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DOD should install SMRs on military bases—catalyzes support for SMR and US leadership—ensures global spillover of SMR.
Loudermilk 11—Micah J. Loudermilk is a Research Associate for the Energy and Environmental Security Policy program with the Institute for National Strategic Studies at National Defense University, contracted through ASE Inc. “Small Nuclear Reactors and US Energy Security: Concepts, Capabilities, and Costs” 31 May 2011 Accessed date: 8-21-12 y2k
Problematically, despite the…. for nuclear energy

Governmental intervention key for military SMR use – FOAK costs need to be allayed
King, et al 2011
Marcus King • LaVar Huntzinger • Thoi Nguyen, Feasibility of Nuclear Power on U.S. Military Installations,http:~/~/www.cna.org/sites/default/files/research/Nuclear%20Power%20on%20Military%20Installations%20D0023932%20A5.pdfjap||style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit; line-height: 1.4em; color: rgb(0, 137, 220); text-decoration: initial;"
 The costs …to military installations.

Current SMR initiatives will fail – Valley of death syndrome. Only military investment solves
Andres and Breetz 2011

Richard B. andres is Professor of national Security Strategy at the national War College and a Senior fellow and energy and environmental Security and Policy Chair in the Center for Strategic research, institute for national Strategic Studies, at the national Defense University. Hanna L. Breetz is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Political Science at the Massachusetts institute of technology. Small Nuclear Reactors for Military Installations: Capabilities, Costs, and Technological Implications, Institute for National Strategic Studies, http:~/~/www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?Location=U2anddoc=GetTRDoc.pdfandAD=pdfandAD=ADA545712jap||style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit; line-height: 1.4em; color: rgb(0, 137, 220); text-decoration: initial;"
The “Valley of Death.” Given the promise leader- ship role now.

Timeframe is quick
Lamonica 2012

MARTIN LAMONICA, Technology Review Correspondent, Thursday, August 9, 2012, A Glut of Natural Gas Leaves Nuclear Power Stalled, http:~/~/www.technologyreview.com/news/428737/a-glut-of-natural-gas-leaves-nuclear-power/#com/news/428737/a-glut-of-natural-gas-leaves-nuclear-power/#commentsjap||style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit; line-height: 1.4em; color: rgb(0, 137, 220); text-decoration: initial;"
The nuclear renaissance … called shale gas."


No disads – funding happening now
Tomich, 4/25/2012
Jeffrey, St.Louis Post-Dispatch, Small nuclear reactors generate hype, questions about cost”http:~/~/www.stltoday.com/business/local/small-nuclear-reactors-generate-hype-questions-about-cost/article_39757dba-8e5c-11e1-9883-001a4bcf6878.html||style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit; line-height: 1.4em; color: rgb(0, 137, 220); text-decoration: initial;", Accessed 8/18/2012 DMW

Andrew Klein, a … operation in a decade.

Nuclear energy key to expanding national energy diversity – key to electricity stability and clean energy

Domenici and Miller 2012

Senator Pete Domenici and Dr. Warren F. “Pete” Miller, former Department of Energy (DOE) Assistant Secretary for Nuclear Energy | July 2012, Maintaining U.S. Leadership in Global Nuclear Energy Markets, Bipartisan Policy Center,http:~/~/bipartisanpolicy.org/sites/default/files/Leadership%20in%20Nuclear%20Energy%20Markets.pdfjap||style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit; line-height: 1.4em; color: rgb(0, 137, 220); text-decoration: initial;"

Strategic Goal: Ensuring … held clean-energy objectives.

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First advantage is the military

The Harms:
First, Grid Reliance
Civilian grid failures put military electricity access at risk – it provides 99 percent of their power

Andres and Breetz 2011

Richard B. andres is Professor of national Security Strategy at the national War College and a Senior fellow and energy and environmental Security and Policy Chair in the Center for Strategic research, institute for national Strategic Studies, at the national Defense University. Hanna L. Breetz is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Political Science at the Massachusetts institute of technology. Small Nuclear Reactors for Military Installations: Capabilities, Costs, and Technological Implications, Institute for National Strategic Studies, http:~/~/www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?Location=U2anddoc=GetTRDoc.pdfandAD=pdfandAD=ADA545712jap||style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit; line-height: 1.4em; color: rgb(0, 137, 220); text-decoration: initial;"
Grid Vulnerability. DOD … modern infrastructural systems.8
Second, Budget Tradeoffs
Lack of US energy security kills mission effectiveness – draws away focus from critical and strategic missions
Udall 2012
Mark Udall, Democratic Senator from Colorado, May 22, 2012, Energy Security is National Security
http:~/~/energy.nationaljournal.com/2012/05/phpjap||style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit; line-height: 1.4em; color: rgb(0, 137, 220); text-decoration: initial;"
No one needs… vulnerable to attack.

Impacts:
First, Military reliance on civilian power provides incentive for grid attack – kills military power projection AND causes nuclear war from escalatory conflicts
Andres and Breetz 2011
Richard B. andres is Professor of national Security Strategy at the national War College and a Senior fellow and energy and environmental Security and Policy Chair in the Center for Strategic research, institute for national Strategic Studies, at the national Defense University. Hanna L. Breetz is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Political Science at the Massachusetts institute of technology. Small Nuclear Reactors for Military Installations: Capabilities, Costs, and Technological Implications, Institute for National Strategic Studies, http:~/~/www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?Location=U2anddoc=GetTRDoc.pdfandAD=pdfandAD=ADA545712jap||style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit; line-height: 1.4em; color: rgb(0, 137, 220); text-decoration: initial;"
More recently, awareness … grid went offline
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Second, US Power projection and hegemony is key to prevent numerous scenarios for global nuclear war

Kagan 2007

Robert, Carnegie Senior Associate, “End of Dreams, Return of History” Policy Review,http:~/~/www.hoover.org/publications/policyreview/8552512.html#html#n10jap||style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit; line-height: 1.4em; color: rgb(0, 137, 220); text-decoration: initial;"

This is a good …provide an easier path.
SMR key to military survivability

King, Huntzinger and Nguyen 2011

Marcus King • LaVar Huntzinger • Thoi Nguyen, Feasibility of Nuclear Power on U.S. Military Installations,http:~/~/www.cna.org/sites/default/files/research/Nuclear%20Power%20on%20Military%20Installations%20D0023932%20A5.pdfjap||style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit; line-height: 1.4em; color: rgb(0, 137, 220); text-decoration: initial;"

Having a reliable …the commercial grid 4.

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SMR development key to nuclear tech leadership – puts US at front of evolving nuclear tech

Fleischmann 2011

Congressman Chuck Fleischmann is a conservative Republican who represents the 3rd District of Tennessee. Small Modular Reactors Could Help With U.S. Energy Needs,http:~/~/www.aps.org/publications/capitolhillquarterly/201110/cfmjap||style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit; line-height: 1.4em; color: rgb(0, 137, 220); text-decoration: initial;"

The timely implementation … gaining energy independence.

Nuclear energy leadership key to control of nonproliferation agreements, only players can change the game
Domenici and Miller 2012
Senator Pete Domenici and Dr. Warren F. “Pete” Miller, former Department of Energy (DOE) Assistant Secretary for Nuclear Energy | July 2012, Maintaining U.S. Leadership in Global Nuclear Energy Markets, Bipartisan Policy Center,http:~/~/bipartisanpolicy.org/sites/default/files/Leadership%20in%20Nuclear%20Energy%20Markets.pdfjap||style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit; line-height: 1.4em; color: rgb(0, 137, 220); text-decoration: initial;"
Strategic Goal: …  the United States.
the impact is nuclear war
Proliferation guarantees massive nuclear escalation and war- deterrence fails
Utgoff 2002
Victor, Institute for Defense Analyses Deputy Director, “Proliferation, Missile Defence and American Ambitions,” Survival, vol. 44, p85-102jap
Worse still, in
even whole nations

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Manufacturing decline, economy struggling
Crutsinger, 10/10/2012 Martin, Huffington Post “Finance leaders to address global economic threats”  http:~/~/www.huffingtonpost.com/huff-wires/20121010/us-global-finance/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/huff-wires/20121010/us-global-finance/||style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit; line-height: 1.4em; color: rgb(0, 137, 220); text-decoration: initial;" Accessed 10/10/2012 DMW

The U.S. economy… an economic catastrophe.
 

SMR development key to US manufacturing industry

King, Huntzinger and Nguyen 11

Marcus King • LaVar Huntzinger • Thoi Nguyen, Feasibility of Nuclear Power on U.S. Military Installations,http:~/~/www.cna.org/sites/default/files/research/Nuclear%20Power%20on%20Military%20Installations%20D0023932%20A5.pdfjap||style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit; line-height: 1.4em; color: rgb(0, 137, 220); text-decoration: initial;"

Finally, a significant …nuclear supply areas.
Harms

Collapse of manufacturing destroys the economy

Vargo 03
Franklin, National Association of Manufacturers, Federal News Service, 10-1-2003jap
I would like … a "nation of shopkeepers."

US economic collapse causes nuclear war

Friedenberg and Schoenfield 2008

Aaron friedberg and gabriel schoenfeld, professor of politics and international relations at Princeton University and visiting scholar at the Witherspoon Institute, 2008, “The Dangers of a Diminished America”, Wall Street Journal,http:~/~/online.wsj.com/article/htmljap||style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit; line-height: 1.4em; color: rgb(0, 137, 220); text-decoration: initial;"

Pressures to cut … with external adventures.

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We’re at the threshold of irreversible warming—this DECADE is critical.

Nina Chestney 12 is Reuters Staff. “Global warming close to becoming irreversible: scientists” 3-27-12 http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/03/27/us-climate-thresholds-idUSBRE82Q18720120327 accessed date: 7-18-12 y2k

Scientific estimates differ …. runs through Thursday.

Military SMRs key to reducing GHG

Robitaille 12 3/21
(George E. Robitaille- Department of Army Civilian “Small Modular Reactors: The Army’s Secure Source of Energy?” May, 21, 2012 http://www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?Location=U2anddoc=GetTRDoc.pdfandAD=ADA561802)

¶ The use of … critical military operations.

Impact, warming causes extinction

Tickell 2008
Oliver, Climate Researcher, The Gaurdian, “On a planet 4C hotter, all we can prepare for is extinction”, 8-11, http://www.guardian.co.uk/ commentisfree/2008/aug/11/ climatechangejap

We need to…  similar hothouse Earth.

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

Grid failure totally compromises the Military

Andres and Breetz 11

Richard B. andres is Professor of national Security Strategy at the national War College and a Senior fellow and energy and environmental Security and Policy Chair in the Center for Strategic research, institute for national Strategic Studies, at the national Defense University. Hanna L. Breetz is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Political Science at the Massachusetts institute of technology. Small Nuclear Reactors for Military Installations: Capabilities, Costs, and Technological Implications, Institute for National Strategic Studies, http://www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?Location=U2anddoc=GetTRDoc.pdfandAD=ADA545712jap

Grid Vulnerability. DOD is unable to provide its bases ……of modern infrastructural systems.8

Bases are Vulnerable to Grid Disruption- Only SMRs Solve

Robitaille 12 (George E. Robitaille- Department of Army Civilian "Small Modular Reactors: The Army's Secure Source of Energy" 21-03-2012 www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?AD=mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?AD=ADA561802 DATE ACCESSED: 9/26/12) TM

In recent years, the U.S Department of Defense (DoD………………or ¶ intentionally by cyber attacks.¶

Impending Hegemony decline in the Status Quo- Budget Trade-offs distract from critical missions

Udall 12

Mark Udall, Democratic Senator from Colorado, May 22, 2012, Energy Security is National Security

http://energy.nationaljournal.com/2012/05/powering-our-military-whats-th.phpjap

No one needs to tell consumers about the importance of ……………….choice – they go hand in hand.

Third, US Power projection and hegemony is key to prevent numerous scenarios for global nuclear war

Kagan 7

Robert, Carnegie Senior Associate, “End of Dreams, Return of History” Policy Review, http://www.hoover.org/publications/policyreview/8552512.html#n10jap

This is a good thing, and it should continue to …………………involvement will provide an easier path.

SMR key to military survivability

King, Huntzinger and Nguyen 11

Marcus King • LaVar Huntzinger • Thoi Nguyen, Feasibility of Nuclear Power on U.S. Military Installations, http://www.cna.org/sites/default/files/research/Nuclear%20Power%20on%20Military%20Installations%20D0023932%20A5.pdfjap

Having a reliable source of …………………power independent of the commercial grid 4.

Nuclear investment increasing internationally

Domenici and Miller 12 Senator Pete Domenici and Dr. Warren F. “Pete” Miller, former Department of Energy (DOE) Assistant Secretary for Nuclear Energy | July 2012, Maintaining U.S. Leadership in Global Nuclear Energy Markets, Bipartisan Policy Center, http:~/~/bipartisanpolicy.org/sites/default/files/Leadership%20in%20Nuclear%20Energy%20Markets.pdf%5djap

Internationally, the outlook is quite different: ………………expected to be positive overall.

Only players can change the game

Wallace and Williams 12

(Michael Wallace and Sarah Williams “Nuclear Energy in America: Preventing its Early Demise” 2012 http:~/~/csis.org/files/publication/120417_gf_wallace_pdf)

Third, in the past, the ……………….take ¶ action to prevent its early demise

US Nuclear power leadership solves proliferation and international nuclear accidents – increases reliance on US nuclear policies

Domenici and Miller 12 Senator Pete Domenici and Dr. Warren F. “Pete” Miller, former Department of Energy (DOE) Assistant Secretary for Nuclear Energy | July 2012, Maintaining U.S. Leadership in Global Nuclear Energy Markets, Bipartisan Policy Center, http:~/~/bipartisanpolicy.org/sites/default/files/Leadership%20in%20Nuclear%20Energy%20Markets.pdf%5djap

Strategic Goal: Continued strong ……………….cycle technologies are sound and we support efforts to maintain and expand these policies.

We’re on the brink of rapid prolif- plan is key

CFR 12 (Council on Foreign Relations “The Global Nuclear Nonproliferation Regime” July 5, 2012 http:~/~/www.cfr.org/proliferation/global-nuclear-nonproliferation-regime/org/proliferation/global-nuclear-nonproliferation-regime/p18984(% style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri" %) DATE ACCESSED: 9/15/12) TM

Nuclear weapons proliferation, …………….world without nuclear weapons."

Proliferation guarantees massive nuclear escalation and war- deterrence fails

Utgoff 2

Victor, Institute for Defense Analyses Deputy Director, “Proliferation, Missile Defence and American Ambitions,” Survival, vol. 44, p85-102jap

Worse still, in a highly proliferated …………………..bodies of dead cities or even whole nations

Accidents lead to Extinction

Lendman 11 Stephen, Research Associate of the Centre for Research on Globalization,“Nuclear Meltdown in Japan,”, 03/ 13, The People’s Voice http://www.thepeoplesvoice.org/TPV3/Voices.php/2011/03/13/nuclear-meltdown-in-japan, accessed 8-16-12cd

Reuters said the 1995 ……………………worse case scenario, including far outside East Asia.