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Welcome to the revolution… this is Prescription for the Planet.

BLEES 2005 Prescription for the planet The Painless Remedy for our Energy and Environmental Crises http://www.thesciencecouncil.com/pdfs/P4TP4U.pdf

I'd like to invite you to a revolution ... that the project was not to be publicized.

First, the squo places us on a slow road to collapse

The idea of easy oil or renewables as a panacea is dangerous – neither will be able to fill our need for energy in the coming years

Steffy, 2011.  Loren, business columnist for Houston Chronicle and author, “Drowning in Oil,” fuelfix.com, December 19, http:~/~/fuelfix.com/blog/2011/12/19/loren-steffy-the-myths-of-untapped-oil/http://fuelfix.com/blog/2011/12/19/loren-steffy-the-myths-of-untapped-oil/(%%)

Keep in mind that ... we risk waiting until it's too late. 

The nuclear race is in full swing – global development is inevitable.

The energy Collective July 31, 2012 Worldwide Nuclear Energy Expansion Continueshttp://theenergycollective.com/breakthroughinstitut/98406/worldwide-nuclear-energy-expansion-continues

Global production of nuclear ... their own Gen III reactor designs."

The only question is whether the US will take the lead or slide to the back…

Hence the plan : The United States Federal government should fund research and development for Integral Fast Reactors including capital investment in a pilot plant.

The Plan Solves

IFRs are almost 100% efficient, provide a solution to our nuclear waste problems, solve the risk of prolif and are a huge economic opportunity for the US

Steve Kirsch 11/25/2009 Why We Should Build an Integral Fast Reactor Now http://skirsch.wordpress.com/2009/11/25/ifr/

Nuclear is our best clean power ... benefit and our planet too. 

Now is key time:  Congressional approval of capital investment for a pilot plant must be done now – delay means the option will be lost

 Steve Kirsch 8/10/2008 The Integral Fast Reactor (IFR) project http://skirsch.com/politics/globalwarming/ifr.htm

From a risk management point of view, ... or that option will be lost forever.

Conversion from our current electricity infrastructure to nuclear power is possible within a decade easily – France proves – and IFR makes it even easier

 Tom Blees May 31, 2012 Nuclear Roads Not Taken (Yet) in Germany, Japan and the US http://theenergycollective.com/barrybrook/86298/roads-not-taken-yet

The team at Argonne National lab that developed ... using PRISM systems within about a decade.

Congressional action is key – left to its own devices, DOE will just continue to research

 Steve Kirsch 11/25/2009 Why We Should Build an Integral Fast Reactor Now http://skirsch.wordpress.com/2009/11/25/ifr/

How is it that we need more research today ... then that’s what we will get: nothing.

IFR solves the waste problem by making it fuel – waste becomes a marketable commodity and what is left has a dramatically shorter storage need

 Steve Kirsch 11/25/2009 Why We Should Build an Integral Fast Reactor Now http://skirsch.wordpress.com/2009/11/25/ifr/

Solves the waste problem now. President ... The DOE would have to supervise the storage.¶

The Reactor is Inherently safe – survived Chernobyl and Three Mile Island disaster tests without incident

 Charles E. Till¶ (Adapted from a series of four articles, entitled Plentiful Energy, the IFR Story, and Related Matters, in THE REPUBLIC News and Issues Magazine, June-September 2005. Preface by Terry Robinson.) http://www.sustainablenuclear.org/PADs/pad0509till.html

The new safety characteristics of the reactor ... again with a quiet, damage-free shutdown.

Competitiveness

Scenario I – China

The lack of government support for domestic nuclear power is threatening to leave us chasing China in Asian hegemony

SCOTT CULLINANE  28 SEPTEMBER 2011 America Falling Behind: The Strategic Dimensions of Chinese Commercial Nuclear Energy http:~/~/www.ensec.org/index.php?option=com_contentandview=articleandid=319:america-falling-behind-the-strategic-dimensions-of-chinese-commercial-nuclear-energyandcatid=118:contentandItemid=376url:http://www.ensec.org/index.php?option=com_contentandview=articleandid=319:america-falling-behind-the-strategic-dimensions-of-chinese-commercial-nuclear-energyandcatid=118:contentandItemid=376

While America's nuclear industry has languished ... Nuclear technology provides a clear example of this.

And China is doubling down on nuclear power

PEOPLE’S DAILY ONLINE, 2011  “China approves 10 more nuclear power generators,” January 26, http:~/~/english.peopledaily.com.cn/90001/90778/90862/7272628.html

China is expected to raise its 2020 target for the ... accounting for 50 to 60 percent of the total.

A domestic nuclear industry is key to keeping our edge – without it China will outpace us in energy policy creating a shift in the balance of power globally

 SCOTT CULLINANE  28 SEPTEMBER 2011 America Falling Behind: The Strategic Dimensions of Chinese Commercial Nuclear Energy http:~/~/www.ensec.org/index.php?option=com_contentandview=articleandid=319:america-falling-behind-the-strategic-dimensions-of-chinese-commercial-nuclear-energyandcatid=118:contentandItemid=376url:http://www.ensec.org/index.php?option=com_contentandview=articleandid=319:america-falling-behind-the-strategic-dimensions-of-chinese-commercial-nuclear-energyandcatid=118:contentandItemid=376

In the context of US – PRC relations... conforms to strategy in order for the US to advance its position.

The U.S. is the only thing standing between great power competitions in Asia – arms races, miscalc and all-out conflict would result

Khalilzad, 2011 (Writer of Heg Cards, Feb 8, http://www.nationalreview.com/author/259022/latest)

 We face this domestic challenge while other ... significant barrier facing Chinese hegemony and aggression.

These conflicts go nuclear

UK Defence Forum, 2003  Regional Studies 8: “Conflict In The South China Sea,” Jan 20, 2003 http://www.ukdf.org.uk/regional/rs8.htm

The oil rich and strategically important ... because they think they can get away with it.

Scenario 2 – Hegemony

The lack of government support for domestic nuclear power destroys US competitiveness

 SCOTT CULLINANE  28 SEPTEMBER 2011 America Falling Behind: The Strategic Dimensions of Chinese Commercial Nuclear Energy http:~/~/www.ensec.org/index.php?option=com_contentandview=articleandid=319:america-falling-behind-the-strategic-dimensions-of-chinese-commercial-nuclear-energyandcatid=118:contentandItemid=376url:http://www.ensec.org/index.php?option=com_contentandview=articleandid=319:america-falling-behind-the-strategic-dimensions-of-chinese-commercial-nuclear-energyandcatid=118:contentandItemid=376

http://www.ensec.org/index.php?option=com_contentandview=articleandid=319:america-falling-behind-the-strategic-dimensions-of-chinese-commercial-nuclear-energyandcatid=118:contentandItemid=376

History has recorded well American wartime ... nuclear energy changes the strategic calculus for America

US competitiveness key to maintaining peace – without it we will have frequent crises and major wars – history proves

Khalilzad, 2011 (, Feb 8, http://www.nationalreview.com/author/259022/latest)

We face this domestic challenge while ... Chinese hegemony and aggression