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1NC—Quid Pro Quo

A. Incentives must be QPQ 

1. There must be a change in behavior 
   De LaHunt, 6 - Assistant Director for Environmental Health %26 Safety Services in Colorado College’s Facilities Services department (John, "Perverse and unintended" Journal of Chemical Health and Safety, July-August, Science direct)

Incentives work on a quid pro quo basis – this for that. If you
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run, for at least two reasons – unintended consequences and perverse incentives.
2. It’s a sequencing question—the change has to happen first 
ENGLE %26 DOWLING 05
Allen, Univ of Eastern Kentucky,  Peter, Univ of Canberra¶  http://people.eku.edu/englea/GlobalrewardsWEBLJUB.pdf-http://people.eku.edu/englea/GlobalrewardsWEBLJUB.pdf.

Incentives are defined as promises made in exchange for performance; ¶ rewarded after the performance occurs (Mahoney, 1979; 1989; Maxwell, 2000: 245-¶ 247). The sequence is as follows: promise – performance – rewards. Rewards are ¶ defined as the consequence of performance. Here the sequence is performance¶ followed by rewards.

B. Violations there are 2 
i. Gives money and does not designate what they get in return 
ii. The giving of the incentive happens BEFORE the 
C. RTP 
i. Solves effects—allows the plan in a vacuum test to determine if the incentive is direct and if there is a condition on the receipt of a reward  
Limits: Their interpretation would explode the topic because it would allow any action that
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the importance of the topic sectors.  Err on the side of caution.
D. T is a voter for education and competitive equity 
 

Observation 1 Text: 

The United States Congress should require the executive branch to condition the implementation of a twenty-percent investment tax credit for the deployment of domestic nuclear fuel recycling on all relevant parties entering into a binding process of negotiated rulemaking for no more than a year.

Observation 2: Solvency and Net Benefit:
Lack of Certainty of the plan ensures a "space" of flexibility which ensures polices that create incentives are key to innovation and alternative energy
John A. Alic, Consultant, David C. Mowery, Prof @ Berkely and Edward S. Rubin, Prof@ CMU
 "U.S. technology and innovation policies: Lessons for Climate Change", November 2003, http://www.pewclimate.org/docUploads/US%20Technology%20%26%20Innovation%20Policies%20(pdf).pdf-http://www.pewclimate.org/docUploads/US Technology %26 Innovation Policies (pdf).pdf, BB
Technology policies alone cannot adequately respond to global climate change. They must be complemented
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impacts of climate change itself, but also in the outcomes of innovation.

Counterplan solves the affirmative, current attempts to increase energy production are doomed to failure because they don’t take into account industry and labor opposition—wich will spin the aff as an environmental policy and gut it
Teague and Navin in 7
Peter Teague and Jeff Navin, Director of the Environment Program at the Nathan Cummings Foundation and former environmental advisor to Senator Barbara Boxer, Managing Director of American Environics Strategies and former Research Director for Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle, June 26, 2007, "Global Warming in an Age of Energy Anxiety", The American Prospect, http://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?article=global_warming_in_an_age_of_energy_anxiety, BB
With a regulatory-only approach, we will end with a debate between environmentalists
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. Voters are still waiting for action on health care and global warming. 

Avoids political backlash
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Philip, A.B. Kenyon College (1964); M.A. (Mathematics) Michigan (1966); J.D. Michigan (1969), 71 Geo. L.J. 1
The report of the consensus also should be furnished to Congress and to the White
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might appear that the agency is changing the results of the negotiations capriciously.
 

Politics

Obama will win – majority of polling techniques – but it’s close

American Political Science Association-http://www.sacbee.com/search_results/?sf_pubsys_story_byline=American%20Political%20Science%20Association%26link_location=top 9/19/12 ~8 Of 13 Election Forecasts Predict Obama Wins 2012 Popular Vote;

WASHINGTON, Sept. 19, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Several forecast
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understanding national electoral processes and the dynamics at work in US presidential elections.

Most want to shift away from nuclear power – especially independents

Epstein 12 (Bob, 4/30, entrepreneur and PhD in engineering, Energy Policy and The Presidential Elections - and What It Might Mean For The Next Congress, http://www.nrdcactionfund.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Energy-Policy-and-The-Presidential-Elections.pdf)
According to the Civil Society Institute¶ , more than three out of four Americans
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come from a national survey¶ conducted on ¶ March 22-25.

Independent voters are empirically the key internal link

Killian 12 (Linda, a Washington journalist and a senior scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, 2/2, 4 Types of Independent Voters Who Could Swing the 2012 Elections, http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/02/4-types-of-independent-voters-who-could-swing-the-2012-elections/252363/) 

Even as independent candidates continue to struggle, across the country the ranks of independent
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to them and the parties that control both candidate selection and the agenda.

Obama win key to US-Russia relations – Romney’s agenda is belligerent and controversial.

Reichardt 7/9. (Adam is the Managing Editor of New Eastern Europe, "Considering Russia in the Voting Booth," New Eastern Europe, 2012, http://www.neweasterneurope.eu/node/382)
Obama’s policy towards Russia is easier to gauge, since there has already been four
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, and perhaps even hostile, to the intentions of American foreign policy.

U.S.-Russian war causes extinction – most probable

Bostrom ’2 ~Nick Bostrom, professor of philosophy - Oxford University, March, 2002, Existential Risks: Analyzing Human Extinction Scenarios and Related Hazards, Journal of Evolution and Technology, p. http://www.nickbostrom.com/existential/risks.html~~
A much greater existential risk emerged with the build-up of nuclear arsenals in
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preludes to the existential risks that we will encounter in the 21st century.

1NC-Solvency

Cooling system will fail

BAS, 1 
Arjun Makhijani June 2001 (response to "The integral fast reactor could do it" by Stanford, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, May/June, npc.sarov.ru/english/digest/32001/appendix8.html AC)

Despite five decades of development and more than %2420 billion spent worldwide, sodium
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Nuclear Regulatory Commission safety review and licensing before one could proceed with confidence."¶ 

Core would explode and spew radiation all over the globe

Smith, 6 
Aileen Mioko Smith Spring 2006-( Life on earth is imperiled by human degradation of the biosphere. Earth Island Institute develops and supports projects that counteract threats to the biological and cultural diversity that sustain the environment. Through education and activism, these projects promote the conservation, preservation, and restoration of the Earth.)- "Nuculear Mayhem at Monju" Earth Island Journal Vol, 11 No. 2
http://www.earthisland.org/eijournal/new_articles.cfm?articleID=395%26journalID=59-nm
A sodium leak and fire on the night of December 8, 1995, at
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that Monju will erupt, spewing tons of deadly plutonium into the environment. 

Nuclear reactor explosion causes extinction

Hyder 98 – Ph.D. in astrogeophysics
Hyder 98 (Human Extinction on this Chernobyl-Contaminated  Planet by  Charles L. Hyder http://members.fortunecity.com/osservatorio/charleshyderbook2.html Dr. Charles L. Hyder, author of Human Survival on a Plutonium-Contaminated Planet, Charles Hyder received B.S. and M.S. degrees in physics from the University of New Mexico (1958,1960), and a Ph.D. in Astrogeo- physics from the University of Colorado (1964). He published more than twenty solar and comet papers. He worked for NASA, 

 Mammals and some of the most sensitive flowering plants (lily), insects,
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2015 AD would remove all doubt about Human Extinction on a global scale.

Nuclear power is decisively on the decline—Fukushima, economics, and delays

Brown 12 (Lester, president of Earth Policy Institute, 5/22/12, "Fukushima Meltdown Hastens Decline of Nuclear Power" Earth Policy Institute) http://www.treehugger.com/energy-disasters/fukushima-meltdown-hastens-decline-nuclear-power.html

On May 5, 2012, Japan shut down its Tomari 3 nuclear reactor on
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Russia, and Japan—could meet their electricity needs with wind alone. 

Shortage of nuclear engineers prevents expansion

Reuters 10 (12/19/10, "Nuclear industry in midst of skills crisis" Pittsburgh Tribune Review, Lexis) 

There’s a hole in the nuclear workforce, not just in Finland but across the
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The industry needs to ramp up and it needs to do it quickly." 

Bottlenecks prevent industry expansion

Johnson 11 (Toni, reporter for the Congressional Quarterly, 3/18/11, "Nuclear Power Expansion Challenges" Council on Foreign Relations) http://www.cfr.org/united-states/nuclear-power-expansion-challenges/p16886~~%23p2

Construction Bottlenecks. Another obstacle for getting new nuclear construction under way is the capacity
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pebble-bed modular reactors, which do not require a pressure vessel. 

Expansion is slow—reactors take 10 years to build

Madsen et al 09 (Travis Madsen and Tony Dutzik, analysts for Frontier Group, Bernadette Del Chiaro and Rob Sargent Environment America Research %26 Policy Center, November 2009, "GENERATING FAILURE How Building Nuclear Power Plants Would Set America Back in the Race Against Global Warming" Frontier Group, Environment America) http://www.frontiergroup.org/sites/default/files/reports/Generating-Failure—-Environment-America—-Web.pdf

At Best, No New Reactors Could Be Completed Until 2016 No new reactors are
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2018. 79 However, this schedule could very well be too optimistic. 

New court decision makes licensing impossible

Bell 12 (Larry, endowed professor at the University of Houston, founder and director of the Sasakawa International Center for Space Architecture, 6/17/12, "Radioactive Power Politics: New Court Decision Lays Waste To U.S. Nuclear Power Development" Forbes) http://www.forbes.com/sites/larrybell/2012/06/17/radioactive-power-politics-new-court-decision-lays-waste-to-u-s-nuclear-power-development/2/

On June 8, the U.S. Court of Appeals, D.
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, the NRC is waging a devastating nuclear war against atomic power expansion. 

DA: Terrorism

Nuclear power plants are targets for terrorists

Caldicott 06 (Helen Caldicott, Founder and President of the Nuclear Policy Research Institute 2006 "Nuclear Power is not the Answer" Print)

In this day and age, nuclear power plants are also obvious targets for terrorists
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virtually the same lax levels as prior to the 9/11 attacks.

NRC standards don’t even have safeguards against airplanes for new designs

NYT 7 (New York Times, "U.S. Takes Step to Address Airliner Attacks on Reactors," April 25, L/n, rday)

New nuclear reactors need not be designed to withstand suicide attacks by big airplanes,
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Electric and one by Westinghouse, for which no such analysis was required. 

Extinction

Wasserman 02 (Harvey, senior advisor to the Nuclear Information %26 Resource Service "Nuclear Power and Terrorism," Earth island Journal Spring 2002 Vol. 17, No.1)

The intense radioactive heat within today’s operating reactors is the hottest anywhere on the planet
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core of our life and of all future generations must be shut down. 

DA: Prolif

Nuclear power expansion causes nuclear war

Diesendorf 11 (Mark, Australian academic and environmentalist, teaches Environmental Studies at the University of South Wales, "Demystification of Nuclear Energy" D%21ssent No.36, Spring 2011, 13-18) http://www.ies.unsw.edu.au/docs/DemystificationNuclearEnergyMD.pdf

Nuclear power station disasters can be caused by natural phenomena, such as earthquakes and
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countries that have nuclear power, the greater the probability of nuclear war. 

DA: Accidents

Accidents are inevitable with nuclear power

Ramana 11 (MV, with the Program on Science and Global Security at Princeton University and is on the Coordinating Committee of the Coalition for Nuclear Disarmament and Peace, "No escape from accidents") http://www.nirs.org/international/reachingcriticalwillreport.pdf 

In the aftermath of Fukushima and, twenty five years earlier, Chernobyl, it
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is a limit to how far they can be reduced through engineering efforts. 

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-http://www.thepeoplesvoice.org/TPV3/Voices.php/2011/03/13/nuclear-meltdown-in-japan, accessed 8-2-12, RSR)

Reuters said the 1995 Kobe quake caused %24100 billion in damage, up to
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entire region. "It could be, literally, an apocalyptic event.