4-23

The Role of the U.S. Government
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burning fossil fuels.

Subsidies are key to pushing new construction forward – creates a sustainable domestic industry
Freebairn may 12 (William Freebairn May 12  Nuclear tax credits, previously low-profile, might draw scrutiny: lobbyists http://www.lexisnexis.com/hottopics/lnacademic/)

The 2005 Energy Policy Act
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benefits for utilities.

LFTR prototypes are proven to work.
Sorenson 7-4 (Kirk, nuclear technologist, spent much of his career researching the potential of thorium fission reactors, founded a company, Flibe energy, 7-4-11, “Could thorium solve the world’s energy problems [interview with Sander Olsen],” http://nextbigfuture.com/2011/07/could-thorium-solve-worlds-energy.html)
Question: How has the mainstream nuclear
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earth's energy needs.

Nuclear power is the only way to significantly reduce global warming and CO2 emissions
United States Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, 5-4-2007, “Domenici Praises Focus on Nuclear Energy in UN Climate Change Report”, http://energy.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=PressReleases.Detail&PressRelease_Id=4aba31cb-f46a-4392-9cc5-043d05f6c0f1, CM

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Pete Domenici,
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Promise of Nuclear Energy.”

Global warming causes food shortages, disease, and regional conflict.
Podesta, Stern, and Batten 2007 (John, Todd, and Kit, November 2007, http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2007/11/pdf/energy_chapter.pdf)

Climate change presents
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 potentially global consequences.23

Global warming causes human extinction
Henderson 2006 (Bill,  August 19, 2006, http://www.countercurrents.org/cc-henderson190806.htm)
The scientific debate about human induced
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 man in the world we share. 

Nuclear terrorism is inevitable without fissile material disposal
Smith 11 (James F., Communications Director, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Jun 6, [www.nti.org/newsroom/news/first-joint-us-russia-assessment/])
Researchers from the United States and Russia
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 work together to stop it.

We’re overdue for a nuclear attack. It is too easy to steal weapons grade plutonium from existing reactors.
Tirone ’12 (Jonathan, reporter for Bloomberg News, 3/22/2012, "Missing Nukes Fuel Terror Concern," [www.businessweek.com/news/2012-03-22/missing-nukes-fuel-terror-concern-as-seoul-meeting-draws-obama])

The legacy of the Soviet Union’s
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roof of another.
 

Nuclear terrorism causes nuclear retaliation- extinction
Ayson 10,  Professor of Strategic Studies and Director of the Centre for Strategic Studies: New Zealand at the Victoria University of Wellington, 2010 (Robert, “After a Terrorist Nuclear Attack: Envisaging Catalytic Effects,” Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, Volume 33, Issue 7, July, Available Online to Subscribing Institutions via InformaWorld)
But these two nuclear worlds—a non-state actor nuclear
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meet with a devastating response.

LFTRs can consume uranium and plutonium from old nuclear weapons and waste. We can reduce our supply of dangerous weapons grade material by adopting the plan.

Kirk Sorensen 11 (3/23/11, http://energyfromthorium.com/ieer-rebuttal/, “IEER/PSR Thorium “Fact Sheet” Rebuttal”)
Since so many nuclear
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 uranium-233 is generated.