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China, India and Russia Building New Plants now as US nuclear share shrinking, industry on the brink, Fed action key
Wallace and Williams 4/17(Michael, Michael Wallace comes to CSIS from Constellation Energy, where he served as vice chairman and COO. During his nine years at Constellation Energy, he led many company business activities, including the formation and operation of two joint ventures with EDF related to nuclear energy. Prior to joining Constellation Energy, he was cofounder and managing director of Barrington Energy Partners, LLC, a strategic consulting firm specializing in energy industry transactions and advisory services. Before joining Barrington Energy, he had more than 25 years of senior executive and utility operations experience. He holds a B.S. in electrical engineering from Marquette University and an M.B.A. from the University of Chicago, with a specialization in finance. He also served as a naval officer in the U.S. Navy nuclear submarine force. Mr. Wallace is a member of the National Infrastructure Advisory Council (NIAC), which advises the president on matters related to homeland security. He is also a member of the Nuclear Sector Coordinating Council under the Department of Homeland Security’s National Infrastructure Protection Plan and a member of Business Executives for National Security (BENS), the Naval Historical Foundation Advisory Council, and the Marquette University College of Engineering National Advisory Council; Sarah, April 17, 2012; http://csis.org/publication/nuclear-energy-america-preventing-its-early-demise)
Meanwhile, China, India, … prevent its early demise.

China Challenging US in Nuclear Power Leadership, Absent the Plan they’ll pass us
Cullinane, 11
(Scott, House Armed Services Committee Staff, “America Falling Behind: The Strategic Dimensions of Chinese Commercial Nuclear Energy “, September 28, http://www.ensec.org/index.php?view=articleandcatid=118%3Acontentandid=319%3Aamerica-falling-behind-the-strategic-dimensions-of-chinese-commercial-nuclear-energyandtmpl=componentandprint=1andpage=andoption=com_contentandItemid=376) NL
Due to a … example of this.

China Has a Record of Proliferation, absent the plan they’ll give nukes to the Middle East, South Asia and Iran to achieve objectives
Cullinane, 11
(Scott, House Armed Services Committee Staff, “America Falling Behind: The Strategic Dimensions of Chinese Commercial Nuclear Energy “, September 28, http://www.ensec.org/index.php?view=articleandcatid=118%3Acontentandid=319%3Aamerica-falling-behind-the-strategic-dimensions-of-chinese-commercial-nuclear-energyandtmpl=componentandprint=1andpage=andoption=com_contentandItemid=376) NL
The international trade … involving nuclear material. 

Unchecked Asian or Middle Eastern Prolif is the most likely scenario for a nuclear war – ongoing disputes, shorter flight times and pressure to retaliate
Cimbala, 08
(Stephen J.-, March, Comparative Strategy, “Anticipatory Attacks: Nuclear Crisis Stability in Future Asia”, Vol. 27 #2, Informaworld)
The spread of … outside of Europe.

Indo-Pak War causes extinction
ThaiIndian News, 08
ThaiIndian News 8 (ThaiIndian News, “India-Pakistan nuclear war would spell global calamity: study,” http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/uncategorized/india-pakistan-nuclear-war-would-spell-global-calamity-study_10035636.html)
A brief nuclear … the food chain.

Middle Eastern Nuclear War means Extinction
Russel 09
(James Senior Lecturer in the Department of National Security Affairs at Nava Postgraduate School “Strategic Stability Reconsidered: Prosepects for Nuclear War and Escalation in the Middle East www.ifri.org/downloads/PP26_Russell_2009.pdf)
These systemic weaknesses … the entire world.  

Plan key to US technological leadership
Cullinane, 11
(Scott, House Armed Services Committee Staff, “America Falling Behind: The Strategic Dimensions of Chinese Commercial Nuclear Energy “, September 28, http://www.ensec.org/index.php?view=articleandcatid=118%3Acontentandid=319%3Aamerica-falling-behind-the-strategic-dimensions-of-chinese-commercial-nuclear-energyandtmpl=componentandprint=1andpage=andoption=com_contentandItemid=376)
Strategy and policy … Department of Energy. 

Plan is Uniquely Key, Cannot Maintain Tech Leadership without new construction
BPC 12
(Co-chaired by Senator Pete Domenici and Dr. Warren “Pete Miller” September 2012, “Maintaining U.S. Leadership in Global Nuclear Energy Markets”; http://bipartisanpolicy.org/sites/default/files/Leadership%20in%20Nuclear%20Energy%20Markets.pdf)
With the world’s ….  nuclear weapons proliferation.

Empirically proven - failure to maintain innovation leads to hegemonic decline and conflict
Drezner 2001 Daniel Drezner (professor of international politics at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University) 2001 “State structure, technological leadership and the maintenance of hegemony” http://www.danieldrezner.com/research/tech.pdf
In this decade ….  lead over time.

Timeframe is quick – other countries are rapidly catching up – once we lose it we cant get it back
Warsh 2007 David Warsh (Proprieter of Economic Principles and former J.P. Morgan Prize Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin) 2007 “The World Is What?” http://www.rand.org/pubs/conf_proceedings/2007/RAND_CF235.pdf
Today it is …. difficult to regain.” 

Current US tech decline will cause heg collapse- history show US will have to attack to try retaining power
Pape 09
(Robert A. Pape; Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago,  January/February 2009 “The Empire Falls”, The National Interest, June 28, http://www.nationalinterest.org/Article.aspx?id=20484)
America is …. a hegemonic war.”

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The economy is weak—slowest recovery from any recession in history—we must act now or it will collapse
Glassman, 7/31
(James K, founding executive director of the George W. Bush Institute, host and moderater of “Ideas in Action,” a weekly television series on public policy issues, ex-president of the Atlantic Monthly magazine, publisher of the New Republic magazine, executive vice president of U.S. News and World Report, and editor and co-owner of Roll Call, the Congressional newspaper, graduated from Harvard (where I was managing editor of The Crimson), Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs under President George W. Bush, and before that, as chairman of the Broadcasting Board of Governors, written three books on investing, and my articles on finance, economics, and foreign policy have appeared in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, Kiplinger’s Personal Finance, Forbes, among others and currently sits on the Investor Advisory Committee of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, "Let's Be Clear, The U.S. Economy Is Just Awful", 7/31, http://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesglassman/2012/07/31/lets-be-clear-the-u-s-economy-is-just-awful/) NL
This is the … a practical goal.

New Nuclear Power Plants Create up to 500,000 jobs; are bright spot in the economy
Weaver 9
 (Lynn Edward, Lynn Edward Weaver is President Emeritus of Florida Institute of Technology, http://www.theledger.com/article/20090128/COLUMNISTS/901280304?p=2andtc=pg)
Is there any …. our energy needs.

Job growth
AP 11
(AP, 9-2, 11, http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Employers-add-no-net-jobs-in-apf-4252098583.html?x=0andsec=topStoriesandpos=mainandasset=andccode= DOA: 9/2/11)
Analysts say the  …has to give."

Low, stable prices
EEI, 08
(Edison Electric Institute, “Electricity and the U.S. Economy”; http://www.getenergyactive.org/value/economy.htm)
The U.S. economy … price of electricity.

Innovation
Traven, 06
Michael, J.D., Capital University Law School, RESTRICTING INNOVATION: HOW RESTRICTIVEU.S. VISA POLICIES HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO DEPLETE OUR INNOVATIVE ECONOMY, Capital University Law Review 34 Cap. U.L. Rev. 693, summer, lexis Introduction B. Impact of Intellectual Capital and the Creative Class to the U.S. Economy 1.The Emergence of the Creative Class
The global community …. the foreseeable future.

Economic decline causes war – multiple warrants and the best research flows aff
Royal, Director of Cooperative Threat Reduction at the U.S. Department of Defense, 2010
(Jedediah, “Economic Integration, Economic Signaling and the Problem of Economic Crises,” in Economics of War and Peace: Economic, Legal, and Political Perspectives, ed. Goldsmith and Brauer, p.213-215) JDB
Less intuitive is … to those views.

Plan provides cost stability and predictable energy prices
Whitman, 07
(Christine Todd, former governor of New Jersey, was administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency from 2001 to 2003, “The Case in Favor of Nuclear Power”, 9/12, http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20730356) NL

The cost of …. at gas-fired plants).
That Avoids Volatility which kills economy, planning and national security
Wald et al 09
(CNA Military Advisory Board, USAF General, 2009; General Charles F., "POWERING AMERICA’S DEFENSE: ENERGY AND THE RISKS TO NATIONAL SECURITY", pg. 11-12., Center for Naval Analyses, May, http://www.cna.org/sites/default/files/Powering%20Americas%20Defense.pdf, accessed 9/27/12, DJS)
The volatile fossil … upgrade major infrastructure.

Price Volatility Kills Military Readiness, forced to move funds away from equipment and training
EON 7/10
(Enhanced Online News, July 10, 2012, “BIO responds to petroleum refiners’ criticism of navy demonstration of advanced biofuels”; Business Wire; http://eon.businesswire.com/news/eon/20120710006689/en/Navy/biofuel/advanced-biofuel; accessed 9/27/12, DJS)
“The U.S. military … equipment and training to pay for higher fuel costs.

Diverting funds from military in a world of new threats leads to Extinction
Feldstein 07
(Martin Feldstein, March/April 2007. Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers under President Reagan, is a professor at Harvard and a member of The Wall Street Journal's board of contributors; The Underfunded Pentagon, Foreign Affairs Volume 86, Number 2; http://www.nber.org/feldstein/the-underfunded-pentagon.pdf)
Deterring other great … the U.S. military structure.

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Plan: The United States Federal Government should substantially increase the available funding for the nuclear loan guarantee program.

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Nuclear energy is cheap, safe, reliable, and has very little environmental impact
Learsy, 05
(Learsy, commodities trader and member of the Wilson Council at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, 2005 Raymond J., “Over a Barrel: Breaking the Middle East Oil Cartel” pg. 229-230)
Technology is rapidly … nuclear power generation.

Loan guarantees spur the development of nuclear power—they lower interest rates and startup costs
Byron et al, 07
(Barbara Bryon, senior nuclear policy advisor at the Energy Commission, Lorraine White, program manager, and B. B. Blevins, Executive Director, “Nuclear Power in California: 2007 Status Report”, October, pdf) NL

Loan Guarantee Program … to yellow to red”
Loan guarantees solve the initial startup cost of developing nuclear plants
Adams, 08
(Theodore G Adams, Physicist at TG Adams and Associates, “Federal Loan Guarantees Key to Nuclear Plant Production”, June 9, http://www.redorbit.com/news/business/1424623/federal_loan_guarantees_key_to_nuclear_plant_construction/) NL
With America’s greenhouse-gas … environmental well-being.

The only problem now with the program is the lack of money—the plan ensures that loan guarantees are sufficient
Ben-Moshe et al, 09
(Sony Ben-Moshe, Finance Department of the San Diego office of Latham and Watkins, an alternative energy consultant firm, Jason J Crowell, research associate, Kelley Michael Gale, Finance Department Chair of Latham and Watkins‘ San Diego office and serves as global Co-Chair for the firm‘s Climate Change and Cleantech Practice Groups, Breton A. Peace, PHd from the University of Michigan, Brett P Rosenblatt, Managing Partner of the San Diego office and ex-head of the San Diego office's Finance Department, and Kelly D. Thomason, attorney in the Project Finance Practice Group in the San Diego office of Latham and Watkins LLP, “Financing The Nuclear Renaissance: The Benefits and Potential Pitfalls of Federal and State Government Subsidies and The Future of Nuclear Power in California”, In the Energy Law Journal, Volume 30 Number 2, 2009, pdf) NL
The size of … receive loan guarantees.

The federal government is key—insecurities about the creation of plants means the private sector won’t do the plan
Parker and Holt, 07
(Larry Parker and Mark Holt, specialists in energy policy for the Congressional Research Service, in “Nuclear Power: Outlook for New US Reactors”, a Congressional Research Service report for Congress, 3/9/07, pdf) NL
Because it is … September 2006 testimony.25

Federal loan guarantees are key to plant production in deregulated states
Frye, 08
(Roland M Frye Jr, Mr. Frye has practiced in the field of federal energy regulation for thirty-one years, in both the public and private sectors, and has served for the last sixteen years as the Senior Attorney in the Office of Commission Appellate Adjudication of the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), “The Current ‘Nuclear Renaissance in the United States, its underlying reasons and its potential pitfalls”, Energy Law Journal Volume 29 No 2, 2008, pdf) NL
By contrast, power … periods than that.