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Military Advantage
Observation Two: Harms
Advantage One: Military
Military actions to reduce and change energy inputs fail – critical security obstacles prevent solutions
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=ADA545712]jap
The DOD interest in small reactors derives largely from problems with base and logistics vulnerability
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through hostile territory to forward locations. Each of these is explored below.
We will isolate two internal links: First is Grid Vulnerability
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=ADA545712]jap
Grid Vulnerability. DOD is unable to provide its bases with electricity when the civilian
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and so forth, and demonstrated the interdependence of modern infrastructural systems.8
Independently, military reliance on the civilian power provides an 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=ADA545712]jap
More recently, awareness has been growing that the grid is also vulnerable to purposive
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function for more than a few days after the civilian grid went offline.
SMRs can supply power to military bases during times of crisis – deters grid attacks
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=ADA545712]jap
Unlike other alternative sources of energy, small re- actors have the potential to
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also to provide critical services in surrounding towns during long-term outages.
Strategically, islanding bases with small reactors has another benefit. One of the main
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in order to win an ongoing battle or war would be greatly reduced.
SMR’s key to maintain security of power grid – solves military vulnerabilities
Baker, 6/22/2012
[Matthew, American Security Project, Do Small Modular Reactors Present a Serious Option for the Military’s Energy Needs?” http://americansecurityproject.org/blog/2012/do-small-modular-reactors-present-a-serious-option-for-the-militarys-energy-needs/ [Accessed 8/19/2012 DMW]
SMRs are able to be constructed in factories, with manufacturing capabilities already available in
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to Congressman Bartlett, SMRs could make such bases energy self-sufficient.
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.pdf]jap
Having a reliable source of electricity is critically important for many DoD installations. Fort
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could provide years of electrical power independent of the commercial grid [4].
AND, the military is dependent upon energy technology. Efficiency measures and other alternative energies fail – only SMRs can provide enough power for the military to sustain itself and save troop lives
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=ADA545712]jap
Operational Vulnerability. Operational energy use represents a second serious vulnerability for the U.
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the potential to save hundreds or thousands of U.S. lives.
Second Internal Link: Budget Tradeoffs
US military energy security key to mission effectiveness – allows focus on 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/powering-our-military-whats-th.php]jap
No one needs to tell consumers about the importance of energy security. They see
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and national security is a false choice – they go hand in hand.
Military readiness key to prevent extinction
[Martin, “The underfunded Pentagon,” Foreign Affairs, March/April]jap
Feldstein 7
Deterring other great powers, such as Russia and China, will require Washington
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modern technology and the potential emergence of a black market in fissile material.
Furthermore, there seems to be general agreement that the United States has committed so
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—and perhaps the reality—of the U.S. military structure
Heg prevents great power conflict, terrorism, and nuclear war – no alternatives – intervention is inevitable, only a question of effectiveness
Kagan 11
[contributing editor to The Weekly Standard and a senior fellow in foreign policy at the Brookings Institution, Robert, “The Price of Power”, 1-24, Vol. 16, No. 18, http://www.weeklystandard.com/print/articles/price-power_533696.html]
Today the international situation is also one of high risk. • The terrorists who
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in the kind of international system that American power has built and defended.
Multipolarity inevitable , but US power soothes the transition that would otherwise cause extinction and is empirically correlated to perpetual great power peace
Barnett 11
[Thomas P.M. Barnett 11 Former Senior Strategic Researcher and Professor in the Warfare Analysis and Research Department, Center for Naval Warfare Studies, U.S. Naval War College American military geostrategist and Chief Analyst at Wikistrat., worked as the Assistant for Strategic Futures in the Office of Force Transformation in the Department of Defense, “The New Rules: Leadership Fatigue Puts U.S., and Globalization, at Crossroads,” March 7 http://www.worldpoliticsreview.com/articles/8099/the-new-rules-leadership-fatigue-puts-u-s-and-globalization-at-crossroads ]
It is worth first examining the larger picture: We live in a time of
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the 20th century, setting the stage for the Pacific Century now unfolding.
Nuclear Leadership Advantage
Advantage Two: Nuclear Leadership
Nuclear investment increasing internationally
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.pdf]jap
Internationally, the outlook is quite different: a number of countries intend to grow
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, global growth in nuclear energy is still expected to be positive overall.
We’ll isolate two internal links: First Is Negotiation Power
Nuclear energy leadership key to control of nonproliferation, only players can change the game
Wallace and Williams 2012
(Michael Wallace and Sarah Williams “Nuclear Energy in America: Preventing its Early Demise” 2012 http://csis.org/files/publication/120417_gf_wallace_williams.pdf)
Third, in the past, the U.S. government could exert influence
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.S. nuclear industry and 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 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.pdf]jap
Strategic Goal: Continued strong U.S. leadership in global nuclear security matters
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technologies are sound and we support efforts to maintain and expand these policies.
Second internal link: First Mover
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/backpage.cfm]jap
The timely implementation of small reactors could position the United States on the cutting edge
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taking the first steps in making significant headway to truly gaining energy independence.
US controlled SMR key to nonproliferation – proliferating countries will fill in the energy gap- causing cascading prolif
COMMITTEE ON ENERGY AND NATURAL RESOURCES 2011
(Senate Hearing 112-107- COMMITTEE ON ENERGY AND NATURAL RESOURCES¶ “SMALL NUCLEAR REACTORS AND ¶ ALTERNATIVE FUELS¶ ” JUNE 7, 2011 http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/CHRG-112shrg68432/html/CHRG-112shrg68432.htm)
Third, there is a national security aspect to the development of ¶ U.
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suppliers that may not always share our ¶ approach toward safety and nonproliferation.
Prolif dramatically increases the risk of nuclear war -- causes nuclear winter.
Robock 10
(Alan, Professor of Environmental Sciences at Rutgers University, editor of Reviews of Geophysics, PhD from MIT in meteorology and fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, “Nuclear Winter”, May, Wiley Periodicals)
Nuclear winter is the term for a theory describing the climatic effects of nuclear war
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climatic effects of nuclear war is to rid the world of nuclear weapons.
We are at the nuclear tipping point – consensus of experts
Potter and Mukhatzhanova 8
(William C. Potter is Sam Nunn and Richard Lugar Professor of Nonproliferation Studies and Director of the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies at the Monterey Institute of International Studies. Gaukhar Mukhatzhanova is Research Associate at the James Martin Center. “Nuclear Phobia”, International Herald Tribune, September 23, Infotrac)
Judging by the comments of most political figures, scholars and media pundits, regardless
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states in the region and possibly elsewhere to follow suit in quick succession.
Plan
The United States Federal Government should fund the development of Small Modular Reactor (SMR) nuclear technology for the United States military
Solvency Observation One - Solvency
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 immense energy security benefits that would accompany the wide-
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nuclear industry and will work to solidify long-term support for nuclear energy
Governmental intervention key for military SMR use – FOAK costs need to be allayed
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.pdf]jap
The costs associated with moving from the current stage of develop- ment of small
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elec- tricity to military installations.
The military has the experience to be an SMR first mover
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.pdf]jap
DoD’s operational experience with nuclear power allows for a better understanding of current options.
The U.S. Navy launched the USS Nautilus, the world’s first nuclear
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around the same time that national interest in nuclear power began to wane.
Military pre-commercial move key to SMR tech – 3 reasons
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=ADA545712]jap
Thus far, this paper has reviewed two of DOD’s most pressing energy vulnerabilities—
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availability and appropriateness of these technologies for U.S. military applications.
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=ADA545712]jap
The “Valley of Death.” Given the promise that small reactors hold for military
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the future, then it should pursue a leader- ship role now.
