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PLAN: The United States Federal Government should substantially increase loan guarantees for nuclear power plants built in high socio-economic areas.
Energy Apartheid

Companies seek lower income communities to site nuclear power plants because they are eager for economic growth.
Lazarus ‘92
Richard J. Lazarus Professor of Law, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri PURSUING "ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE": THE DISTRIBUTIONAL EFFECTS OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION SPRING, 1992 87 Nw. U.L. Rev. 787
n88. In commenting on a public utility ...
outside the immediate vicinity of the polluting facility. See Austin and Schill, supra note 14, at 69, 70.

The aff is not an attempt to dictate what marginalized communities need – rather it questions the current method of siting potentially risky power sources. Closing the neoliberal distance between decision makers and the impacts of their decision gets at the heart of why these siting problems occur. We cannot wait for people to do the right thing.
Yamamoto and Lyman 1
Eric K, Hawaii Law School law prof., and Jen-L W, UC Berkeley visiting law prof., University of Colorado Law Review, 72 U. Colo. L. Rev. 311, Spring, p. 311-313, ln
The framework, however, at times also
... disparities within a community. n61

Current siting strategies for nuclear power plants create epistemological distance between governmental and corporate decision makers and the disadvantaged communities where the plants are built.
Kevin ‘97
Daniel Kevin is an environmental analyst at the Ernest Orlando Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley, California. J.D., Golden Gate University Law School (1986); Doctoral Candidacy, University of California, Berkeley (1982); M.A., University of California, Berkeley (1975); B.A., University of California, Santa Cruz (1973). Mr. Kevin was an analyst with the U.S. Congressional Office of Technology Assessment from 1979 to 1987, and worked with private sector environmental consulting firms from 1987 to 1996. ARTICLE: "ENVIRONMENTAL RACISM" AND LOCALLY UNDESIRABLE LAND USES: A CRITIQUE OF ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE THEORIES AND REMEDIES 8 Vill. Envtl. L.J. 121 1997
Conflicts over LULU siting can be
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technical criteria were employed.

This distance between decision makers and disenfranchised communities has created an energy apartheid – ensuring that poor minority communities bear the worst of the risks of energy while receiving few benefits.
Bullard ‘11
Robert D. Bullard is the Dean of the Barbara Jordan-Mickey Leland School of Public Affairs at Texas Southern University in Houston. Dismantling Energy Apartheid in the United States February 9th, 2011 http://dissidentvoice.org/2011/02/dismantling-energy-apartheid-in-the-united-states/
Recent proposals to jump-start
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 of a clean energy future.

The distance between legitimate and illegitimate decision makers heightens the threat of nuclear holocaust. It is only by beginning to heal the racism inherent in processes like siting nuclear power plants that we can open up space for more diverse wisdom to ease tensions.
Anthony ‘95
Carl Anthony is the Executive Director of the Urban Habitat Program and the chair of the East Bay Conversion Reinvestment Commission Remembering the Cuban Missile Crisis: Freedom from Annihilation Is a Human Right Spring Summer 1995 http://urbanhabitat.org/node/945
Nuclear weapons are tools of
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technology-gone-berserk.

Neoliberal Epistemology
The nuclear industry drives siting decisions. Upper socioeconomic neighborhoods cause too much political trouble and land is too expensive. The desire for an easy and efficient process papers over the violence done to low income and minority communities when risky technology is placed in their neighborhoods without their involvement.
Foster ‘98
Sheila Foster Associate Professor of Law, Rutgers School of Law ARTICLE: Justice from the Ground Up: Distributive Inequities, Grassroots Resistance, and the Transformative Politics of the Environmental Justice Movement 86 Calif. L. Rev. 775 July 1998
Although the siting process does
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 rather that "the hazard comes to them."

Advocating building nuclear plants in privileged areas places us in the role of the writer activist – opening up space for disenfranchised communities to resist and be heard.
Nixon ‘11
(Rob, Rachel Carson Professor of English, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor, pgs. 40-42)
In 2009, amidst the global economic
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of Antonio Gramsci, has called "undefeated despair.""

Market forces alone cannot explain the environmental justice problems with nuclear sites, only bringing epistemological questions to the fore can create reflexivity
Rodrik ‘11
(Dan, Professor of International Political Economy at Harvard University, “Occupy the classroom?”, 16 Dec 2011, http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2011/12/2011121494147161362.html)

Consider the global financial crisis.
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 Nor does it make them more popular

Social invisibility causes extinction – produces background of structural violence that makes conflict and environmental collapse inevitable
Szentes ‘8
Tamás Szentes, a Professor Emeritus at the Corvinus University of Budapest. “Globalisation and prospects of the world society” 4/22/08 http://www.eadi.org/fileadmin/Documents/Events/exco/Glob.___prospects_-_jav..pdf

It’ s a common place that human
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 changes in natural environment.

Neoliberal hegemony uses exceptionalism to render its violent side effects invisible, ensuring environmental destruction and global conflict- be suspicious of all their answers because their means of structuring the social field erases vast sectors of the global population from view
Nixon ‘11
(Rob, Rachel Carson Professor of English, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor, pgs. 33-36)

There are signs that the environmental
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 the North's rich nations, often working hand-in-fist with authoritarian regimes.

It is necessary to constantly create new, updated rules while working within institution. Some violence is always inevitable. The plan creates a tension between preserving memories through documentation, and the creation of something absolutely new.
Derrida 94( in “Deconstruction in a Nutshell by John Caputo, written in 1997”)
What is called "deconstruction"--and I wi
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, which is never guaranteed, is the alliance of these to newness.

And nuclear power is safe –we are not advocating hurting privileged communities just sharing the risks. Safeguards solve and no environmental damage in the US
John Gray. Associate at Perkins Coie. Choosing the nuclear option: the case for a strong regulatory response to encourage nuclear energy development. 41 Ariz. St. L.J. 315-348 (2009).
Additionally, multiple standard safeguards
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damage impossible. n10

Our use of institutions like the state realizes our complicity with power and produces agonism- the alternative is a string of “anti’s” that never produce positive change
Newman ‘00,
(Saul, Postdoctoral Fellow @ Macquarie University, Anarchism and the Politics of Ressentiment, muse)

What is the point of this distinction
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position to enhance our possibilities of freedom.

We control the scale of violence – structural violence is necessary to psychologically prime people for macro-level conflict
Scheper-Hughes and Bourgois ‘4
(Prof of Anthropology @ Cal-Berkely; Prof of Anthropology @ UPenn)
(Nancy and Philippe, Introduction: Making Sense of Violence, in Violence in War and Peace, pg. 19-22)

This large and at first sight
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reversed feelings of victimization).