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Plan: The United States Federal Government should mandate and fund the development and deployment of Small Modular Reactor (SMR) nuclear technology for the United States military.

ADV 1: Military
Military actions to reduce and change energy inputs fail – critical security obstacles prevent solutions
Andres and Breetz 2011
The DOD interest in small reactors derives
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Each of these is explored below.

Civilian grid failures put the military at risk
Andres and Breetz
DOD is unable to provide its bases with electricity
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interdependence of modern infrastructural systems

Energy tech is key to military efficiency. Only SMRs can provide enough power for the military to sustain itself
Andres and Breetz
Operational energy use represents a second serious vulnerability
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to save hundreds or thousands of U.S. lives.

SMR’s are key to mission effectiveness and domestic nuclear energy
Andres and Breetz
The mission of DoD is to provide
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capability of the United States to add new nuclear capacity.

DoD is key to Clean energy success
Andres and Breetz
No entity in government knows better
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poised to lead the world's clean energy economy

Military clean energy is key to national security
Lehner 12
The Department of Defense is embracing clean
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benefits across the civilian population.

Clean energy is key to the military power
Rogers 12
The U.S. military is overwhelmingly dependent
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Both are good for the military and the nation

military readiness key to prevent extinction
feldstein 2007
Deterring other great powers, such as
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perhaps the reality—of the U.S. military structure.

grid reliance provides incentive for attack- kills hege and escalates to nuke war
andres and breetz
More recently, awareness has been growing
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a few days after the civilian grid went offline.

Hege prevents regional conflict, and multiple nuclear war scenarios
Kagan 2007

Adv 2: Nonprolif
Nuclear power investment is being avoided – SMR investment leads to major increases in energy production and is key to nuclear energy leadership
Goure 2010
Yet, with all this attention and money going
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at home and U.S. nuclear reactor sales abroad

Nuclear investment increasing internationally
Domenici and Miller 2012
Internationally, the outlook is quite different
AND
nuclear energy is still expected to be positive overall.

New nuclear initiatives are the litmus test for nuclear leadership – sets the US as the international nuclear power
Domenici and Miller 2012
Historically, the United States has been a leader in nuclear technology
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area for federal energy research and development investment.

US controlled SMRs key to nonproliferation
COMMITTEE ON ENERGY AND NATURAL RESOURCES 2011
Third, there is a national security aspect to the development
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share our approach toward safety and nonproliferation

Prolif leads to nuclear escalation
Utgoff 2002
Worse still, in a highly proliferated world there would be
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to bury the bodies of dead cities or even whole nations

Deterrence failure is likely. Incomplete intelligence and irrationality in a regional crisis
Cimbala, 2007
There is no “magic number” of nuclear-armed states
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on the basis of faulty indica- tions and warning.
 

Solvency:
Military pre-commercial move key to SMR tech – 3 reasons
Andres and Breetz 2011
Thus far, this paper has reviewed two of DOD’s
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these technologies for U.S. military applications.

SMRs key to a new generation of energy
Rosner and Goldberg 2011
As stated earlier, SMRs have the potential
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Korea, Russia, and, now rapidly emerging, China. 

DOD should install SMRs on military bases—catalyzes support for SMR and US leadership
Loudermilk 2011
Problematically, despite the immense energy security benefits
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and will work to solidify long-term support for nuclear energy

Governmental intervention key for military SMR use
King, Huntzinger and Nguyen 2011
The costs associated with moving from
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a feasible option for providing elec- tricity to military installations.