Dickerson-Vance Neg

Incentive Spec

Interp: The affirmative must specify solvency regulation of incentive they provide

They defend a generic increase and/or decrease.

Limits – Makes the state action bidirectional causing the aff to be a moving target.

Solvency – Makes it probabilistic their evidence will not assume an increase in incentive or decrease in regulation.

Voter for fairness. 

Financial Incentive T 

Financial Incentives are incentives to offer funding for investors.

Czinkota et al 2009—Associate Professor at the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University, Michael, Fundamentals of International Business, p. 69 – google books

Incentives offered by policymakers to facilitate foreign investments are mainly of three types: fiscal
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import quotas, and local content requirements, and investments in infrastructure facilities.

Violation the affirmative is a fiscal incentive by affecting taxes which is distinct.

Reasons to prefer:

1) Limits – the affirmative allows for an unpredictable decrease in regulation as long as it involves an increase in production at some point.

2) Extra-T – The affirmative claims solvency from an untopical part of the resolution making it unpredictable to debate and impossible to predict.

Voter for fairness and education. As always T should be evaluated through a lens of competing interpretations to avoid judge intervention.  

Geoengineering CP
The United States Federal Government will announce fully funding and implementing the second version of the Hall Weather Machine

The HWM version 2 would solve global warming and create planetary defense against aliens and asteroids
DVORSKY 2012 (GEORGE, is a bioethicist, transhumanist, futurist, and producer of the Sentient Developments blog and podcast. Dvorsky is a co-founder and president of the Toronto Transhumanist Association, and currently serves as Chair of the Board for the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies (IEET). “Could we build a weather machine to stop climate change?”, http://io9.com/5915251/could-we-build-a-weather-machine-to-stop-climate-change, Vance)

Hall has also …. to invading aliens."
The counterplan solves- unilateral geoengineering projects lead to global CO2 abatement
Millard-Ball 12 professor of geography at McGill CLIMATIC CHANGE¶ Volume 110, Numbers 3-4 (2012), 1047-1066, DOI: 10.1007/s10584-011-0102-0¶ The Tuvalu Syndrome¶ Can geoengineering solve climate’s collective action problem?¶ Adam Millard-Ball http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2028166
In practice, however…. avoids that threat.

Oil DA

The Russian economy is on the brink of collapse due to decreasing price of oil—aff pushes them over the edge
Pronina 9/20 (Lyubov; Ruble Weakens Most in Two Months as Oil Declines a Fourth Day; www.businessweek.com/news/2012-09-20/ruble-drops-the-most-since-july-23-on-falling-oil-prices; kdf)
The ruble dropped the most in almost two months as crude oil, Russia’s main
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Plc. Oil and gas contribute about 50 percent of Russia’s state revenue.

Empirically proven renewables drive down the price of oil
Jaffe 2008 (Amy Myers [Wallace S. Wilson Fellow for Energy Studies at the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy at Rice University]; The Impending Oil Shock: An Exchange; Survival; vol. 50 no. 4; pp. 61–82; kdf)

Moreover, the United States’ experience, while perhaps lacking in comparison to that of
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energy systems that could have better applicability in the less-developed world.

Market signal is key—-changing government signal causes prices to crash
Munro 12 Neil, Daily Caller, "Oil prices fall on rumor, but Obama insists nothing can be done" 3/17 dailycaller.com/2012/03/17/oil-prices-fall-on-rumor-but-obama-insists-nothing-can-be-done/2/
President Barack Obama repeatedly says there’s no magic wand to force down gas prices and
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, by state officials and by oil companies during the last several years.¶ 

Economic collapse causes nationalism and undermines democracy

BLAIR AND GADDY 1999 (Bruce Blair is a senior fellow and Clifford Gaddy a fellow in the Brookings Foreign Policy Studies program, Brookings Review, Summer)

Economic weakness is strengthening ….growing politicization.

Democracy prevents famine
Amartya Sen, Nobel Prize winner, Master of Trinity College, Cambridge and Lamont University Professor Emeritus at Harvard University, 2001, The Global Divergence of Democracies, p. 7-8

I have discussed elsewhere the remarkable fact that, in the terrible history of famines
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disappeared suddenly with the establishment of a multiparty democracy and a free press. 

Elections DA
Obama can win now, but base turnout strategy is vulnerable
Gerson 9/10 Michael Gerson Opinion Writer Mitt Romney’s uphill challenge http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/michael-gerson-mitt-romneys-uphill-challenge/2012/09/10/61c5eac6-fb7f-11e1-b153-218509a954e1_story.html
The presidential race has been stable for months but not in a way favorable to
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, as in courtship, organization is usually a poor substitute for passion.

Bringing energy into the spotlight only hurts Obama- it unifies the republican base and splits the dems
Kemp 12 COLUMN-Romney, Obama both evade key energy issues: Kemp Fri Aug 24, 2012 6:44pm IST (John Kemp is a Reuters market analyst. The views expressed are his own) http://in.reuters.com/article/2012/08/24/column-kemp-energy-us-vote-idINL6E8JO9SC20120824
Both campaigns are keen to highlight their energy policies (though Republicans seem markedly more
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and conservative-leaning districts rebelled against the president's decision to block Keystone.

Romney win crushes US-Russian relations leading to prolif and extinction
Felton 12 Emmanuel FeltoninWorld,Russia 03/12 Mitt Romney Russia Quotes Signal Big Problems For Future US-Russian Relations http://www.policymic.com/articles/6202/mitt-romney-russia-quotes-signal-big-problems-for-future-us-russian-relations
The importance of America’s alliance with Russia is highlighted by the very context of Obama
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, global security will continue to be undermined by an increasingly hostile Kremlin. 

Solar CP
The Defense Department should use a 30 year Power Purchase Agreement to implement and develop solar for military facilities.
The DoD use of a 30 year power purchase agreement makes creates a financial incentive to create solar energy. 

Stoltenberg April 2012 (Blaise Sr Engineer at National Renewable Energy Laboratory, “Funding Solar Projects at Federal Agencies: Mechanisms and Selection Criteria”, https://financere.nrel.gov/finance/content/funding-solar-projects-federal-agencies-power-purchase-agreements-energy-service-contracts-utility-enhanced-use-leases, Vance)
Federal on-site renewable power purchase agreements (PPAs) are contracts for energy
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in the first year and confirm form of payment is within agency's authority.

Solar saves the military grid

Castillo 2012 (Ariel, Ph.D., School of Engineering and Applied Science of The George Washington University, “Determination of Solar Energy Transition Potential of Large Organizations: An Application to Department of Defense Facilities and Non-Tactical Vehicles”, (http://gradworks.umi.com/3481180.pdf)CD)

2. Critical missions at military installations are vulnerable to loss from commercial power outage and inadequate backup power supplies” (DSB, 2008)39
Providing for distributed energy operations on DoD bases could help meet electric grid vulnerability challenges
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times and maintenance necessary for current base generators is provided at Figure 8.

Renewable DA
Transition to renewables coming now
Bowen ’12
Currently a businessman, Robert Bowen served in the Colorado legislature in the 1980s as a moderate Democrat. He was also appointed by three different governors to serve on various boards and commissions. He has followed political news, national news headlines and international news closely for almost five decades.
8-22-12, Examiner, US carbon emissions are declining due to clean energy http://www.examiner.com/article/us-carbon-emissions-are-declining-due-to-clean-energy

A new report that studied 2,500 electrical power plants owned by 100 utilities
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the trend to clean energy that is showing results in our air quality.

Nuclear will crowd out
Toke 2010 (David [U of Birmingham, Emeritus prof Davide Elliot Open U]; Wrong Policy on Renewable Energy; Dec 27; GUARDIAN LEADER PAGES; Pg. 31; kdf)
We need a German-style system which offers open-ended opportunities to developers
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its electricity payments to be reserved for renewable energy, not nuclear power.

Renewables are key to sop extinction
Jagger 2008 (Bianca [Chair of World Future Council]; CQ Congressional Testimony; CAPITOL HILL HEARING TESTIMONY; Mar 6; kdf)
Jagger ’08 (Bianca, Chair, World Future Council, CQ Congressional Testimony, "RENEWABLE ENERGY," 3/6, lexis)
"If we go beyond the point where human intervention can no longer stabilise the
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precipitate cataclysmic changes in the earth system that could obliterate life on earth.
High oil prices result in alternative energies being competitive—staves off extinction
Helm 10/18/11 (Dieter [Economics Prof @ Oxford University]; The peak oil brigade is leading us into bad policymaking on energy; www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/oct/18/energy-price-volatility-policy-fossil-fuels; kdf)
Yet Chris Huhne, the British secretary of state for energy and climate change,
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much cheaper than all those offshore windfarms in the short to medium term.

Nuke – Econ Impact

Nuclear power is critical to creating jobs here at home and to maintain our economy.
NAM 08 (National Association of Manufacturers, Expanding Nuclear Capacity Will Create High-Wage Jobs, Says NAM, Jun. 17, 2008, http://news.thomasnet.com/companystory/545823 )
The National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) said today that expanding America’s nuclear capacity
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protect our environment and create good jobs here at home,” Engler concluded. 

The U.S. economy is key to the world economy.
Mead, Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, 2004 (Walter Russell Mead, Foreign Policy, 4/1/04 pg. Lexis)

Similarly, in the last 60 years, as foreigners have acquired a greater value
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S. leadership. U.S. economic might is sticky power. 

Growth solves poverty – US imports, credit, and commodity prices
Haass 8
Richard. President of the Council on Foreign Relations. 11/8/8. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122611110847810599.html.

The recession is sure to strengthen trade protectionism. This is a big setback,
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We should not be surprised when governments fail and societies suffer from violence.

Poverty outweighs nuclear war
Gilligan 96
James, professor of Psychiatry at the Harvard Medical School, Director of the Center for the Study of Violence, and a member of the Academic Advisory Council of the National Campaign Against Youth Violence. Violence: Our Deadly Epidemic and its Causes.. P. 191-196. 

The 14 to 18 million deaths a year caused by structural violence compare with about
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for they are inextricably related to each other, as cause to effect.

Uranium DA
Peak uranium will happen by 2070, much faster if the US builds more reactors
Burke et al 2012 (Tom; Tony Juniper; Jonathon Porritt; and Charles Secrett; Climate Change and Energy Security; Apr 27; www.jonathonporritt.com/sites/default/files/users/BRIEFING%205%20-%20Climate_and%20energy%20security_27_April%202012.pdf; kdf)
However, neither the IAEA nor the OECDNEA reports address the problem of ore ¶
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¶ of these countries has the potential to ¶ cause serious price fluctuations. 

This means a switch to more dangerous fuels and reprocessing
WSJ 2008 (Peak Uranium: What's Goining to Fuel all those nuclear plants?; Dec 19; blogs.wsj.com/environmentalcapital/2008/12/19/peak-uranium-whats-going-to-fuel-all-those-nuclear-plants/; kdf)
How’s that? Recent years have seen an explosion in uranium exploration after two quiet
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-term availability of nuclear energy from a century to thousands of years.”

Reprocessing causes prolif
Union of Concerned Scientists 2011 (Nuclear Reprocessing: Dangerous, Dirty, and Expensive; www.ucsusa.org/nuclear_power/nuclear_power_risk/nuclear_proliferation_and_terrorism/nuclear-reprocessing.html; kdf)
Reprocessing would increase the ease of nuclear proliferation.
U.S. reprocessing would undermine the U.S. goal of halting
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, all reprocessing technologies are far more proliferation-prone than direct disposal.
Nuclear proliferation risks extinction
Krieger, 2009 Pres. Nuclear Age Peace Foundation and Councilor – World Future Council, (David, “Still Loving the Bomb After All These Years”, 9-4, https://www.wagingpeace.org/articles/2009/09/04_krieger_newsweek_response.php?krieger)//AA

Jonathan Tepperman’s article in the September 7, 2009 issue of Newsweek, “Why
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Jong-Il and his successors are more rational than Mr. Tepperman?

Benetar
The asymmetry between pleasure and pain means we a have duty not to bring new people into the world- the pleasures of existence cannot outweigh the suffering that occurs
Benatar 6 professor of philosophy and head of the Department of Philosophy at the University of Cape Town in Cape Town, South Africa.  Better to Have Never Been. Oxford: Claredon Press p. 29-32
Optimists will be quick to note that I have not told the whole¶ story
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(given that there would be nobody who would be deptived of it).

Extinction  is inevitable- delaying it only makes suffering worse
Benatar 6 professor of philosophy and head of the Department of Philosophy at the University of Cape Town in Cape Town, South Africa.  Better to Have Never Been. Oxford: Claredon Press p. 163-164
Trillions of conscious beings inhabit our planet. Exponentially¶ more have already lived.
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equal, if¶ humans continued to exist for as long as possible.

Cap
The affirmative only makes energy production easier and thus cheaper, the logic of capitalism dictates that this only increases consumption resulting in extinction of the planet
Foster et al 2010 (John Bellamy [prof of sociology @ U of Oregon], Brett Clark [Assistant prof of sociology @ NC State U] and Richard York [assoc. prof of sociology @ U of Oregon]; Capitalism and the Curse of Energy Efficiency; Nov 1; http://monthlyreview.org/2010/11/01/capitalism-and-the-curse-of-energy-efficiency; kdf)

The Jevons Paradox was forgotten in the heyday of the age of petroleum during the
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equality, human development, community, and sustainability are the explicit goals.

Capitalism’s naturalization of the process of subjugation creates social exclusion on a global scale – the ultimate ethico-political responsibility is to challenge the foundations of this system’s organization principles. This makes reaching the Universal impossible.

Zizek and Daly 2004 (Slavoj and Glyn, Conversations with Zizek, 14-6)

For Zizek it is imperative that we cut through this Gord¬ian knot of
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the abject Other to that of a 'glitch' in an otherwise sound matrix.

Thus the Alternative: Vote negative to do nothing

Doing nothing is not just sitting and waiting for the moment to attack—it is the only genuine political actit is an act of abstaining from the depoliticized gameboard of capitalism by refusing to play their game—ultimately withdrawing past the point of commodification

Zizek 2008 (Slavoj, [Senior researcher at the Institute of Sociology, University of Ljubljana], Violence: Big Ideas small books. Picador, pg(s) 213-7, kdf)

Last but not least, the lesson of the intricate rela¬tionship between subjective and systemic
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political act: it forcefully confronts us with the vacuity of today's democracies.

Solar Solvency
Solar development occurs on Native American burial grounds.

Stein August 2012 (Steve is a writer and financial adviser Policy Review, Board of Trustees of Leland Stanford Junior University, “The Environmentalist’s Dilemma”,¶ http://www.hoover.org/publications/policy-review/article/123656, Vance)

Currently, the Bureau….sacred burial grounds.

Reviews are necessary to protect the environment and biodiversity
Kraemer 2011 (Suasan; Obama has Nearly Quadrupled Renewable Energy on Public Lands; Dec 31; cleantechnica.com/2011/12/31/obama-has-nearly-quadrupled-renewable-energy-on-public-lands/; kdf)
The last one to be approved in 2011 was the Centinela Solar Energy Project in
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when the DOI laid out this plan at the beginning of this administration.

Solar reviews take over one year
Office of the Press Secretary 2012 (We Can’t Wait: Obama Administration Announces Seven Major Renewable Energy Infrastructure Projects that Would Power 1.5 million Homes to be Expedited; Aug 7; www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2012/08/07/we-can-t-wait-obama-administration-announces-seven-major-renewable-energ; kdf)
Moapa Solar Energy Center (RES Americas)¶ State: NV¶ Coordinating Agency:
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large-scale solar projects on tribal lands in the U.S.

Solvency Nuclear DoD

SMRs have greater problems with waste disposal
Makhijani and Boyd 10 (September, ARJUN MAKHIJANI, electrical and nuclear engineer who is President of the Institute for Energy and Environmental Research AND MICHELE BOYD, former director of the Safe Energy Program at Physicians for Social Responsibility, Small Modular Reactors  No Solution for the Cost, Safety, and Waste Problems of Nuclear Power, www.psr.org/nuclear-bailout/.../small-modular-reactors-no.pdf,)

Proponents claim that with longer operation on a single fuel charge and with less production
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kilowatt of capacity than faced by present-day above- ground reactors.

SMRs aren’t any safer than other reactors
Forbes 12 (Small Modular Nuclear Reactors By 2022 But No Market For Them 12 Forbes McMahon 0523, Forbes Magazine, TECH | 5/23/2012 @ 3:03PM |5,221 views
Jeff McMahon, Contributor From Chicago, I cover green technology, energy, and the environment.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffmcmahon/2012/05/23/small-modular-reactors-by-2022-but-no-market-for-them/)

Senate staff also heard criticism of the Administration’s hopes for SMRs from Edwin Lyman,
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, and in order to remedy these oversights, regulation should be revisited.

SMR incentives bad
Nuclear Information and Resource Service 2010 (“S517 is fatally flawed”, http://www.nirs.org/nukerelapse/congactions/s517fatallyflawed.htm ) RCM
The Senate Energy Bill, S 517 IS FATALLY FLAWED¶ S 517 provides nuclear
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past experience), the cost of this bill becoming law remains too high.
 
DoD fails at innovation- they try to overstretch capabilities
Sarewitz and Thernstrom 12 (Daniel and Samual, Co-Directors Bipartisan Policy Center and the Nathan Cummings Foundation, “ENERGY INNOVATION at the DEPARTMENT of DEFENSE ASSESSING the OPPORTUNITIES”, (access via Scribd CD)
  The separation and largely independent management of research and system design set DoD apart
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latest example, one that absorbed $20 billion in RDT&E expenditures 

Heidegger

The AFF’s approach to reduction of the natural world to a means of securing energy enframes existence, stripping beings of their very essence.

Beckman 0 
~[Tad, Harvey Mudd College, "Martin Heidegger and Environmental Ethics," http://www2.hmc.edu/~tbeckman/personal/Heidart.html //-http://www2.hmc.edu/tbeckman/personal/Heidart.html // myost~]
To uncover the essence of modern technology is to discover why technology stands today as
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their subjective status of standing-ready for human design. (8)

The AFF’s ontology reduces the world to "Standing Reserve" to be called upon as it benefits the Self and refuses to value the world as anything else. This renders all beings objects—setting the tone for global warfare.

Zimmerman 81
~[Michael E. Zimmerman, Tulane University. Eclipse of the Self: The Development of Heidegger’s Concept of Authenticity. 220-224.  myost~]
In 1951 Heidegger noted that Spengler’s idea of the "decline of the West"
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is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser.

The alternative is to do nothing. 

This isn’t a question of passivity but of a releasement from the Will to Technology and an openness to the mystery of Being which transcends activity. Only such an ontological disarmament inaugurates new modes of revealing that don’t depend on the world’s subordination to human motivations.====

McWhorter 92
~[Ladelle McWhorter, University of Richmond. Heidegger and the Earth: Issues in Environmental Philosophy. Kirksville, MO: Truman State University Press, 1992. 3-7.  myost~]
Heidegger’s work is a call to reflect to think in some way other than calculatively
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threatens our very being, the configurations of subjective existence in our age.

Markets DA Shell

Private sector making massive investments in the energy sector now- market solutions key to competitive energy industries

Nelson 12 James B. Nelson President, Solar 3D INC Testimony, 5/16/2012 Subcommittee on Regulatory Affairs, Stimulus Oversight, and Government Spending http://oversight.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/5-16-12-RegAffairs-Nelson.pdf-http://oversight.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/5-16-12-RegAffairs-Nelson.pdf
U.S. adoption of solar energy currently lags behind several nations, including
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can only be achieved by innovation, not by having government fund commercialization.

Financial incentives undermine innovation

Shah 11 It’s Time to Kill Permanent Energy Subsidies¶ BY JIGAR SHAH CEO of the Carbon War Room, a nonprofit that harnesses the power of entrepreneurs to implement market-driven solutions to climate change and create a post-carbon economy | MAY 4, 2011 http://www.fastcompany.com/1751390/its-time-kill-permanent-energy-subsidies-http://www.fastcompany.com/1751390/its-time-kill-permanent-energy-subsidies
Permanent subsidies don’t create jobs and sharpen the competitive edges of new companies. Instead
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to big problems that are bad for business have no hope of success.

Innovation key to the economy-turns the aff

Edwards and DeHaven 12 Corporate Welfare Spending vs. the Entrepreneurial Economy by Chris Edwards and Tad DeHaven House Budget Committee This testimony was delivered on June 1, 2012. Fellows at the CATO Institute http://www.cato.org/publications/congressional-testimony/corporate-welfare-spending-vs-entrepreneurial-economy-http://www.cato.org/publications/congressional-testimony/corporate-welfare-spending-vs-entrepreneurial-economy
Most of America’s technological and industrial advances have come from innovative private businesses in competitive
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are usually quickly exposed and businesses cut their losses short and change direction.

WIPP CP

The United States federal government will open up the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant for the storage of commercial nuclear waste.

WIPP is safe for long term storage- solves all of the advantage

Miller TODAY 9/23/12 New Mexico holds nuclear waste key Consent-based storage model a proven success. By WILLIAM H. MILLER professor emeritus at the Missouri University Research Reactor and the Nuclear Science and Engineering Institute Sunday, September 23, 2012 http://www.columbiatribune.com/news/2012/sep/23/new-mexico-holds-nuclear-waste-key/-http://www.columbiatribune.com/news/2012/sep/23/new-mexico-holds-nuclear-waste-key/
As a way to dispose of the nation’s high-level nuclear waste, it
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and the defense program, the place to begin is southeastern New Mexico.