Tournament: Liberty | Round: 3 | Opponent:  | Judge:
1NC Shell

Elections
Obama will win now, Ohio is key, but last minute issues can derail Obama.
AP 10/29/12, “A week before Election Day, Obama has an edge in fight for 270 electoral votes needed to win”, http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/a-week-before-election-day-obama-has-an-edge-in-fight-for-270-electoral-votes-needed-to-win/2012/10/29/c8f7f2e2-21aa-11e2-92f8-7f9c4daf276a_story.html

President Barack Obama is poised to eke out a victory in the race for the
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can happen in the coming days to influence the Nov. 6 election.
Obama distancing himself from nuclear because it only hurts him in the election – plan reverses this.
Gregg Levine 9/7 Contributing Editor and Former Managing Editor – Firedoglake and Contributing Writer for Truthout, http://capitoilette.com/2012/09/07/obama-drops-nuclear-from-energy-segment-of-convention-speech/

President Obama no longer promises to “safely harness nuclear power”–that likely would
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second shot at casting for the future, nuclear power is political deadweight.
Energy is key.
Finzel, 10/21 (Analyst-Waggener Edstrom, Election 2012: The Presidential Candidates, Energy Policy and Social Media, http://waggeneredstrom.com/blog/2012/10/21/election-2012-energy-policy/)

Although we may all be tired of the presidential campaign advertisements flooding the airwaves (
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energy policy dialogue we’ll all need to have in the months to come.
Romney destroys Russian relations.
Larison 6-27 Columnist for the American Conservative Daniel Larison “U.S.-Russian Relations Would Get Much Worse Under Romney” http://www.theamericanconservative.com/larison/u-s-russian-relations-would-get-much-worse-under-romney/

Putin doesn’t actually want a “hard-line conservative in the White House.”
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Russian relations will deteriorate much more than they have in the last year.
Nuclear war
ALLISON 11 Director @ Belfer Center for Science and Int’l Affairs @ Harvard’s Kennedy School, Former Assistant Secretary of Defense, Robert D. Blackwill, Senior Fellow – Council on Foreign Relations   Graham Allison, “10 Reasons Why Russia Still Matters”, Politico -- October 31 -- http://dyn.politico.com/printstory.cfm?uuid=161EF282-72F9-4D48-8B9C-C5B3396CA0E6

That central point is that Russia matters a great deal to a U.S
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Security Council, as well as a member of the G-8 and

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Disad turns the case:
Romney tanks warming policy—he’s anti renewable energy and is promoting status quo energy optinons-he would block nuclear energy and the transition towards renewables the plan spurs
Wood, 9/6/
 describes a more narrow federal role, one where funding goes to basic research.

And u.s.-russia Cooperation key to solve prolif-this relationship is necessary to prevent international actors from acquiring nuclear weapons materials including countries like Iran that won’t listen to the u.s.
Sestanovich et al, top Russia expert at the Council on Foreign Relations, ’6 ( 

Uniqueness
AP 10/29 – card is much better it factors in CURRENT polls in key places like Ohio where the electoral college only matters-  their card has no warrant for a. Romney getting 330 votes and b. only accoutns for economics
Obama will win now but it will be close.
MICHAEL D. SHEAR and MARK LANDLER 11/1, http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/02/us/politics/after-storm-hiatus-presidential-race-is-back-in-full-swing.html

Mr. Obama enters the last stretch with a slight and consistent — but in
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voters will help him overcome the president’s state-by-state organization.  
Obama will now and Ohio is key – 77.4% chance now.
Nate Silver 10/31, 538, http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/

Mr. Obama made gains in the FiveThirtyEight forecast on Tuesday, with his chances
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Mr. Obama, did not publish results on account of Hurricane Sandy.
It will be close but state polls show Obama electoral college victory.
Nate Silver 8/30, 538/Election Guru, http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/10/30/oct-29-polling-slows-as-storm-wreaks-havoc/#more-36901

President Obama had a mediocre day of polling in the battleground states. In particular
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. Romney’s increasing to 27.1 percent from 25.4 percent.

Err to evidence from 538 – Nate Silver is a awesome.
Leigh Bureau ‘10 the world’s preeminent lecture bureau, “Nate Silver,” http://www.leighbureau.com/speaker.asp?id=498

Nate Silver has been called a "spreadsheet psychic" and "number-crunching
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correctly predicted the presidential winner in 49 states and the District of Columbia.¶ 

A2: Incentives Now
No there’s no commercial construction in the US as per their evidence – also our Levine assumes their evidence and shows that Obama is avoiding NEW discussion about nuclear power because of its unpopularity –his campaign is anti-nuclear—and public opposes new construction
Links
Levin 9/7 – Obama campaign is avoiding the issue
SMRs massively unpopular –
Smith ’10 (Rebecca, Contributor, “Small Reactors Generate Big Hopes”, The Wall Street Journal, 2-18-10, http://www.generatorsystems.com/pdf/Small%20Reactors%20Generate%20Big%20Hopes%20WSJ%2002-18-2010.pdf, accessed 8-1-12)

"We see significant benefits from the new, modular technology," said Donald Moul
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progressively bigger, ending up at about 1,000 megawatts of capacity. 

Their SMR’s popular evidence is wrong and the link turns the case
Baker ‘12 (Matthew Baker, 6-22-12 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/b

Thirdly, some supporters of SMR technology seem to have a skewed opinion of public
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stone of the military’s energy needs the public needs to be on board.

And they’ll independently spin the plan to stoke fears – misinformation magnifies the link.
Dears 12. Donn, Energy expert retired from GE Company, President of TSAugust a 501 (C) 3 not for profit corporation “Why Environmentalists Are Wrong About Nuclear Power” June 7 -- http://epaabuse.com/7459/editorials/why-environmentalists-are-wrong-about-nuclear-power/
The lack of communications and the lack of knowledge among the people about radiation created fear – nameless and unreasonable fear.¶ The Fukushima accident has reignited fear among people about radiation. When a tuna fish off the coast of California was found to have low levels of radiation, it was headlined by the media. Those opposing nuclear power have used Fukushima to exploit people’s fear about radiation.
Anti-nuclear environmentalist groups take every advantage to protest nuke power – plan sets them off.
Gamble 11. Jack, nuclear industry engineer, “Antinuclear Activists Will Try to Equate Hiroshima with Fukushima” Nuclear Fissionary -- July 25 -- http://nuclearfissionary.com/2011/07/25/antinuclear-activists-will-try-to-equate-hiroshima-with-fukushima/?utm_source=feedburnerandutm_medium=feedandutm_campaign=Feed%3A+NuclearFissionary+%28Nuclear+Fissionary%29
But that won’t stop the antinuclear fear mongers from writing editorials and planning protests of
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for a living, I suppose there is little standing in your way.

Obama re-election requires environmentalist support- knows they will stay home if not appeased
Schow ‘12 Ashe, Heritage Action’s Deputy Communications Director, “Pres. Obama continues to pander to environmentalists” Heritage Action for America -- January 9 -- http://heritageaction.com/2012/01/pres-obama-continues-to-pander-to-environmentalists/

It seems that President Obama is worried about whether or not environmentalists will come out
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he denying them to anyone, especially his friends in the labor unions?
Environmentalist backlash turns case-will flood nuke power industry with lawsuits and raise the cost of nuclear so it can’t compete with other forms of energy
Mick ’10 (6/19/10 Jason Daily Tech, Obama Fights For Nuclear, Environmentalists Label Him a Shill http://www.dailytech.com/Obama+Fights+For+Nuclear+Environmentalists+Label+Him+a+Shill/article18781.htm

Despite these small victories, President Obama's nuclear vision faces many impending obstacles. Despite
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compete with the most expensive forms of nuclear energy, like solar power. 

A2: Link Turns

Card doesn’t talk about construction and was
Only a risk of the link – public massively opposed to nuclear expansion and there’s no constituency to lobby for the plan.
CSI 12. Civil Society Institue, “SURVEY: CONGRESS, WHITE HOUSE FOCUS ON FOSSIL FUELS, NUCLEAR POWER IS OUT OF TOUCH WITH VIEWS OF MAINSTREAM AMERICA” November 3 -- http://www.civilsocietyinstitute.org/media/110311release.cfm
If Congress thinks it has found a winning issue in trashing wind and solar power
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are actually quite striking findings in the context of the 2012 election campaign."¶
Their link turns assume squo levels of nuke power – the world of the aff is massively unpopular – how the question is asked is key – prefer our link.
Mariotte 12. Michael, Executive Director of Nuclear Information and Resource Service, “Nuclear Power and Public Opinion: What the polls say” Daily Kos -- June 5 -- http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/06/05/1097574/-Nuclear-Power-and-Public-Opinion-What-the-polls-say

Conclusion 3: On new reactors, how one asks the question matters.¶ Gallup
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33 percent supported building a nuclear power plant in their own local area.”
A2 – Sandy
Storms won’t impact the election.
Nate Silver 10/30, 538/Election Guru, http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/10/30/oct-29-polling-slows-as-storm-wreaks-havoc/#more-36901

On Monday, I mentioned the possibility that Hurricane Sandy could increase the chance of
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increase civic-mindedness and patriotism, attitudes that make voting more likely.

A2 – After Election

Should means now.
Summer, '94 (Oklahoma Supreme Court -- Justice, http://www.oscn.net/applications/oscn/DeliverDocument.asp?CiteID=20287#marker3fn14)

 The legal question to be resolved by the court is whether the word "
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. 336, 337, 27 L.Ed. 201 (1882).
The plan happens before the election---Congress is holding pro forma sessions now
Cox 9/24 Ramsey is a writer for The Hill. “Congress to hold pro forma sessions until November,” 2012, http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/senate/251313-congress-to-hold-pro-forma-sessions-until-november

Rather than being in recess for more than five weeks, both the Senate and the House decided to hold pro forma sessions until after the November elections.
Legislation can be passed then
Cover 12 Matt is a writer at CNS news. “Democrats Passed Payroll Tax Extension During ‘Pro Forma’ Session on Dec. 23,” 1/6, http://cnsnews.com/news/

(CNSNews.com) – Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev
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the unanimous consent proceeding to pass the two-month payroll tax extension.

No Internal Link
Energy key – half the voters think its an important issue which is massive enough to shift the election especially if the plan was announced the day before – swingstates like Ohio and Virginia would backlash based on coal and renewable energy promises

A2: Romney will work with Russia
No – Putin distrusts him immediately and could shut down relations independently if that’s true and ROmeny has labeled them the no 1 geopolitical foe – also their card doesn’t say Romney WILL act that way just that he should – massive distinction

Romney will react in line with campaign rhetoric and Russia will react aggressively
Adomanis 10/23/12 (Mark, international contributor @ Forbes, “How Will Mitt Romney Demonstrate 'Backbone' With Vladimir Putin?” http://www.forbes.com/sites/markadomanis/2012/10/23/how-will-mitt-romney-demonstrate-backbone-with-vladimir-putin/)

Now because the debate was poorly run there wasn’t any follow-up on Romney’s
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Distribution Network in the face of aggressive attempts to weaken and marginalize it.

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Attempts to manage the world render Earth and its inhabitants as objects, awaiting the subjective United States’ federal government’s action.  This form of dualism renders everything a self-circulating resource at humanity’s disposal, revealing one way of better relating to the world, all the while eclipsing other modes of thought.
McWhorter 92 (Ladelle, Professor of Philosophy and Women’s Studies at Richmond, Heidegger and the earth: Essays in environmental philosophy, Thomas Jefferson University Press, pp. 6)
The danger of a managerial approach to the world lies not, then, in
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which we have not yet dreamed, directions of which we may never dream

There is no end to technological thought and rationale – it will continue to find more destructive ways to control life and death.
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 threat of nuclear annihilation is, currently, the most dramatic and ironic sign
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can we look for the concepts that we need to fabricate convincing arguments?
The standing reserve and the ontological damnation that comes from it outweighs nuclear war--life has no meaning in a framework that sustains the standing reserve and denies us an authentic relationship with being.
Zimmerman 94 Michael: Professor of Philosophy at Tulane. Contesting the Earth’s Future, p.104. 

Heidegger asserted that human self-assertion, combined with the eclipse of being,
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species are somehow lessened because they were never "disclosed" by humanity.

Our alternative is to detach and release. We must learn to let things be what they are – this does not mean a retreat from technology or surrender to the inevitable, rather, it means a reorientation of how we relate to the world and the beings within it.
Sabatino 07 Charles J.: professor of philosophy at Daemen College “A Heideggerian Reflection on the Prospects of Technology” reprinted in Janus Head 10(1) www.janushead.org/10-1/sabatino.pdf p. 72-73.

The point of seeing the danger is not that we then retreat from the
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and sustains us as all belonging together within the shared gift of world?

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The Link devastates solvency because even where they win the plan is sufficient to solve the harms of the 1AC they concede to the normalizing nature of their justifications furthering the replication of their impacts—their advantages reproduce their impacts
Szabo ‘2 Matt, is a final-year PhD student in Geography at The University of Manchester. "Managerial ecology: Zygmunt Bauman and the gardening culture of modernity". Environments. 26 May, 2012. Wilfrid Laurier University, 2002. FindArticles.com.

The logic of modern ordering is, to use Weston's terminology (1996), a
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human security and a challenge to the ordering tendency of the human intellect.

L: Nuclear Energy
Nuclear Energy Development uses the instrumental enframing of the natural world and becomes determinate of nature.  Stockpiles of plutonium are symptomatic of standing reserves
Dr. William J. Kinsella 2007 (Heidegger and Being at the Hanford Reservation: Standing Reserve, Enframing, and Environmental Communication Theory; Environmental Communication Vol. 1, No. 2, November 2007, pp.194-217 Dr. William J. Kinsella is an associate professor at North Carolina State University. His work on nuclear energy communication has encompassed the areas of nuclear fusion, environmental cleanup across the US nuclear weapons complex, and commercial nuclear energy in US and global contexts.)
In his essay on ‘‘the question concerning technology,’’ Heidegger (1977a)
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implicit in the founding premises of modernism (Kinsella, 2004, 2005).

AT: Perm: do both
A2: Perm: Do Both

5. Any notion of modern enframing engaged with meditative thought would kill any potential solvency
Weinberger 92 (Jerry, Ph.D., Professor MSU, “Politics and the Problem of Technology: An Essay on Heidegger and the Tradition of Political Philosophy”, Project Muse)
Recent thinking about technology and its implications for politics has taken a postmodern turn.
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it will not be to recur to the contending elements of modern rationalism.

At: alt fails-group it
Detaching and release solves—reorients the way we look at tech-that’s in the overview

Reorienting the ontological relations between human beings and others in nature can foster changes in worldly relations, moving us away from technological exploitation 

Leslie Paul Thiele, professor of political science at the University of Florida. Timely Meditations: Martin Heidegger and Postmodern Politics. 1995 (pp. 184-185)

Relations with others and nature would develop in a less technologically exploitative and more preservative, ecological direction, Heidegger suggests, once the understanding of human being as care displaces the subjectivism that grounds out metaphysical self-understandings. In writing that "man is not the lord of beings. Man is the shepherd of Being," Heidegger gestures at the changes to our concrete, worldly relationships that might ensue from changes in our ontological relationships.

1. Releasement is not a retreat from the world; it is the only way to form a meaningful relationship in the world

Leslie Paul Thiele, professor of political science at the University of Florida. Timely Meditations: Martin Heidegger and Postmodern Politics. 1995 (p. 83)

Disclosive freedom is always the freedom resolutely to will openness to Being and releasement to
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overt and its overtness in which everything that 'is' takes up its position."
 

AT: perm: plan and non reject parts
A2: Perm – Other Instances

3. Only risk that technological rationality spills over – alt is always better.
Dreyfus, 2K3 Hubert , Prof of Philosophy at Berkeley, 2003, Foucault and Heidegger: Critical Encounters, p. 43

Foucault, in a variation on Heidegger's account of research, sees that our current
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a constant correlation between an increasing individualization and the reinforcement of this totality.

4. The alternative comes first. We have to reject the enframing that the affirmative perpetuates.  Every instance matters
Catherine Frances Botha 2003 (Department of Philosophy University of Pretoria, South Africa, “Heidegger, technology and ecology”, South African Journal of Philosophy (2003), Vol. 22 Issue 2, 165.
We can say both “yes” and “no” to technology by having
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two and a half millennia in the West has encouraged this technological servitude.

AT: ext o/w
Ontology comes first- it’s the starting point for all political considerations
Dillon, Prof of Politics- University of Lancaster, 99 Michael, Moral Spaces p. 97-98

Heirs to all this, we find ourselves in the turbulent and now globalized wake
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-innocent political slaves who claim only to be technocrats of decision making.

AT: Management k2 solve extinction (calc good)
AT: CAlc thought good

1. All of the links are disads to calc  thought-they’re a reason why calculating is bad because it leads toa  standing reserve-that’s mcwhorter

Calculative thought reduces all surroundings into a homogenous standing reserve 

Mitchell ‘5 Andrew J., is a  Post-Doctoral Fellow at Stanford University in the Humanities. "Heidegger and Terrorism," Research in Phenomenology, Volume 35, Number 1, 2005, pp. 181-218.

Opposition is no longer an operative concept for Heidegger, since technology has served to
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distribution and circulation. In short, leaders serve the standing-reserve.

AT: standing reserve k2 solve ext
Standing reserve leads to extinction-that’s in the overview-their global warming impacts are a result of human managagment of the environment and resources—our fossil fuel use is what increased co2 emissions—proves why the interventions the aff calls for are bad
A standing reserve isn’t necessary to solve extinction—we can act without devaluing life, just not in the world of the affirmative

The constant call for political action is the basis for our impending problems.  In order to reconfigure these problems and overcome technological thinking we need to not act and rethink what it means to think.  It is the only way to open up the possibilities for political responses that truly solve and for alternative types of thinking.
Zimmerman, Tulane Philosophy Professor, 96
Minding Nature, Ed. McCauley
Critics have often charged that Heidegger's otherwise charming account of the fourfold fails to confront
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only temporary, constitutes a necessary step toward the advent of an alternative disclosure

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States CP
The 50 state governments and relevant subnational governments should require that regulated utilities meet 20 percent of net electricity demand from renewable energy and small modular reactors and establish renewable energy credits that can be applied across state lines to facilitate this goal. The 50 states and relevant subnational actors should pass appropriate policies allowing utilities to pass the cost of construction of small modular reactors to customer rates.  We’ll clarify.
Solves the Aff.

Lisa Janairo Senior policy analyst at The council of State Governments, Jan 09 (“Nuclear Power May Make a Comeback, csg.org)
Nuclear energy does appear to be reliable, generally clean and safe. The affordability
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, such as California and Wisconsin, but has not yet been adopted.

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DA 2
Transition from nuclear to renewables now – industry will be dead worldwide now unless the US provides more subsidies.
Harvey Wasserman 12,Author, 'SOLARTOPIA! Our Green-Powered Earth' http://www.huffingtonpost.com/harvey-wasserman/post_3127_b_1353253.html

In the wake of Fukushima, grassroots citizen action is shutting the worldwide nuclear power
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sure these shut-downs happen before the next Fukushima irradiates us all.
Renewable energy decreases the perceived need for global nuclear power, meets Article IV requirements, and solves climate best. Promoting nuclear power only encourages other states to build dual use nuclear energy and delays an energy transition.
Amory B. Lovins 10, Founder – RMI, Holy god this card is orgasmic http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2010/01/21/a_roadmap_to_our_energy_future

Similar adherence to outmoded orthodoxies now cripples nonproliferation. Policy still rests on the fatally
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cost domestic energy strategy inform, integrate, and inspire foreign policy too?
Warming extinction – their 1ac impact

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Solvency takes decades and the reactors won’t be cost-competitive – requires re-orienting the nuclear manufacturing industry
Ryan 11
Dylan,  Masters in Mechanical Engineering, expertise in energy, sustainability, Computer Aided Engineering, renewables technology; Ph.D. in solar energy systems, 2011, "Part 10 – Small modular reactors and mass production options," http://daryanenergyblog.wordpress.com/ca/part-10-smallreactors-mass-prod/

So there are a host of practical factors in favour smaller reactors. But what’s
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be slower to build (initially anyway) and probably more expensive too.

Confining radiation won’t scale down and by the time we can build them they won’t be competitive.
Lovins 10
(Amory B. Lovins 10, Physicist, environmental scientist, writer, and Chairman/Chief Scientist of the Rocky Mountain Institute http://dodenergy.blogspot.com/2010/04/lovins-addresses-new-nuclear-power-for.html)

Question 2: Some make the case that recently popular, small, modular design
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, and the business case is unsound for any nuclear reactor.
No nuclear revival—construction problems, no work force or rapid scale up
Mycle Schneider and Antony Froggatt 9/14/2012 (Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, "2011-2012 world nuclear inustry status report" bos.sagepub.com/content/68/5/8.full.pdf+html)

The market niche that nuclear power once held is disappearing. The key nuclear indicators
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an increase in nuclear share of the world’s electricity is hard to imagine.

Reliance on foreign materials kills leadership and makes expansion impossibly expensive.
Peter D’Ambrosio and Kevin O’Brien 9 Partner, Winston and Strawn LLP Washington, D.C. Partner, Howrey LLP Washington, D.C. http://www.winston.com/siteFiles/Publications/Nuclear_Power_Projects_D'Ambrosio_Article.pdf

Obtaining the necessary material and equipment to construct the next generation of nuclear plants in
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, as delays, back-orders and bottlenecks are sure to ensue.  

Plan takes at least 10 years to solve—
King 11 (Marcus King, Project Director and Research Analyst for the Environment and Energy Team at Center for Naval Analyses, LaVar Huntzinger, Thoi Nguyen, "Feasibility of Nuclear Power on U.S. Military Installations", March, http://www.cna.org/sites/default/files/research/Nuclear%20Power%20on%20Military%20Installations%20D0023932%20A5.pdf)

The time required to obtain design certification, license, and build the next generation of nuclear plants is about 9 to 10 years. After the first plants are built it may be possible to reduce the time required for licensing and construction to approximately 6 years 45.The timeline for certification, licensing, and construction projected by DOE for a small nuclear power plant based on an SMR is shown infigure 5 46.

Gradualism Turn
NRC is conducting SMR assessments with industry participation, solves commercialization.  Letting their demanding review process finish before giving incentives is key to solvency
Heft, ‘11
Gordon, Black and Veatch, “Small Modular Reactors Make Headway In Many Countries: Design Certification Starts Soon,” Issue No. 1, http://solutions.bv.com/small-modular-reactors-make-headway-in-many-countries/

Small Modular Reactors (SMRs), those nuclear power plants that have the capability of
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doubt that SMR designs will be moving forward quickly in the upcoming years.

Domestic SMR construction is inevitable, but accelerating it during the review process leads to catastrophic accidents
Wang, 12
Ucilia, Forbes, 1-20, “Feds To Finance Small Nuclear Reactor Designs,” http://www.forbes.com/sites/uciliawang/2012/01/20/feds-to-finance-small-nuclear-reactor-designs/

The U.S. Department of Energy on Friday announced a plan to support
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that nuclear power should remain an important part of the country’s energy mix.

Extinction
Lendman, ‘11
Stephen, Research Associate -- Center for Research on Globalization, 3-13, “Nuclear Meltdown in Japan,” http://www.thepeoplesvoice.org/TPV3/Voices.php/2011/03/13/nuclear-meltdown-in-japan

For years, Helen Caldicott warned it's coming. In her 1978 book, "
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or face extinction. No one listened. The Doomsday Clock keeps ticking.

Transparent public engagement in this process is key to manage concerns and prevent visceral public backlash – turns case
Guy, 12
Megan, investment professional at Angeleno Group, a growth equity investment firm focused on next generation energy and natural resources companies, holds an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business and a Masters of Science from Stanford’s Emmett Interdisciplinary Program in Environment and Resources, Stanford Energy Journal, Spring, “NEW STRATEGIES FOR PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT,” http://energyclub.stanford.edu/index.php/Journal/Public_Engagement_by_Megan_Guy

To shift public sentiment in its favor, proponents of nuclear energy must work against
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strategies for public engagement, this renaissance may end before it truly begins.

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2NC Solvency – Timeframe
Solvency takes decades and the reactors won’t be cost-competitive – requires re-orienting the nuclear manufacturing industry—in the short term SMR’s are slower to build because currently all facilities are geared towards LWR’s—shifting to SMR’s would take decades
Ryan 11

Plan takes at least 10 years to solve—has to obtain design certification, licenses, and build the next generation of plants—will take at least 6 years and that’s only if all of that happens fast/ efficiently—even if construction only takes 2-3, the rest of the process makes it take longer
King 11 (
New safety plans and nuclear waste prevention will be required for SMRS
Wang 12, Ucilia, renewable energy and green tech journalist for Forbes, 1/20/12, "Feds To Finance Small Nuclear Reactor Designs," online: http://www.forbes.com/sites/uciliawang/2012/01/20/feds-to-finance-small-nuclear-reactor-designs/print/

The U.S. Department of Energy on Friday announced a plan to support
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that nuclear power should remain an important part of the country’s energy mix.

Safety requirements and legal restrictions force long timeframe or trigger accidents
Mycle Schneider and Antony Froggatt 9/14/2012 (Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, "2011-2012 world nuclear inustry status report" bos.sagepub.com/content/68/5/8.full.pdf+html)

Increased construction times. Since the beginning of the nuclear age, there has been
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a large range: 3.2 years to 36.3 years. 

Gradualism 2NC

Gradualism Turn
NRC is conducting SMR assessments with industry participation, solves commercialization.  Letting their demanding review process finish before giving incentives is key to solvency—in order to be mass produced SMR’s must go through the licensing process
Heft, ‘11

 accelerating domestic SMR process during the review process leads to catastrophic accidents because companies will scale up production before safe designs are fully developed
Wang, 12
That leads to Extinction—nuclear accidents lead to contamination, pollution and widescale disease spread
Lendman, ‘11

Transparent public engagement in this process is key to manage concerns and prevent visceral public backlash – turns case—without transparency the public will reject new nuclear development
Guy, 12

Rushing SMR licensing increases liability cases—turns viability and supercharges the safety link
Feinstein, ‘11
Dianne, US Senator, “AN EXAMINATION OF THE SAFETY AND ECONOMICS OF LIGHT WATER SMALL MODULAR REACTORS: HEARING before a SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS UNITED STATES SENATE ONE HUNDRED TWELFTH CONGRESS FIRST SESSION, SPECIAL HEARING, JULY 14, 2011--WASHINGTON DC,” http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/CHRG-112shrg72251/html/CHRG-112shrg72251.htm

The Fukushima crisis also demonstrated the potential danger of storing spent fuel in pools on
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they must offset the loss of economies of scale with economies of manufacturing.

2NC Solvency – Cost Competitiveness

Not cost-competitive:

Confining radiation won’t scale down and by the time we can build them they won’t be competitive-competitors don’t want to scale down and are decades away from mass production necessary—they prefer the more efficient approaches that are already available
Lovins 10
Delay gap into proven technology means no competitiveness
Amory B. Lovins 9, Physicist, environmental scientist, writer, and Chairman/Chief Scientist of the Rocky Mountain Institute http://www.rmi.org/Knowledge-Center/Library/2009-07_NuclearSameOldStory

Toshiba claims to be about to market a 200-kWe nuclear plant (50
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energy, climate, and proliferation problems, led by business for profit.

Material cost – surface area per kilowatt of capacity is smaller for SMRs
Makhijani and Boyd 2010 (IEER Institute of energy and environmental research http://ieer.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/small-modular-reactors2010.pdf) JA
SMR proponents claim that small size will enable mass manufacture in a factory, enabling
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to achieve ¶ economies of scale and make nuclear power ¶ economically competitive.
Cleanup and fuel management is more expensive
Makhijani and Boyd 2010 (IEER Institute of energy and environmental research http://ieer.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/small-modular-reactors2010.pdf) JA
Proponents claim that with longer operation on a single fuel charge and with less ¶
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kilowatt ¶ ¶ of capacity than faced by present-day aboveground reactors.¶ 

2NC- No Nuclear Revival 

No nuclear revival—that’s Schneider and Froggatt—all key indicators point to industry collapse with no chance to scale up quickly—manufacturing bottleneck, worker shortage and regulatory issues are all structural barriers to development.
Prefer it—from the World Nuclear Status report—most recent and comprehensive peer reviewed study.
That’s a framing issue—nuclear industry suffers from an optimism bias that distorts all projections
Mycle Schneider and Antony Froggatt 9/14/2012 (Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, "2011-2012 world nuclear inustry status report" bos.sagepub.com/content/68/5/8.full.pdf+html)

Unrealistic projections. In 1973 and 1974, the International Atomic Energy Agency gave a
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to start up, at least for now. Times have indeed changed.
That’s empirically true
Mycle Schneider and Antony Froggatt 9/14/2012 (Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, "2011-2012 world nuclear inustry status report" bos.sagepub.com/content/68/5/8.full.pdf+html)

The nuclear industry and its promoters have a long history of promising the impossible. Fantasy projections of installed nuclear capacity, on-time and on-budget construction, and unlimited cheap, clean, and safe electricity have been almost omnipresent throughout nuclear history. That trend continues, even as underlying facts strongly suggest an industry in decline.

Means there’s no impact uniqueness or internal link to the aff.

Even if there’s a global revival they can’t solve leadership—D’Ambrosio and O’Brien say we’re dependent on foreign materials for our tech which turns leadership. 

No Licenses 1NC
Their Domensci and Merserve evidence is from 2010—our evidence postdates, means even if financing was more key then, it doesn’t mean that’s still the biggest roadblock—licensing fees prevent solvency:
The NRC is not distributing SMR licenses – zero solvency
Tucker 11 (William, energy writer for the American Spectator, "America’s Last Nuclear Hope," March 2011, http://0101.nccdn.net/1_5/28c/010/2c9/America-s-Last-Nuclear-Hope-Tucker-TAS.pdf-http://0101.nccdn.net/1_5/28c/010/2c9/America-s-Last-Nuclear-Hope-Tucker-TAS.pdf)

So why isn't there more coordination between the civilian and military efforts? In fact
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will be a miracle if any proposal ever makes it through the process.

2NC- Labor Shortage 

Labor shortages prevent scale up—we let the industry fail for too long to mobilize the necessary force to make a timely transition—independently short circuits the aff’s major internal link. 

It’s the key factor in mobilizing nuclear energy
NEI 8/22/2012 (Nuclear energy institute, "US nuclear energy industry/US Navy agreement of understanding on workforce initiative" www.nei.org/resourcesandstats/documentlibrary/careersandeducation/report/us-nuclear-energy-industryus-navy-agreement-of-understanding-on-workforce-initiative-aug-22-2012

The nation is experiencing a nuclear energy skilled worker shortage. A significant number of the incumbent workforce is, or will soon become, eligible for retirement. Consumption of electricity continues to increase. Upgrading existing nuclear power plants and construction of new nuclear power plants is essential to the United States’ quest for clean energy independence. Workforce development is paramount to supporting the 21st century clean energy initiatives.

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Turn: Emulation—making nuclear look good incentivizes prolif—only transition away solves
Henry Sokolski 10, Executive director of the Nonproliferation Policy Education Center (http://www.npolicy.org/article_file/Nuclear_Power_Energy_Markets_and_Proliferation.pdf) 

When security and arms control analysts list what has helped keep nuclear weapons    technologies from
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be used to help steer us towards cheaper, safer forms of energy.
Technical changes don’t solve– motivation is political
Acton 9 (James M. Acton is an associate in the Nonproliferation Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and frequent contribu- tor to the prominent blog Arms Control Wonk. a member of the International Panel on Fissile Materials, The myth of proliferation-resistant technology, December)

Forty years on, Hardin’s central thesis—that it is impossible to solve a
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nuclear insecurity, a more politically savvy approach to proliferation resistance is needed.

Lack of effective inspections turns the whole case—-makes SMRs worse for prolif, safety and security than large reactors
Lyman 11 Dr. Edwin, Senior Scientist, Global Security Program, Union of Concerned Scientists, July 14, 2011, Testimony Before the Energy and Water Development Subcommittee, Committee on Appropriations, U.S. Senate, "An Examination of the Safety and Economics of Light Water Small Modular Reactors"

Proponents of small modular reactors (SMRs) claim that their designs have inherent safety
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comparable or even greater safety, security and proliferation risks than large reactors.
SMRs are worse for prolif than large reactors
Nealon 11 Corey, "Could small nukes be the energy answer?," 12-4-11, http://articles.dailypress.com/2011-12-04/news/dp-nws-nuclear-reactors-20111203_1_nuclear-power-reactors-energy-department

Also, small reactor technology is newer than conventional reactors, many of which date
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plans for small reactors."We're not pursuing them," Rick Zuercher said.

Prolif Not Cause War –
A. History supports.

Tepperman ‘9 (Jonathan Tepperman a journalist based in New York City. “Why Obama should learn to love the bomb” Newsweek Nov 9, 2009 http://jonathantepperman.com/Welcome_files/nukes_Final.pdf)
A growing and compelling body of research suggests that nuclear weapons may not, in
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Since acquiring atomic weapons, the two sides have never fought another war.
B. So does the best statistical evidence.

Asal and Beardsley ‘7 (Victor Asal Department of Political Science, State University of New York, Albany and Kyle Beardsley Department of Political Science, Emory University “Proliferation and International Crisis Behavior” Journal of Peace Research 2007; 44; 139)
As Model 1 in Table IV illustrates, all of our variables are statistically significant
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more reduction as the number of nuclear powers involved in the conflict increases. 

Prolif is inevitable
A. Conventional weapons
Gerson and Boyars ‘7 (Michael Gerson is a specialist in military strategy, nuclear deterrence, arms control, and WMD proliferation, is a member of CNA’s Center for Strategic Studies. and Jacob Boyars is an intern in CNA’s Center for Strategic Studies “The Future of U.S. Deterrence: Constructing Effective Strategies to Deter States and Non-State Actors” CENTER FOR NAVAL ANALYSES 18 September 2007 http://www.cna.org/documents/D0017171. AT.pdf)
In today’s threat environment, however, it is possible that U.S.
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nuclear weapons as the only possible deterrent against U.S. power.

B. Enrichment lasers.
Charlies D. Ferguson 11, President – Federation of American Scientists (http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2011/10/11/think_again_nuclear_power)
The bad news is that the threat of peaceful nukes begetting the destructive kind is
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of the nuclear bomb, after all, only lasted a few years.

US won’t exert prolif leadership.
Richard Cleary 8/13/12, American Enterprise Institute Research Assistant, http://npolicy.org/article.php?aid=1192andtid=30

The cases above offer a common lesson:  The U.S., though constrained
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.S. efforts at persuading countries to forgo nuclear fuel-making.
Even when we do, it fails.
Richard Cleary 8/13/12, American Enterprise Institute Research Assistant, http://npolicy.org/article.php?aid=1192andtid=30

The examples above show the limitations of both demand and supply side efforts. Supply
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, have not materialized and therefore seem to have had little tangible influence.

2NC

A2- SMRs Don’t Link
Proliferation risk with SMRs – enables countries with high prolif risk to get nuclear energy
Moor 12 (Mr. Phillip O. Moor P.E., Consultant in nuclear technology, licensing, and business structuring and former Director of Project Management at GPU Nuclear, Chair of the American Nuclear Society (ANS) President’s Special Committee on SMR Licensing Issues, “Small Modular Reactor Panel Discussion  Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee”, Summary Prepared by Derek Updegraff, Rebecca Lordan, Pierce Corden Dirksen-­‐366  May 9, 2012, http://cstsp.aaas.org/files/SummaryFinalSMR.pdf)
Moor also discussed one of the downsides of SMRs: The OandM costs
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remove spent SMR fuel for disposal or reprocessing outside the country of concern.

Technical changes don’t solve– motivation is political
Acton 9 (James M. Acton is an associate in the Nonproliferation Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and frequent contribu- tor to the prominent blog Arms Control Wonk. a member of the International Panel on Fissile Materials, The myth of proliferation-resistant technology, December)

Forty years on, Hardin’s central thesis—that it is impossible to solve a
AND
nuclear insecurity, a more politically savvy approach to proliferation resistance is needed.

Lack of effective inspections turns the whole case—-makes SMRs worse for prolif, safety and security than large reactors
Lyman 11 Dr. Edwin, Senior Scientist, Global Security Program, Union of Concerned Scientists, July 14, 2011, Testimony Before the Energy and Water Development Subcommittee, Committee on Appropriations, U.S. Senate, "An Examination of the Safety and Economics of Light Water Small Modular Reactors"

Proponents of small modular reactors (SMRs) claim that their designs have inherent safety
AND
comparable or even greater safety, security and proliferation risks than large reactors.
READ: SMRs are worse for prolif than large reactors
Nealon 11 Corey, "Could small nukes be the energy answer?," 12-4-11, http://articles.dailypress.com/2011-12-04/news/dp-nws-nuclear-reactors-20111203_1_nuclear-power-reactors-energy-department

Also, small reactor technology is newer than conventional reactors, many of which date
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plans for small reactors."We're not pursuing them," Rick Zuercher said.

Prolif Not Cause War –
Prolif is stabilizing—that’s Tepperman and Asal—empirically have a pacifying effect—makes escalation impossible by imposing internal checks. Prefer our evidence—
A. Historical—best empirics prove—no nuclear engagement or escalation by small nuclear powers—history is the key lens—only way to understand causality.
Gavin ’10 (Francis J. Gavin is Tom Slick Professor of International Affairs and Director of the Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security and Law, Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, University of Texas at Austin “Same As It Ever Was” International Security 34:3 January 7, 2010. http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/pdfplus/10.1162/isec.2010.34.3.7)
My argument is not based on Kenneth Waltz’s contention that “more may be better
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. policies to be successful, an understanding of this history is vital. 

B. Stats prove—Asal is the most recent statistical measure—proves no correlation between weapons spread and risk of escalation. 

Proliferation will be with small arsenals – solves any offense.
Seng, phd candidate in Political Science @ Chicago 97 Security Studies Summer pg. 63
Minor proliferators are likely to enjoy two main sorts of command and control advantages
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to help alleviate dangers of minor proliferators losing possession of their nuclear weapons.
the conflict increases. 

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Turn – energy production for plants net increases CO2.
Darwish Al Gobaisi et al 10, The International Center for Water and Energy Systems (ICWES)    Abu Dhabi – UAE (“The Tragedy of Energy Policy in the Arab Region” http://www.terracuranda.net/Altaka_Almia/SOLAR_POWER_VERSUS_NUCLEAR_POWER_-_OPTIONS_FOR_THE_ARAB_WORLD.pdf)

In order to avoid the most catastrophic effects of global warming, the world will
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conservation measures instead–thus also   securing energy supply ten times less expensive.
Even if nuclear power reduces emissions – thousands of new plants would be necessary.  About 20 new plants a week would be needed.

Amanda Leiter 8, Visiting Associate Professor at Georgetown University Law Center, 35 Ecology L.Q. 31
3. Scale of the Necessary Investment in Nuclear Power      One variable relevant to this
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of the anticipated growth in anthropogenic carbon emissions between 2000 and 2050. n117

Can’t solve internationally –
A. An international solution to global warming is impossible – entrenched interests in key stakeholders mean that no agreement will ever be reached

Rachman 11  (Gideon Rachman, Financial Times chief foreign affairs commentator, Zero-Sum Future, 2011, pp 203-204)

As for the Americans themselves, faced with foreign suggestions that America's love affair with
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change continues to be a major source of tension within the international system.
B. No solvency without international action.
Sensenbrenner 9 – Congressman and ranking minority member of the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming (James, 4/3, Technology Is the Answer to Climate Change, WSJ,http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123871985916184973.html#mod=loomia?loomia_si=t0:a16:g2:r3:c0.191864:b23626456, AG)
The U.S. cannot reduce the growth of greenhouse gases in the earth's
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expanding access to electricity, and reducing poverty. I don't blame them.

( ) Runaway warming inevitable -- gasses already built up and the most radical plans fail.
Zakaria, '7 (CFR and Editor -- Newsweek, Newsweek International)
The most inconvenient truth about global warming is that we cannot stop it. Please
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the industrialized world will continue to burn substantial amounts of coal and oil.
( ) CO2 can't absorb further radiation -- it can only benefit the environment.
Emsley, '94 (Chemistry Professor -- Imperial College, New Scientist, Oct 8)
Meanwhile, Jack Barrett of Imperial College, London, has also questioned the likely
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consequence, says Barrett, is flourishing vegetation rather than runaway global warming.
( ) Squo solves -- Synthetic bacteria.
Bailey, '8 (Award-winning science correspondent for Reason magazine, 2-29, http://www.reason.com/blog/show/125250.html)
In his presentation at the annual TED meeting, redoubtable gene-meister Craig Venter
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amount of CO2 they eat and octane they excrete, according to Venter.  

2NC

2NC- Can’t Solve Warming
Can’t solve warming—that’s Leiter—number of facilities needed can’t be scaled up quickly enough—would require 20 plants a week which independently generates enough construction emissions to offset gains—means they can’t solve. 

And, studies are conclusive – one reactor every two weeks at a cost of 4 billion each would be needed.
Mary Olson 6, Director of the Southeast Office, Nuclear Information and Resource Service, May 3, Confronting a False Myth of Nuclear Power: Nuclear Power Expansion is Not a Remedy for Climate Change, Commission on Sustainable Development, United Nations

Before offering some conjecture about such motives, there remain several points about why nuclear
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(Vogtle 1 and 2) cost more than $4 billion each!
Nuclear power only effects electricity – can’t solve other causes of climate change.
Ferguson and Squassoni 7, Charles D. Ferguson is a fellow for science and technology at the Council on Foreign Relations and is the author of the Council Special Report “Nuclear Energy: Balancing Benefits and Risks.”, Sharon Squassoni is a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace., 2007, “Why Nuclear Energy Isn’t the Great Green Hope”, http://a4nr.org/library/globalwarmingclimatechange/06.2007-foreignpolicy

When U.S. President George W. Bush speaks of using technology to
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power expansion do not foresee a much larger share for nuclear energy globally.  

( ) Runaway warming inevitable -- gasses already built up and the most radical plans fail.
Zakaria, '7 (CFR and Editor -- Newsweek, Newsweek International)
The most inconvenient truth about global warming is that we cannot stop it. Please
AND
the industrialized world will continue to burn substantial amounts of coal and oil.
( ) CO2 can't absorb further radiation -- it can only benefit the environment.
Emsley, '94 (Chemistry Professor -- Imperial College, New Scientist, Oct 8)
Meanwhile, Jack Barrett of Imperial College, London, has also questioned the likely
AND
consequence, says Barrett, is flourishing vegetation rather than runaway global warming. 

Aff: Tribal Wind PTC

1NC:
T- USFG
MLP CP
Immigration PTX with Aging Crisis Impact
Heidegger K
Case

Block:
T
MLP CP
Case
PTX

2NR: PTX and Case

Aff: OTEC

1NC:
Immigration PTX with Aging Crisis Impact
States CP
Natural Gas DA
Heidegger K
Case

Block:
Natural Gas DA
Case
PTX

2NR: PTX and Case