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Not functionally competitive: states can supplement federal incentives
Ben-Moshe’ 09 Financing the Nuclear renaissance: The Benefits and Potential Pitfalls of Federal and State Government Subsidies and the Future of Nuclear Power in California, Sony Ben-Moshe, JOason Crowell, Kelly Gale, Breton Peace, Brett Rosenblatt, Kelly Thomason, Energy Bar Association 2009
7. State Financing of Nuclear Energy¶ In addition to federal subsidies, various
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renewable portfolio standard, which¶ we describe in detail in the next section

1. Enforcement DA- States, especially racist ones, will cheat and only marginally enforce to attract business interests
   Graham ’98 (Mary, Brookings Institute, “Environmental Protection and the States: ""Race to the Bottom"" or ""Race to the Bottom Line""?” Winter, http://www.brookings.edu/research/articles/1998/12/winter-environment-graham, TGA)

To call attention to these changes is not to deny that state and local governments
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opportunities that affect farms and housing developments as well as forests and meadows.

That cheating allows injustice to take hold in siting decisions. Don’t view the solvency deficit debate in utilitarian terms – that framework has traditionally been used in policy making decisions to make decisions that render populations invisible.
Gauna ‘98
Eileen Gauna Professor of Law, Southwestern University School of Law. ARTICLE: The Environmental Justice Misfit: Public Participation and the Paradigm Paradox 17 Stan. Envtl. L.J. 3 January, 1998
Consider the difficulties with such an approach. Some writers have argued that our general
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because it is inconsistent with an economically optimal distribution of benefits and burdens.

Only the federal government can enforce compliance, create uniform standards, and fund long-term commitments.
Byrne, et al., ‘7
(John, Kristen Hughes, Lado Kurdgelashvili, Wilson Rickerson, all from the Center for Energy and Environmental Policy (CEEP), “American policy conflict in the greenhouse: Divergent trends in federal, regional, state, and local green energy and climate change policy”, 2-19-7, RSR)
Effective global mitigation of climate change will require strong leadership by national governments, including
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needed to meet ever more challenging climate action targets (Rabe, 2002).
Federal government is key to offset major hurdles to construction- investors only trust federal backing due to its control over licensing and regulations.
-Solves government regulations/red tape
NEI 11
Nuclear Energy Institute, Policy Brief Financing New Nuclear Power Plants, May
Loan guarantees are important to financing new nuclear energy projects because of the enormous financial
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federal government—through the loan guarantee program—can offset that risk.

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Russia’s economy doomed to failure – SQ can’t solve for corruption and lack of diversity.
MICHAEL SCHUMAN 7-5-12 Schuman writes about Asia and global economic issues as a correspondent for TIME in Beijing, China. In his 16 years as a journalist in Asia, he has reported from a dozen countries, he has a B.A. in Asian history and political science from the University of Pennsylvania and a master of international affairs from Columbia.  http://business.time.com/2012/07/05/why-vladimir-putin-needs-higher-oil-prices/  
This cuts to the heart of a problem we have highlighted before – namely that
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development. The risks are even worse than the fluctuation of oil prices.”

Nuclear power does not compete with oil – they show little overlap with market.
Toth and Rogner, ‘6
(Ferenc (Senior Energy Economist in the IAEA's Planning and Economic Studies Section) and Hans-Holger (Section Head, Planning and Economic Studies Section at the IAEA), “Oil and nuclear power: Past, present, and future”, Energy Economics 28, 2006, pg. 22, RSR)
While the past expansion of nuclear energy occurred to the detriment of oil in the
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best economic option to satisfy increasing demand for electricity (WNA, 2004). 

Despite Improvements Russia’s Military too Weak to Fight a War with U.S.
Menon 7
Rajan Menon is a professor of international relations at Lehigh University and a fellow at the New America Foundation. The Leader-Post (Regina, Saskatchewan) June 8, 2007 Friday.\
The Cold War was also a contest of raw power. With its gargantuan budget
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spending and the testing of a new ICBM should not obscure these weaknesses.

No relationship between nuke and oil
Toth 2006 (Ferenc L. Toth, senior energy economist with the Planning and Economic Studies Section in the Department of Nuclear Energy at IAEA, Hans-Holger Rogner, head of Planning and Economic Studies at IAEA, “Oil and nuclear power: Past, present, and future,” IAEA, http://www.iaea.org/OurWork/ST/NE/Pess/assets/oil+np_toth+rogner0106.pdf)
The current relationship between nuclear power and oil has become distinctly different than it was
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for oil are unaffected by a nuclear presence in the electricity generating market.

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SMRs key to chemical industry
Solan 2010 (David Solan, Director, Energy Policy Institute, Associate Director, Center for Advanced Energy Studies, Assistant Professor of Public Policy and Administration at Boise State University, June 2010, “ECONOMIC AND EMPLOYMENT IMPACTS OF SMALL MODULAR NUCLEAR REACTORS,” Energy Policy Institute, http://www.nuclearcompetitiveness.org/images/EPI_SMR_ReportJune2010.pdf)
Process Heat for Industrial Applications and District Heating. SMRs can be used to provide
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heat output and expense of a large nuclear reactor makes its application impractical.
 
Extinction
CEN 1999 (Chemical and Engineering News, December 6, 1999, “Millennium Special Report,” Vol. 77, No. 49, online)
The pace of change in today's world is truly incomprehensible. Science is advancing on
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, and business managers struggling to make a vital contribution to humanity's future. 

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fails to account for the complexity of the decision making process in Native American tribes. Siding solely with the environmental movement fails to interrogate the larger problems involved in decisions about mines and waste storage.
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
For example, as Native communities endeavor to ameliorate conditions of poverty and social dislocation
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about environmentalists who sometimes treat them as mascots for the environmental cause. n52

Court of appeals has suspended Yucca operations.
WNN ‘12
World Nuclear News, “Yucca Mountain court case on hold,” 06 August 2012, http://www.world-nuclear-news.org/RS-Yucca_Mountain_court_case_on_hold-0608127.html
US appeal court judges have ruled that a case seeking a resumption of licensing work
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our request that the agency be ordered back to work," he said.¶ 

We cannot condemn all decisions to store nuclear waste as misguided and wrong. We should at least consider the notion that Native Americans are making calculated decisions balancing social and economic needs with health and environmental concerns.
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
Some commentators on environmental racism treat the meaning of race with sophistication. n101 The
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what social and economic tradeoffs? And who should make the judgment call?

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Nuclear is necessary for renewable energy production- wind and solar can’t provide baseload power. The alternative is coal- worse in every way
Cerafici ‘9
Tamar Jergensen Cerafici is an attorney whose practice focuses on the intersections between environmental and nuclear law. 40 Years and Counting: Relicensing the First Generation of Nuclear Power Plants: Is New Always Better? The Case for License Renewal in the Next Generation 26 Pace Envtl. L. Rev. 391 Summer 2009
The question of environmental impacts of replacement energy sources is a thorny one. A
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likewise intermittently useful, and are also land use intensive. *414

Spending on nuclear doesn’t trade off with renewable
Bezdek ‘8
Roger Bezdek, Ph.D., is president of the consulting firm Management Information Services Inc, “Federal energy incentives have chiefly benefited oil, natural gas industries; nuclear, renewables lag” ASPO-USA Peak Oil Review, Oct. 13, 2008, http://www.energybulletin.net/node/46854
Contrary to some claims, federal energy incentives have not gone to nuclear energy technologies
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and since 1994, has been less than spending on renewable energy research.

Your Biodiversity Impacts are empirically disproved - a distinct species dies every 20 minutes and biodiversity has recovered after the last 5 extinctions.
Science Daily ‘2
“Extinction Rate Across the Globe Reaches Historical Proportions.” 1/10/2002.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2002/01/020109074801.htm
Levin's column noted that on average, a distinct species of plant or animal becomes
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a permanent state, especially if vast tracts of wilderness area are destroyed.

We trade off with coal, which means Nuclear solves warming better than the squo
Cerafici ‘9
Tamar Jergensen Cerafici is an attorney whose practice focuses on the intersections between environmental and nuclear law. 40 Years and Counting: Relicensing the First Generation of Nuclear Power Plants: Is New Always Better? The Case for License Renewal in the Next Generation 26 Pace Envtl. L. Rev. 391 Summer 2009
The question of environmental impacts of replacement energy sources is a thorny one. A
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Solar facilities are likewise intermittently useful, and are also land use intensive.