Tournament: Pflaum Debates | Round:  | Opponent:  | Judge:
Plan: The United States Federal Government should substantially increase market-fixed production cost incentives for domestic deployment of small modular nuclear reactors

Advantage 1: Nuclear Renaissance
A. 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

B. 30 countries are expanding nuclear energy policies
Reuters 8/16 “IAEA sees strong interest in nuclear power despite Fukushima”, Aug 16, 2012, accessed September 1, 2012, http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/08/16/nuclear-energy-iaea-idUSL6E8JG7UO20120816

C. US SMRs allow us to shape international nuclear energy policies
Rosner and Goldberg 2011 (Robert Rosner, astrophysicist and founding director of the Energy Policy Institute at Chicago, and Stephen Goldberg, Special Assistant to the Director at the Argonne National Laboratory, Energy Policy Institute at Chicago, “Small Modular Reactors – Key to Future Nuclear Power Generation in the U.S.”, Technical Paper, Revision 1, November 2011) 

D. Old reactor types make meltdowns inevitable
Gronlund 07 (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) 

E. SMRs solve – no risk of melt down
Wheeler 10 (November 22, 2010, “Small Modular Reactors May Offer Significant Safety and Security Enhancements”, John Wheeler, Clear Trend, http://thisweekinnuclear.com/?p=1193) JD

F. Meltdowns cause extinction
Lendman 11(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)

G. Old reactor types make nuke terror inevitable- They’ll steal fissile material
Early 09 (Bryan (Former Research Fellow at Harvard’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs), Matthew Fuhrmann (Professor in Political Science at Texas AandM) and Quan Li (Professor in Political Science at Texas AandM), “Atoms for Terror: The Determinants of Nuclear/Radiological Terrorism”, Social Science Research Network, RSR)

H. Terrorists use aircrafts to trigger a meltdown.
Schifman 10 (Ben, J.D. Candidate at the Columbia School of Law, “The Limits of NEPA:  Consideration of the Impacts of Terrorism in Environmental Impact Statements for Nuclear Facilities, Columbia Journal of Environmental Law, Vol. 35, No. 2, pg. 374, RSR)

I. SMRs solve - they’re buried underground, heavily layered and no on-site refueling
Loudermilk 11 (Micah, research associate with the Energy and Environmental Security Policy program at National Defense University, “Small Nuclear Reactors and US Energy Security: Concepts, Capabilities, and Costs”, Journal of Energy Security, 5-31-11,
http://www.ensec.org/index.php?view=articleandcatid=116%3Acontent0411andid=314%3Asmall-nuclear-reactors-and-us-energy-security-concepts-capabilities-and-costsandtmpl=componentandprint=1andpage=andoption=com_contentandItemid=375, accessed 8-1-12, RSR)

J. Nuclear terrorism causes retaliation that sparks global nuclear war and extinction.
Ayson 2010 (Robert, Professor of Strategic Studies and Director of the Centre for Strategic Studies: New Zealand –  Victoria University of Wellington, “After a Terrorist Nuclear Attack: Envisaging Catalytic Effects”, Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, 33(7), July)

Advantage 2: Space
A. First, Space Colonization Is Not Inevitable, Nuclear Power Advances Are Crucial to Tech Development for Long Term Space
Lee Rannals (staff) 9/3/2012
"Space Colonies Will Need State Of The Art LEDs For Success" online @ http://www.redorbit.com/news/space/1112686173/lunar-colony-led-lighting-090312/, loghry

B. And, Modular Nuclear Tech IS Key to Long Term Colonies
Tina M. Casey; August 29th, 2011; (http://idealab.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/08/nasa-testing-suitcase-sized-nukes-to-power-colonies-on-remote-planets.php) Specializes in military and corporate sustainability, advanced technology, emerging materials, biofuels, and water and wastewater issues. Professional background includes three years as Deputy Director of Public Affairs for the New York City Department of Environmental Protection, and two years as a researcher for the city’s Department of Consumer Affairs

C. And, Subsidies Are Key
Leonard David; February 23rd, 2012; (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/46500071/ns/technology_and_science-space/t/air-force-space-plan-calls-nuclear-reactors/) Owner of SDRandI; reporter at space.com, Space News, AIAA Aerospace America etc.; multiple time author on space literature; “Air Force space plan calls for nuclear reactors”

D. And, Low Level Power Generation Means No Risk of Meltdowns in Space
Fox News (staff) 8/29/2011
“Miniature Nuclear Reactor to Power Mars and Moon Colonies” online @ http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/08/29/miniature-nuclear-reactor-to-power-mars-and-moon-colonies/, loghry

E. First, It’s TRY OR DIE, Humanity is on Death Row—Global Extinction is Inevitable Without Space
George Dvorsky (Author, Staff @ io9) 8/30/2012 "How Self-Sustaining Space Habitats Could Save Humanity from Extinction" online @ http://io9.com/5939232/how-self+sustaining-space-habitats-could-save-humanity-from-extinction, loghry

F. THE PLANET IS POST BRINK -- EXTINCTION BY 2030 WITHOUT SPACE
Ted Thornhill (staff) 5/16/2012
"WWF Living Planet Report Warns That By 2030 Two Earths Will Be Needed To Sustain Our Lifestyles" online @ http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2012/05/16/wwf-warns-that-we-will-need-two-earths-by-2030_n_1520449.html, loghry

G. Going to space grants humanity the overview effect, which transforms our conception of the earth from a “property” to our living home.
Lovelock (Inventor: Gaia theory, fellow Royal Society, fellow Green College: Oxford) 06
James, The Revenge of Gaia p. 135-136, loghry

H. That mindset shift is crucial to avoid complete planetary annihilation
Lovelock (Inventor: Gaia theory, fellow Royal Society, fellow Green College: Oxford) 06
James, The Revenge of Gaia p. 17, loghry

I. And we must physically go to space for ecological and social consciousness shift –just seeing pictures or reading about it cannot solve
Tariq Malik (Senior Editor) 4/22/09
“Planet Earth a Fragile Oasis, Astronauts Say” online @ http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/090422-astronauts-earth-day.html, loghry

J. First, the DRAKE EQUATION PROVES 1 MILLION TO 10,000 ALIEN CIVILIZATIONS EXIST
Clara Moskowitz (Space.com sr. writer) 8/16/2010
“Proof of Aliens Could Come Within 25 Years, Scientist Says” @ http://www.space.com/searchforlife/alien-life-soon-seticon-100816.html, loghry

K. and, WOLFE-SIMON BACTERIA DOUBLES THAT
BBC News (staff) 12/15/2010
“The Drake Equation and the search for new lifeforms” online @ http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-11990878, loghry

L. Space exploration and development risks contact
Moskcowitz11 Clara, writer for Christian Science Monitor, CSM, “Ignoring Stephen Hawking-NASA will continue to search for extraterrestrial life” 4/28/11, http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2010/0428/Ignoring-Stephen-Hawking-NASA-will-search-for-extraterrestrial-life, accessed 6/26/11, HK 

M. Contact would unify humanity and end racism, sexism and human discrimination as a whole.
Michael A.G. Michaud 2007 Contact with Alien Civilixations: Our hopes and Fears about Encountering Extraterrestrials” (Author of over one hundred published works, Michael Michaud was a U.S. Foreign Service officer for 32 years before turning full time to writing. ) 

N.  Thinking about contact alone benefits human society in numerous ways, this outweighs spending and otherwise. Without asking these questions humanity is stalled out and the entropy process will begin. It is necessary we continue to search, for our own development and maintenance.
Michael A.G. Michaud 2007 Contact with Alien Civilixations: Our hopes and Fears about Encountering Extraterrestrials” (Author of over one hundred published works, Michael Michaud was a U.S. Foreign Service officer for 32 years before turning full time to writing. ) 

Solvency:
A. Government Incentives are Key to Fast Development of SMR and to Avoiding Cost Premiums; This Dodges Cost Arguments
Rosner and Goldberg 2011(Robert (William E. Wrather Distinguished Service Professor in the Departments of Astronomy and Astrophysics and Physics) and Stephen (Special Assistant to the Director at the Argonne National Laboratory) , Energy Policy Institute at Chicago, “Small Modular Reactors – Key to Future Nuclear Power Generation in the U.S.”, Technical Paper, Revision 1, November 2011, https://epic.sites.uchicago.edu/sites/epic.uchicago.edu/files/uploads/EPICSMRWhitePaperFinalcopy.pdf, accessed 8-29-12)

B. Production cost incentives would attract investors
Rosner and Goldberg 2011(Robert (William E. Wrather Distinguished Service Professor in the Departments of Astronomy and Astrophysics and Physics) and Stephen (Special Assistant to the Director at the Argonne National Laboratory) , Energy Policy Institute at Chicago, “Small Modular Reactors – Key to Future Nuclear Power Generation in the U.S.”, Technical Paper, Revision 1, November 2011, https://epic.sites.uchicago.edu/sites/epic.uchicago.edu/files/uploads/EPICSMRWhitePaperFinalcopy.pdf, accessed 8-29-12)

C. DOE Applications of SMR Tech Will Be Utilized by the Air Force
Michael B. Donley and (Secretary of the USAF) Norton A. Schwartz (General, USAF and Chief of Staff) 1/31/2012
“Energy Horizons” United States Air Force Energy SandT Vision, online @ http://www.af.mil/shared/media/document/AFD-120209-060.pdf, loghry

D. Terrestrial Reactors are a Pre-Requisite for Space Based Applications
IAEA (INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY) 2005
“THE ROLE OF NUCLEAR POWER AND NUCLEAR PROPULSION IN  THE PEACEFUL EXPLORATION  OF SPACE” online @ http://www-pub.iaea.org/MTCD/publications/PDF/Pub1197_web.pdf, loghry

Tournament:  | Round:  | Opponent:  | Judge:
Perm: Do Both—Pass plan while acknowledging the harms of  capitalism—solves 100% of their offense
Rothkrug 90 (Paul, Founder – Environmental Rescue Fund, Monthly Review, March, 41(10), p. 38)

Anti-neoliberal alternatives are slow – aff impacts happen first
Grabel 11I lene, “Spotlight G20: Speeding From Hopeful to Hopeless,” http://www.truth-out.org/spotlight-g20-speeding-hopeful-hopeless/1319471917

First, Capitalism Is the Engine That Drives Space, Leads to New Resources and Colonization
Biblett ’01 (Prof., Communications and Multimedia @ Edith Cowan University, Dr. Rod, “Space Power and Information Superiority” online @ http://www.globenet.free-online.co.uk/articles/spacepower.htm October 2001esu-loghry) 

Also, We Dodge This—Space Solves All the Reasons You Say Capitalism is Bad. It Makes the Limited Unlimited, and Provides Equity For All
Micklethwait 1994 (desktop publisher, libertarian) (Brian, “The Fixed Quantity of Wealth Fallacy: How to Make Yourself Miserable About the Past, the Present, and the Future of Mankind” Economic Notes No. 58 online @ http://www.libertarian.org/LA/wealth.html1994/  esu—loghry) 

Tournament: UMKC | Round: Elims | Opponent:  | Judge:
The solution must arise from the technology that created the problem – the plan and alt function together to restore the world.
Beckman 2k Tad: Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, Humanities and Social Sciences at Harvey Mudd College, “Martin Heidegger and Environmental Ethics,” http://www2.hmc.edu/~tbeckman/personal/Heidart.html.

The plan is not the dangerous technological mindset that Heidegger warns against – using technology is not the same as relying on tech enframing.
Dreyfus 96 Hubert, “Being and Power: Heidegger and Foucault” University of California Berkeley http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~hdreyfus/html/paper_being.html

Technology can be used without assigning meaning
Dreyfus 96 Hubert, “Being and Power: Heidegger and Foucault” University of California Berkeley http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~hdreyfus/html/paper_being.html

Regardless of whether some predictions have been incorrect-rejecting debates about them along with all strategic risk planning will only cause policy makers to fill the void with their personal beliefs of threat levels.  
Michael Fitzsimmons, Washington DC Defense Analyst, 2007. From “The Problem of Uncertainty in Strategic Planning.” Survival. Winter 2006-7

The terminal impact to the rejection of scenario planning is endless catastrophe.
Fuyuki Kurasawa, Professor of Sociology York University of Toronto. 2004. From Constellations Vol. 11. No.4

Anti-Science Kills Space
John Hickman (Associate Professor of Political Science at Berry College in Mt. Berry, Georgia) 12/24/2010
“Why don't people understand the urgency of colonizing other planets?” Excerpt from the book Reopening the Space Frontier, online @ http://io9.com/5717779/why-dont-people-understand-the-urgency-of-colonizing-other-planets, loghry

Utilitarianism inevitable even in deontological frameworks
Green 2 (Assistant Professor Department of Psychology Harvard University Joshua, November 2002, 314) JFS

The recent possibility of extinction requires assessment of all risks despite probability
Yudkowsky 8 (Full-time Research Fellow at the Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence and Cofounder Eliezer, January 22nd 2008, “Circular Altruism”)JFS

The alt cedes the political
Shaw 99, professor of IR at the University of Sussex, 1999  (Martin, “The Unfinished Global Revolution: Intellectuals and the New Politics of International Relations”, http://sussex.ac.uk/Users/hafa3/unfinished.pdf)

The impact is extinction, the refusal to engage in traditional politics is an abdication of social responsibility that makes social crises inevitable
Boggs 97 (Carl, National University, Los Angeles, Theory and Society, “The great retreat: Decline of the public sphere in late twentieth-century America”, December, Volume 26, Number 6, http://www.springerlink.com.proxy.library.emory.edu/content/m7254768m63h16r0/fulltext.pdf)

Tournament: UMKC | Round: Elims | Opponent:  | Judge:
The permutation solves best—Reformism is necessary to reduce war in the short-term and maintains the alt’s transformation
Murray 97, professor of politics at the University of Wales, 1997  (Alistair, Reconstructing Realism: Between Power Politics and Cosmopolitan Ethics, netlibrary)

And, Critics of realism provide zero support for the assertion that an alternative world is possible
Murray 97, professor of politics at the University of Wales, 1997  (Alistair, Reconstructing Realism: Between Power Politics and Cosmopolitan Ethics, netlibrary)

Realism is accurate, states are good, their alt doesn’t solve and it causes war, this is a turn to the K
Solomon 96 (Hussein, Senior Researcher, Human Security Project, Institute for Defence Policy, “In Defence of Realism,” African Security Review, Vol 5, No 2, http://www.iss.co.za/pubs/ASR/5No2/5No2/InDefence.html)

Utilitarianism inevitable even in deontological frameworks
Green 2 (Assistant Professor Department of Psychology Harvard University Joshua, November 2002, 314) JFS

Regardless of their original intentions, they are responsbile for the greater impacts.
Sissela Bok, Professor of Philosophy @ Brandies. 1988. From “Applied Ethics and Ethical Theory.”

all lives are infinitely valuable. The only ethical option is to maximize the number saved.
David Cummisky, Professor of Philosophy @ Bates College. 1996. “Kantian Consequentialism.” Pg. 131

Tournament: UCO | Round: 4 | Opponent: JCCC | Judge: Mandy Frank

Plan: The Department of Defense, the Department of Energy, and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration should sign a memorandum of understanding relating to the development, design, delivery, and operational support of civilian space nuclear reactors within NASA. The memorandum should include a provision to procure, through alternative financing, electricity from small modular reactors.

SPACE ADV

A. Manned space is a pipe dream – not coming any time soon

NATE SMITH (staff) 10/17/2012

“Oh. Space Rocks. Cool.” Online @ http://www.lanthorn.com/article/2012/10/oh-space-rocks-cool-http://www.lanthorn.com/article/2012/10/oh-space-rocks-cool-, loghry

It’s safe to say that nobody …their trip abroad. This sucks.

B. Space Colonization Is Not Inevitable, Nuclear Power Advances Are Crucial to Tech Development for Long Term Space

Lee Rannals (staff) 9/3/2012

"Space Colonies Will Need State Of The Art LEDs For Success" online @ http://www.redorbit.com/news/space/1112686173/lunar-colony-led-lighting-090312/, loghry

Bruce Dorminey, a science … need to establish technologies.

C. Modular Nuclear Tech IS Key to Long Term Colonies

Tina M. Casey; August 29^th, 2011; (http:~/~/idealab.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/08/php(% style="font-size:8.0pt;color:#0D0D0D" %)) Specializes in military and corporate sustainability, advanced technology, emerging materials, biofuels, and water and wastewater issues. Professional background includes three years as Deputy Director of Public Affairs for the New York City Department of Environmental Protection, and two years as a researcher for the city’s Department of Consumer Affairs

The small size of the … the Stirling engine.

D. Subsidies Are Key

Leonard David; February 23^rd, 2012; (http:~/~/www.msnbc.msn.com/id/46500071/ns/technology_and_science-space/t/air-force-space-plan-calls-nuclear-reactors/http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/46500071/ns/technology_and_science-space/t/air-force-space-plan-calls-nuclear-reactors/(%%)) Owner of SDRandI; reporter at space.com, Space News, AIAA Aerospace America etc.; multiple time author on space literature; “Air Force space plan calls for nuclear reactors”

In terms of nuclear … Advisory Board.

E. Low Level Power Generation Means No Risk of Meltdowns in Space

Fox News (staff) 8/29/2011

“Miniature Nuclear Reactor to Power Mars and Moon Colonies” online @ http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/08/29/miniature-nuclear-reactor-to-power-mars-and-moon-colonies/, loghry

Nuclear power has … just shut down."

3 IMPACTS:

F. First, It’s TRY OR DIE, Humanity is on Death Row—Global Extinction is Inevitable Without Space

George Dvorsky (Author, Staff @ io9) 8/30/2012 "How Self-Sustaining Space Habitats Could Save Humanity from Extinction" online @ http://io9.com/5939232/how-self+sustaining-space-habitats-could-save-humanity-from-extinction, loghry

This planet can't protect ….but to leave the cradle.

G. THE PLANET IS POST BRINK -- EXTINCTION BY 2030 WITHOUT SPACE

Ted Thornhill (staff) 5/16/2012

"WWF Living Planet Report Warns That By 2030 Two Earths Will Be Needed To Sustain Our Lifestyles" online @ http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2012/05/16/wwf-warns-that-we-will-need-two-earths-by-2030_n_1520449.html, loghry

Humans will need two … planets to support us.”

H. Colonization’s the only way to ensure human survival-~--we won’t be able to predict what causes extinction which means all counter-measures will fail

Gott 9 – J. Richard Gott, Professor of Astrophysics at Princeton University, July 17, 2009, “A GOAL FOR THE HUMAN SPACEFLIGHT PROGRAM,” online: http://www.nasa.gov/pdf/368985main_GottSpaceflightGoal.pdf

The goal of the human spaceflight …away from the Alexandrian library.

I. SMR propulsion has the potential to get humans anywhere in the solar system

John Farrell 12 writer for Forbes, “NASA Report Prioritizes Fission Power for Space Exploration”, February 7, 2012, accessed October 21, 2012, http://www.forbes.com/sites/johnfarrell/2012/02/07/nasa-report-prioritizes-fission-power-for-space-exploration/ 

Chairmam of the report’s steering …. teams and the momentum.”

SECOND IMPACT IS OVERVIEW EFFECT:

J. Going to space grants humanity the overview effect, which transforms our conception of the earth from a “property” to our living home.

Lovelock (Inventor: Gaia theory, fellow Royal Society, fellow Green College: Oxford) 06

James, The Revenge of Gaia p. 135-136, loghry

The concept of Gaia, a living …. life to include the Earth.

K. That mindset shift is crucial to avoid complete planetary annihilation

Lovelock (Inventor: Gaia theory, fellow Royal Society, fellow Green College: Oxford) 06

James, The Revenge of Gaia p. 17, loghry

Metaphor is important because…of it is no excuse for inaction.

L. we must physically go to space for ecological and social consciousness shift –just seeing pictures or reading about it cannot solve

Tariq Malik (Senior Editor) 4/22/09

“Planet Earth a Fragile Oasis, Astronauts Say” online @ http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/090422-astronauts-earth-day.html, loghry

Astronauts looking down …care of each other." 

M. It doesn't require everyone go to space

Frank White (Distinguished Visiting Professor at Kepler Space University, author of several books on space travel) 9/13/2011

"Universe QandA: Frank White" online @ http://scienceblogs.com/universe/2011/09/13/universe-qa-frank-white/, loghry

Universe: Do you believe it’s … to go back into space.

THIRD IS CONTACT

N. The drake equation proves 1 million to 10,000 alien civilizations exist

Clara Moskowitz (Space.com sr. writer) 8/16/2010

“Proof of Aliens Could Come Within 25 Years, Scientist Says” @ http://www.space.com/searchforlife/alien-life-soon-seticon-100816.html, loghry

SANTA CLARA, Calif. –… intelligence, Shostak said.

O.  WOLFE-SIMON BACTERIA DOUBLES THAT

BBC News (staff) 12/15/2010

“The Drake Equation and the search for new lifeforms” online @ http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-11990878, loghry

In 1960, Dr Frank Drake came…astrobiologist Dr Felisa Wolfe-Simon.

P. Space exploration and development leads to contact

Moskcowitz11 Clara, writer for Christian Science Monitor, CSM, “Ignoring Stephen Hawking-NASA will continue to search for extraterrestrial life” 4/28/11, http:~/~/www.csmonitor.com/Science/2010/0428/com/Science/2010/0428/Ignoring-Stephen-Hawking-NASA-will-search-for-extraterrestrial-life(%%), accessed 6/26/11, HK

Scientists haven't found E.T. …. where the data lead us."

Q. Contact would unify humanity and end racism, sexism and human discrimination as a whole.

Michael A.G. Michaud 2007 Contact with Alien Civilixations: Our hopes and Fears about Encountering Extraterrestrials” (Author of over one hundred published works, Michael Michaud was a U.S. Foreign Service officer for 32 years before turning full time to writing. )

If contact occurred, many …. by more advanced beings.

R. Thinking about contact alone benefits human society in numerous ways, this outweighs spending and otherwise. Without asking these questions humanity is stalled out and the entropy process will begin. It is necessary we continue to search, for our own development and maintenance.

Michael A.G. Michaud 2007 Contact with Alien Civilixations: Our hopes and Fears about Encountering Extraterrestrials” (Author of over one hundred published works, Michael Michaud was a U.S. Foreign Service officer for 32 years before turning full time to writing. )

Asking the question ….perspectives on our future.

Solvency

A. NASA AND THE DOE TERMINATED THE PREVIOUS MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING IN 2005

NASA Office of Exploration Systems 10/28/2005

“NASA Internal Memo: NASA Realigns Research and Technology to Accelerate CEV/CLV” online @ http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=18512, loghry

Funding at these lower levels also assumed that remaining JIMO project activity was concluded at the Phase A Project Mission Systems Review milestone and that support for Prometheus by the DOE’s Office of Naval Reactors will not continue. NASA has contacted the Office of Naval Reactors to initiate planning for termination actions on activities covered by the Memorandum of Understanding between NASA and DOE (National Nuclear Security Administration-Naval Reactors) regarding Civilian Space Nuclear Reactors. The bulk of the remaining FY 2005 and projected FY 2006 funds for this activity will be spent on termination costs.

B. MOU ENSURES ACQUISITION AND PROCUREMENT OF TECHNOLOGY

National Research Council (Committee on Assessment of Impediments to Interagency Cooperation on Space and Earth Science Missions) 2011

“ASSESSMENT OF IMPEDIMENTS TO INTERAGENCY COLLABORATION ON SPACE AND EARTH SCIENCE MISSIONS” online @ http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=13042, loghry

NOAA’s procurement from ….spacecraft and its instruments.

C. THE PLAN IS A DIRECT INCENTIVE FOR PRIVATE CONTRACTORS

National Research Council (Comm. on Priorities for Space Science Enabled by Nuclear Power and Propulsion) 2006

“Priorities in Space Science Enabled by Nuclear Power and Propulsion” online @ http://www.nap.edu/catalog/11432.html, loghry

In August 2004, NASA…, and science instruments.

D. LEGAL FRAMEWORK FOR LAUNCHING SNP REQUIRES MULTIPLE AGENCY INTERACTION AT EACH LEVEL

Steven A. Mirmina and David J. Den Herder (Senior Attorney on the International Law Practice Team of NASA's Office of the General Counsel and law clerk in the NASA Office of the General Counsel) Summer 2005

"ARTICLE: SYMPOSIUM: ISSUES IN SPACE LAW: Nuclear Power Sources and Future Space Exploration" 6 Chi. J. Int'l L. 149, lexis, loghry

B. US LEGAL AND REGULATORY ….. framework for NPS.

E. Alternative financing cuts costs and supercharges commercialization

Fitzpatrick 11

Ryan Fitzpatrick, Senior Policy Advisor for Clean Energy at Third Way, Josh Freed, Vice President for Clean Energy at Third Way, and Mieke Eoyan, Director for National Security at Third Way, June 2011, Fighting for Innovation: How DoD Can Advance CleanEnergy Technology... And Why It Has To, content.thirdway.org/publications/414/Third_Way_Idea_Brief_-_Fighting_for_Innovation.pdf

The DoD has over $400 billion …. innovation its newest priority.

F. Fission Surface Power Systems developed by NASA and DOE could make colonization of Moon and Mars possible and easier

Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board (STEERING COMMITTEE FOR NASA TECHNOLOGY ROADMAPS) 2011 “Recapturing a Future for Space Exploration: Life and Physical Sciences Research for a New Era”, 2011, accessed November 1, 2012

Nuclear reactor power systems ….has not happened yet.

G. DOE Applications of SMR Tech Will Be Utilized by the Air Force

Michael B. Donley and (Secretary of the USAF) Norton A. Schwartz (General, USAF and Chief of Staff) 1/31/2012

“Energy Horizons” United States Air Force Energy SandT Vision, online @ http://www.af.mil/shared/media/document/AFD-120209-060.pdf, loghry

Technology Watcher – A technology…in terms of biofuels production.

H. Terrestrial Reactors are a Pre-Requisite for Space Based Applications

IAEA (INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY) 2005

“THE ROLE OF NUCLEAR POWER AND NUCLEAR PROPULSION IN  THE PEACEFUL EXPLORATION  OF SPACE” online @ http://www-pub.iaea.org/MTCD/publications/PDF/Pub1197_web.pdf, loghry

There are many possible ….breeder reactor programme.

I. We can have the tech by 2020

Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board (STEERING COMMITTEE FOR NASA TECHNOLOGY ROADMAPS) 2011 “Recapturing a Future for Space Exploration: Life and Physical Sciences Research for a New Era”, 2011, accessed November 1, 2012

New advanced materials … and radiation protection systems.