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	09/22/2012	GSU AFF Tournament: \| Round: \| Opponent: \| Judge: Warming Advantage 1 is Warming Warming is real and anthropogenic—the best scientists and even skeptics agree Ashley Portero, writer for International Business Times, “Climate Change Denier Concludes Global Warming Is Real, Caused By Humans”, 7/31/12, http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/368615/20120731/climate-change-skeptic-richard-muller-confirms-global.htm A study… ..years alone. The newest and best studies prove that CO2 is the main cause of warming Fiona Harvey, environmental correspondent for The Guardian, "Study suggests rising CO2 in the past caused global warming", April 4, http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/apr/04/study-rising-co2-global-warming) A scientific … increased global temperatures." Warming is real, anthropogenic, and causes extinction – comparatively outweighs and our evidence assumes their defense Terry L Deibel, “Foreign Affairs Strategy: Logic for American Statecraft”, p387-390, accessed via GoogleBooks on 4-26-12 Finally, there …. on this planet. Warming is the controlling impact – exacerbates all other conflict hotspots and breeds wars Jürgen Scheffran – Senior Research Scientist in the Program in Arms Control, Disarmament and International Security at the Unviersity of Illinois and has adjunct faculty appointments at the Departments of Atmospheric Sciences and Political Science, and Antonella Battaglini – Department Member of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, “Climate and conflicts: the security risks of global warming,” Reg Environ Change (2011) 11 (Suppl 1):S27–S39, DOI 10.1007/s10113-010-0175-8, accessed 5-13-12// For Gilman et al. (2007) climate … information or resources’’ (UNGA 2009, p. 2). Nuclear energy is key to prevent warming—it emits no GHGs and eliminates 2.57 billion tons of CO2 per year Joe F Colvin, President and Chief Executive officer of the Nuclear Energy Institute, “Nuclear Energy: the Global Choice for the 21^st Century”, 19^th World Energy Congress, September 2004, pdf) Nuclear power … on the planet. Nuclear power massively cuts CO2 emissions 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 Nuclear fuel‘s … one million tons.110 Leadership Advantage 2 is Civilian Nuclear Leadership Scenario 1 is China China is modernizing their nuclear industry now—absent the plan, China will become the sole superpower Scott Cullinane, graduate student at the Institute of World Politics in Washington, D.C, “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 Due to a confluence …. commercial nuclear energy trade. Loss of US leadership guarantees quick nuclear wars as everyone panics Erik Gartzke, associate professor of political science at the University of California, San Diego, 8/24/11, “Power Shuffle: Will the Coming Transition Be Peaceful”, published in Current History, journal of contemporary world affairs, pdf The world is changing. … balance of power. Scenario 2 is Proliferation The ability to combat proliferation has radically declined—only by rebuilding our nuclear infrastructure can we ensure our nonproliferation objectives succeed(HAROLD BENGELSDORF, currently a Principal with the consulting firm of Bengelsdorf, McGoldrick, and Associates, held numerous senior positions in the U.S. government, including the Energy Department and its predecessor agencies, the State Department, and the U.S. Mission to the IAEA, served as the director of both key State and Energy Department offices that are concerned with international nuclear and nonproliferation affairs, involved in the negotiation of numerous bilateral and multilateral nuclear and nonproliferation agreements, including the development of full-scope IAEA safeguards (INFCIRC/153) to implement the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) and FRED MCGOLDRICK, currently a Principal with the consulting firm of Bengelsdorf, McGoldrick, and Associates, previous U.S. State Department official, where he negotiated peaceful nuclear cooperation agreements with China, the European Atomic Energy Agency, Japan, South Africa, Switzerland, Argentina and Brazil, also served as Minister Counselor in the U.S. Mission to the IAEA. and MICHAEL SCHWARTZ is a Principal with the Washington, D.C. based consulting firm of Energy Resources International, Inc., “The U.S. Domestic Civil Nuclear Infrastructure And U.S. Nonproliferation Policy”, a white paper presented by the American Council on Global Nuclear Power Competitiveness, may 2007, pdf Today due to its ….. U.S. has supplied. Prolif guarantees preemptive nuclear wars and justifies human rights abuses Peter Weiss, President, Lawyers’ Committee on Nuclear Policy and Co-President of the International Association of Lawyers Against Nuclear Arms and its US affiliate and UN office, the Lawyers Committee on Nuclear Policy; Vice-President of the Center for Constitutional Rights; member of the Board of Advisers of the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights in Berlin; and a former Vice President of the International Federation of Human Rights in Paris, PhD from Yale, lecturer and writer on the international law of war and peace, nuclear weapons and human rights, the principal author of the draft brief on the illegality of threat or use of nuclear weapons used by many countries in making written submissions to the International Court of Justice in the 1996 nuclear weapons advisory opinion, leading human rights lawyer, and with the Center for Constitutional Rights litigated the seminal case establishing the right of victims of torture to sue their torturers in US courts (Filartiga v. Pena-Irala), founder and former President of the American Committee on Africa and former Chairman of the Board of the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington, “Six Reasons Why Nuclear Weapons Are More Dangerous Than Ever”, 3/30, American University International Law Review, pdf I am going ….. at the White House. Economy Advantage 3 is the economy The economy is weak—it’s the slowest recovery from any recession in history—we must act now or it will collapse James K Glassman, 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/ This is the …. a practical goal. Nuclear War Royal, Director of cooperative threat reduction, ‘10 [Jedediah, Director of Cooperative Threat Reduction – U.S. Department of Defense, “Economic Integration, Economic Signaling and the Problem of Economic Crises”, Economics of War and Peace: Economic, Legal and Political Perspectives, Ed. Goldsmith and Brauer, p. 213-215] Less intuitive is ….. deserves more attention. Nuclear energy solves— A) It massively spurs job growth through construction and operation of reactors The Clean and Safe Energy Coalition, “Job Creation in the Nuclear Renaissance”, White Paper, April 2009, pdf New nuclear plants….. and national level. Job growth key to the economy 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 B) It provides cost stability and is reliable Christine Todd Whitman, 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 Enter nuclear energy.…..today were licensed. Low, stable prices are key to the economy Edison Electric Institute, “Electricity and the U.S. Economy”; http://www.getenergyactive.org/value/economy.htm The U.S. economy …. price of electricity. Plantext Plan: The United States Federal Government should substantially increase the available funding for the nuclear loan guarantee program. Solvency Nuclear energy is cheap, safe, reliable, and has very little environmental impact 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. The only major barrier to nuclear development is funding issues—the plan solves all funding barriers Matt Bennett is Vice President for Public Affairs at Third Way, Josh Freed is Director of the Third Way Clean Energy initiative, Jeremy Ershow is a Policy Advisor at Third Way, “Breaking the Nuclear Financing Barrier”, February, The Clean Energy Initiative, pdf High finance costs ….. the loan volume. Loan guarantees spur the development of nuclear power—they lower interest rates and startup costs 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 Loan Guarantee Program …. yellow to red” Loan guarantees solve the initial startup cost of developing nuclear plants 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/ 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 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 The size of …. receive loan guarantees Only loan guarantees can solve—high corporate debt due to the poor economy means companies can’t get affordable financing Stephen Maloney, Partner at Azuolas Risk Advisors, served as a nuclear risk, consultant on several nuclear power plant MandA transactions, former commissioned officer in the US Navy's nuclear propulsion program and qualified as Chief Engineer for the C1W reactor, has an MS Operations Research, BS Physics, and BS Mathematics, a professional engineer, member of the Global Association of Risk Professionals, the American Mathematical Society and INFORMS, “Nuclear Power in the Global Energy Portfolio”, 2011, in “The Future of Nuclear Power in the United States”, the Federation of American Scientists and Washington and Lee University, pdf The deficit spending…. be increasingly limited. The federal government is key—insecurities about the creation of plants means the private sector won’t do the plan 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 Because it is …. September 2006 testimony. Federal loan guarantees are key to plant production in deregulated states 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 By contrast, power …. periods than that. Other nations will vamp up their nuclear programs—it’s just a question of whether we do or not Lee Hudson Teslik, senior editor at Roubini Global Economics. He formerly worked as associate editor and economics writer for the website of the Council on Foreign Relations, “Fission for Answers”, April 19, http://www.cfr.org/asia/fission-answers/p13124 While ethanol captures …. for nuclear programs.”
	10/17/2012	Updated AFF Tournament: \| Round: \| Opponent: \| Judge: Advantage One is Leadership: 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. We solve 2 scenarios Scenerio 1 is China 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. Scenario 2) Techno-hegemony 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.” Advantage 2 is the Economy 1) Economic decline 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. 2. 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. Plan solves 3 internal links to the economy 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." 2. 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. 3. 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. Scenario 2- Price Volatility 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. Plan text Plan: The United States Federal Government should substantially increase the available funding for the nuclear loan guarantee program. . Solvency 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.
	11/19/2012	2AC- DA- Fiscal Cliff Tournament: App State \| Round: 1 \| Opponent: GMU NT \| Judge: Amanda Bass Republicans won’t cooperate on fiscal cliff Bouie, 11/8 (Jamelle, Washington Post, "Mitch McConnell is already back to obstruction at all costs", 11/8, www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/post/mitch-mcconnell-is-already-back-to-obstruction-at-all-costs/2012/11/08/37a05f00-29cf-11e2-96b6-8e6a7524553f_blog.html) Negotiations about the ... one-party control.” No link—we don’t require Congressional action or spend any money Scott, 10 (Michael Scott, former senior advisor at the Department of Treasury and partner and managing director at Miller Buckfire Co as well as head of the firm’s U.S. Government Advisory practice, 4-20-2010, "Statement of Michael D. Scott" Testimony before the Subcommittee on Domestic Policy of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform in the House of Representatives, http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/CHRG-111hhrg65123/pdf/CHRG-111hhrg65123.pdf) The President and ... Credit Reform Act. Even if you buy plan action links, we’re popular Wang, 12 (Pamir Wang, works in Congressman Mike Honda’s Office. She previously coordinated conferences and research at The Nonproliferation Policy Education Center and has served as a Political Science Research Assistant at the University of California, San Diego and as an investigative intern at the San Diego County Public Defender’s office, “Federal Clean Energy Loan Guarantees: Their Moral Hazards”, March 2012, pdf) Finally, loan guarantees ... the project defaults. New Nuclear Plants have bipartisan support CNN, 10 (2/16/2010; http://articles.cnn.com/2010-02-16/politics/obama.jobs_1_nuclear-reactors-nuclear-power-new-reactors?_s=PM:POLITICS) "This is only ... and environmentally responsible." The Plan is Exempt from PTX and Spending links Scott 10 (Michael Scott, former senior advisor at the Department of Treasury and partner and managing director at Miller Buckfire Co as well as head of the firm’s U.S. Government Advisory practice, 4-20-2010, "Statement of Michael D. Scott" Testimony before the Subcommittee on Domestic Policy of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform in the House of Representatives, http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/CHRG-111hhrg65123/pdf/CHRG-111hhrg65123.pdf) The President and ... Credit Reform Act
	11/19/2012	2AC- Case- AT Nuclear Waste Tournament: \| Round: \| Opponent: \| Judge: We can store it in New Mexico Forbes, 1/25 (Christopher Helman, 1/25/2012, http://www.forbes.com/sites/christopherhelman/2012/01/25/nuke-us-meet-the-town-that-wants-americas-worst-nuclear-waste/5/) There’s a secure ... undisturbed ever since. 2. There is a very small amount of nuclear waste Cravens, 08 (Gwyneth, journalist and writer, “Is Nuclear Energy our Best Hope?”, April 25, http://discovermagazine.com/2008/may/02-is-nuclear-energy-our-best-hope/article_view?b_start:int=1and-C=) What about the ... were once exploded.
	11/19/2012	2AC- Case- AT No IndoPak War Tournament: App State \| Round: 1 \| Opponent: GMU NT \| Judge: Amanda Bass Specifically, US regional influence is key to East Asian stability and preventing Japanese militarization, Indo-Pak nuclear war, and Taiwan nuclear war Goh, 08 Lecturer in International Relations in the Department of Politics and International Relations at the Univ of Oxford (Evelyn, International Relations of the Asia-Pacific, “Hierarchy and the role of the United States in the East Asian security order,” 2008 8(3):353-377, Oxford Journals Database, _) NL The centrality of ... be much worse.
	11/19/2012	2AC- Case- AT Terrorism Tournament: App State \| Round: 1 \| Opponent: GMU NT \| Judge: Amanda Bass Terrorists can’t access the nuclear material Levi, 11 (Michael, David M. Rubenstein senior fellow for energy and environment at the Council on Foreign Relations, a nonpartisan foreign-policy think tank and membership organization, “5 Myths About Nuclear Energy”, March 16, http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/5-myths-about-nuclear-energy/2011/03/15/AB9P3Oe_story.html?fb_ref=NetworkNews) It’s easy to ... in widespread damage. Multiple barriers to nuclear terrorism Bellany, Late Emeritus Professor of Politics at the University of Lancaster, 12 (Ian, also former Director of the Centre for the Study of Arms Control and International Security and on the CTBT Commission, “Outflanking missile defences: the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty, nuclear weapons, and terrorism” Defense and Security Analysis 28:1, March 2012 , 81-96, accessed 6-21-12 Bosley) For the terrorist ... risk of detection.
	11/19/2012	2AC- Case- AT Prolif Tournament: \| Round: \| Opponent: \| Judge: Nuclear Plants LOWER Prolif Risk—it’s impossible to make weapons off of that grade of fuel and the threat would exist anyways NEI 11 (Nuclear Energy Institute, NEI is governed by a 49-member board of directors. The board includes representatives from the nation's 26 nuclear utilities, plant designers, architect/engineering firms and fuel cycle companies. Eighteen members of the board serve on the executive committee, which is responsible for NEI's business and policy affairs; President and Chief Executive Officer Energy Future Holdings Corporaiton Chairman, Nuclear Energy Institute, John F. Young is president and chief executive officer of Energy Future Holdings Corporation, a Dallas-based energy holding company with a portfolio of competitive and regulated energy subsidiaries primarily in Texas, including TXU Energy, Luminant and Oncor. Before joining EFH, Young was Exelon's executive vice president of finance and markets, responsible for Exelon's entire financial organization including the controller, treasury, planning, investor relations, corporate development, risk management, tax, audit and controls functions, and Exelon's trading and marketing organization, the Power Team. Young's previous leadership responsibilities at Exelon included the role of president of Exelon Generation, where he managed the company’s nuclear, fossil and hydro operations. In both of these leadership roles, Young oversaw the power trading and marketing operations of Exelon's Power Team. The Power Team was responsible for portfolio optimization, fuels management, wholesale marketing and Exelon Energy, the corporation's unregulated retail energy marketing entity in the Midwest. Young joined Exelon Power in March 2003 as chief operating officer and was named president of the operating unit in May 2003. Young joined Exelon from Sierra Pacific Resources Corporation, where he was senior vice president with responsibilities for the operation of the company's fossil and hydro facilities. From 1983 until 2000, Young rose through the ranks at Southern Company, then America's largest electric utility. His last position at Southern Company was executive vice president of Southern Generation, the largest wholesale energy provider in the Southeast. Young joined Southern after serving five years in the Navy, including a tour as engineering officer of the guided missile cruiser USS Ticonderoga; President and Chief Executive Officer Exelon Corporation Vice Chairman, Nuclear Energy Institute, Christopher M. Crane is president and chief executive officer of Chicago-based Exelon Corporation, the nation’s number one competitive energy provider. He oversees a family of companies representing every stage of the energy value chain, with more than 35,000 megawatts of owned generating capacity and 6.6 million electric and natural gas customers in Illinois, Maryland and Pennsylvania. Crane previously served as president and chief operating officer of Exelon Corporation. In that role, he oversaw one of the U.S. industry’s largest portfolios of electric generating capacity, with a multi-regional reach and the nation’s largest fleet of nuclear power plants. He directed a broad range of business including major acquisitions, transmission strategy, cost management initiatives, oversight of major capital programs, generation asset optimization and generation development. Crane is an acknowledged leader in the electric utility and nuclear industries. He is a member of the executive committee of the Edison Electric Institute and the board of directors of the Institute of Nuclear Power Operations, the industry organization promoting the highest levels of safety and reliability in nuclear plant operation. He is Vice Chairman of the Nuclear Energy Institute, the nation’s nuclear industry trade association, where he has also served as chairman of the New Plant Oversight Committee and as a member of the Nuclear Strategic Issues Advisory Committee, the Nuclear Fuel Supply Committee and the Materials Initiative Group. He is Vice Chairman of the World Nuclear Association, promoting the peaceful worldwide use of nuclear energy. Crane studied at New Hampshire Technical College, and attended Harvard Business School’s Advanced Management Program. He previously held a senior reactor operator certification.,Marv Fertel is president and chief executive officer of the Nuclear Energy Institute. He has 35 years of experience consulting for electric utilities on issues related to designing, siting, licensing and managing both fossil and nuclear plants. He has worked in executive positions with such organizations as Ebasco, Management Analysis Company and Tenera. In November 1990, he joined the U.S. Council for Energy Awareness as vice president of Technical Programs. With the formation of NEI in 1994, he became NEI’s vice president of Nuclear Economics and Fuel Supply. Mr. Fertel was named senior vice president and chief nuclear officer in 2003. In that role, he was responsible for leading NEI’s programs related to ensuring an effective and safety-focused regulatory process. He directed industrywide efforts to ensure adequate security is provided at nuclear power plants and to address generic technical issues related to commercial nuclear facilities. He also led NEI’s activities related to the long-term management of used nuclear fuel, including achieving success in the U.S. government’s program for the storage and ultimate disposal of used nuclear fuel. ..March 2011, http://inst.nuc.berkeley.edu/NE104/Final_Myths%20%20Facts_030711.pdf) Fact: The technology ... to the IAEA.
	11/19/2012	2AC- DA- Renewables Tradeoff Tournament: App State \| Round: 3 \| Opponent: Wayne State CP \| Judge: No link—we don’t trade off AND all subsidies for renewables aren’t used NEI, 12 (Nuclear Energy Institute, NEI is governed by a 49-member board of directors. The board includes representatives from the nation's 26 nuclear utilities, plant designers, architect/engineering firms and fuel cycle companies. Eighteen members of the board serve on the executive committee, which is responsible for NEI's business and policy affairs; President and Chief Executive Officer Energy Future Holdings Corporaiton Chairman, Nuclear Energy Institute, John F. Young is president and chief executive officer of Energy Future Holdings Corporation, a Dallas-based energy holding company with a portfolio of competitive and regulated energy subsidiaries primarily in Texas, including TXU Energy, Luminant and Oncor. Before joining EFH, Young was Exelon's executive vice president of finance and markets, responsible for Exelon's entire financial organization including the controller, treasury, planning, investor relations, corporate development, risk management, tax, audit and controls functions, and Exelon's trading and marketing organization, the Power Team. Young's previous leadership responsibilities at Exelon included the role of president of Exelon Generation, where he managed the company’s nuclear, fossil and hydro operations. In both of these leadership roles, Young oversaw the power trading and marketing operations of Exelon's Power Team. The Power Team was responsible for portfolio optimization, fuels management, wholesale marketing and Exelon Energy, the corporation's unregulated retail energy marketing entity in the Midwest. Young joined Exelon Power in March 2003 as chief operating officer and was named president of the operating unit in May 2003. Young joined Exelon from Sierra Pacific Resources Corporation, where he was senior vice president with responsibilities for the operation of the company's fossil and hydro facilities. From 1983 until 2000, Young rose through the ranks at Southern Company, then America's largest electric utility. His last position at Southern Company was executive vice president of Southern Generation, the largest wholesale energy provider in the Southeast. Young joined Southern after serving five years in the Navy, including a tour as engineering officer of the guided missile cruiser USS Ticonderoga; President and Chief Executive Officer Exelon Corporation Vice Chairman, Nuclear Energy Institute, Christopher M. Crane is president and chief executive officer of Chicago-based Exelon Corporation, the nation’s number one competitive energy provider. He oversees a family of companies representing every stage of the energy value chain, with more than 35,000 megawatts of owned generating capacity and 6.6 million electric and natural gas customers in Illinois, Maryland and Pennsylvania. Crane previously served as president and chief operating officer of Exelon Corporation. In that role, he oversaw one of the U.S. industry’s largest portfolios of electric generating capacity, with a multi-regional reach and the nation’s largest fleet of nuclear power plants. He directed a broad range of business including major acquisitions, transmission strategy, cost management initiatives, oversight of major capital programs, generation asset optimization and generation development. Crane is an acknowledged leader in the electric utility and nuclear industries. He is a member of the executive committee of the Edison Electric Institute and the board of directors of the Institute of Nuclear Power Operations, the industry organization promoting the highest levels of safety and reliability in nuclear plant operation. He is Vice Chairman of the Nuclear Energy Institute, the nation’s nuclear industry trade association, where he has also served as chairman of the New Plant Oversight Committee and as a member of the Nuclear Strategic Issues Advisory Committee, the Nuclear Fuel Supply Committee and the Materials Initiative Group. He is Vice Chairman of the World Nuclear Association, promoting the peaceful worldwide use of nuclear energy. Crane studied at New Hampshire Technical College, and attended Harvard Business School’s Advanced Management Program. He previously held a senior reactor operator certification.,Marv Fertel is president and chief executive officer of the Nuclear Energy Institute. He has 35 years of experience consulting for electric utilities on issues related to designing, siting, licensing and managing both fossil and nuclear plants. He has worked in executive positions with such organizations as Ebasco, Management Analysis Company and Tenera. In November 1990, he joined the U.S. Council for Energy Awareness as vice president of Technical Programs. With the formation of NEI in 1994, he became NEI’s vice president of Nuclear Economics and Fuel Supply. Mr. Fertel was named senior vice president and chief nuclear officer in 2003. In that role, he was responsible for leading NEI’s programs related to ensuring an effective and safety-focused regulatory process. He directed industrywide efforts to ensure adequate security is provided at nuclear power plants and to address generic technical issues related to commercial nuclear facilities. He also led NEI’s activities related to the long-term management of used nuclear fuel, including achieving success in the U.S. government’s program for the storage and ultimate disposal of used nuclear fuel. ..March 2011, http://inst.nuc.berkeley.edu/NE104/Final_Myths%20%20Facts_030711.pdf) NL Myth: Nuclear loan guarantees ... many other purposes. Alt cause— China Wingfield and Doom, 12 (Brian and Justin, Bloomberg News, "China-U.S. Trade Tensions Rise as Renewable Energy Sags", June 7, www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-06-07/china-u-s-trade-tensions-rise-as-renewable-energy-sags.html) NL When solar-panel ... the Commerce Department. China is investing heavily in wind now Reuters, July 11, 2012, China drives 24% rise in new clean tech investment, http://in.reuters.com/article/2012/07/11/clean-energy-investment-idINL6E8IB5JL20120711 China was the ... large emerging markets. i/l wind key to Chinese economy Xinhua News, July 6, 2012, China Persists in restructuring economy amid slowdown, http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/china/2012-07/06/c_131700158.htm Although the figure ... and labor shortages. Wind is key to China’s economy and diversifying it away from carbon emissions Ajay Gambhir March 6, 2012, Grantham Institute at Imperial College London, How China can decarbonize by 2050, http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/show/single/en/4795 The Grantham Institute... for buildings and appliances. U.S. subsidies hurt Chinese renewables Ecoseed, June 26, 2012, Ecoseed is a leading source for global green news, finance, and other resources in delivering green and renewable energy to mainstream businessAsia shift: R.E. investments look beyond U.S., E.U. http://www.ecoseed.org/business/asia/14911-asia-shift-r-e-investments-look-beyond-u-s-e-u Venture capital firms ... back on subsidies. China economic collapse leads to World War III The Straights Times, 6/28/2003 (Tom Plate, UCLA professor, neo-cons a bigger risk to Bush than China,”) But imagine a ... seems to prefer.
	11/19/2012	2AC- CP- States Tournament: \| Round: \| Opponent: \| Judge: Federal loan guarantees carry the highest credit rating and therefore a low interest rate—that’s key Kaplan, 08 (Stan Kaplan, Specialist in Energy and Environmental Policy for the Congressional Research Office, “Power Plants: Characteristics and Costs”, in a Congressional Research Service Report for Congress, 11/13/08, pdf) Loan Guarantees for ... without loan guarantees. Here are 10 states that can’t do the counterplan Sauter, 12 (Michael, “Ten States that Cannot Pay their Bills”, January 11, http://247wallst.com/2012/01/11/ten-states-that-cannot-pay-their-bills/3/) Balancing the budget ... state employee salaries.
	11/19/2012	2AC- DA- Farm Bill Tournament: \| Round: \| Opponent: \| Judge: Farm bill kills the economy Tyson, 02 Laura D'Andrea Tyson, dean of London Business School, June 3, 2002, “The Farm Bill Is a $200 Billion Disaster”, accessed: 7/30/07, BusinessWeek, pg. 26 The farm bill ... has been preaching. Drought prevents crop growth Farm Policy, 9/17 (FarmPolicy.com, "Ag Economy; Biofuels; Farm Bill; Trade; and, Nutrition", http://farmpolicy.com/2012/08/28/ag-economy-biofuels-farm-bill-trade-and-nutrition/) Purdue University Agricultural ... rains never came. Won’t pass- republicans avoiding food stamp fight AP, 9/19 2012 http://www.twincities.com/national/ci_21580076/farm-bill-lawmakers-returning-home-empty-handed “Farm bill not passing becomes political issue” Not this year ... adjourns this week. Political capital does nothing Jacobs, Professor of Political Studies at the University of Minnesota, and King, Professor of American Government at Oxford, 2010, (Lawrence and Desmond, “Varieties of Obamaism: Structure, Agency, and the Obama Presidency,” Perspectives on Politics (2010), 8: 793-802Bosley) But personality is ... only so far. The Plan is Exempt from politics Scott 10 (Michael Scott, former senior advisor at the Department of Treasury and partner and managing director at Miller Buckfire Co as well as head of the firm’s U.S. Government Advisory practice, 4-20-2010, "Statement of Michael D. Scott" Testimony before the Subcommittee on Domestic Policy of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform in the House of Representatives, http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/CHRG-111hhrg65123/pdf/CHRG-111hhrg65123.pdf) The President and ... Credit Reform Act. Won’t pass and no impact Potorff, 10-22 (Rich Pottorff, Doane chief economist and Washington analyst, D.C. Watch: “Fiscal cliff threat to dominate lame-duck session,” http://www.cattlenetwork.com/cattle-news/latest/DC-Watch-Fiscal-cliff-to-dominate-lame-duck-session-175271241.html) The threat of ... already this year.
	11/19/2012	2AC- Case- AT Loans Default Tournament: \| Round: \| Opponent: \| Judge: Their CBO Projection is wrong and outdated, here’s their last update CBO 11 (Congressional Budget Office, “Federal Loan Guarantees for the Construction of Nuclear Power Plants”; http://www.cbo.gov/publication/41510) Default rates and ... demand for electricity. Their Default Claims Cover Every form of Energy, Moody’s Says it’s 1.5% Goozner 5/31 (Merrill, Fiscal Times, http://www.thefiscaltimes.com/Articles/2012/05/31/Nuke-Plants-8-3-Billion-Loan-Who-Will-Pay.aspx#zxG5Z5uizkR32JJ2.99) But the industry ... around 1.5 percent. The application process is rigorous—loans won’t regularly default Morgan, 10 (Jason Morgan, corporate finance and accounting professional, US Government Loan Guarantees for New Nuclear Construction May 21, 2010, http://nuclearfissionary.com/2010/05/21/us-government-loan-guarantees-for-new-nuclear-construction/) Financial Conditions for ... the guaranteed loan.
	11/19/2012	2AC- Case- AT Meltdowns Tournament: \| Round: \| Opponent: \| Judge: Risk of meltdown in New Reactor is once in a million years NEI 11 (Nuclear Energy Institute, NEI is governed by a 49-member board of directors. The board includes representatives from the nation's 26 nuclear utilities, plant designers, architect/engineering firms and fuel cycle companies. Eighteen members of the board serve on the executive committee, which is responsible for NEI's business and policy affairs; President and Chief Executive Officer Energy Future Holdings Corporaiton Chairman, Nuclear Energy Institute, John F. Young is president and chief executive officer of Energy Future Holdings Corporation, a Dallas-based energy holding company with a portfolio of competitive and regulated energy subsidiaries primarily in Texas, including TXU Energy, Luminant and Oncor. Before joining EFH, Young was Exelon's executive vice president of finance and markets, responsible for Exelon's entire financial organization including the controller, treasury, planning, investor relations, corporate development, risk management, tax, audit and controls functions, and Exelon's trading and marketing organization, the Power Team. Young's previous leadership responsibilities at Exelon included the role of president of Exelon Generation, where he managed the company’s nuclear, fossil and hydro operations. In both of these leadership roles, Young oversaw the power trading and marketing operations of Exelon's Power Team. The Power Team was responsible for portfolio optimization, fuels management, wholesale marketing and Exelon Energy, the corporation's unregulated retail energy marketing entity in the Midwest. Young joined Exelon Power in March 2003 as chief operating officer and was named president of the operating unit in May 2003. Young joined Exelon from Sierra Pacific Resources Corporation, where he was senior vice president with responsibilities for the operation of the company's fossil and hydro facilities. From 1983 until 2000, Young rose through the ranks at Southern Company, then America's largest electric utility. His last position at Southern Company was executive vice president of Southern Generation, the largest wholesale energy provider in the Southeast. Young joined Southern after serving five years in the Navy, including a tour as engineering officer of the guided missile cruiser USS Ticonderoga; President and Chief Executive Officer Exelon Corporation Vice Chairman, Nuclear Energy Institute, Christopher M. Crane is president and chief executive officer of Chicago-based Exelon Corporation, the nation’s number one competitive energy provider. He oversees a family of companies representing every stage of the energy value chain, with more than 35,000 megawatts of owned generating capacity and 6.6 million electric and natural gas customers in Illinois, Maryland and Pennsylvania. Crane previously served as president and chief operating officer of Exelon Corporation. In that role, he oversaw one of the U.S. industry’s largest portfolios of electric generating capacity, with a multi-regional reach and the nation’s largest fleet of nuclear power plants. He directed a broad range of business including major acquisitions, transmission strategy, cost management initiatives, oversight of major capital programs, generation asset optimization and generation development. Crane is an acknowledged leader in the electric utility and nuclear industries. He is a member of the executive committee of the Edison Electric Institute and the board of directors of the Institute of Nuclear Power Operations, the industry organization promoting the highest levels of safety and reliability in nuclear plant operation. He is Vice Chairman of the Nuclear Energy Institute, the nation’s nuclear industry trade association, where he has also served as chairman of the New Plant Oversight Committee and as a member of the Nuclear Strategic Issues Advisory Committee, the Nuclear Fuel Supply Committee and the Materials Initiative Group. He is Vice Chairman of the World Nuclear Association, promoting the peaceful worldwide use of nuclear energy. Crane studied at New Hampshire Technical College, and attended Harvard Business School’s Advanced Management Program. He previously held a senior reactor operator certification.,Marv Fertel is president and chief executive officer of the Nuclear Energy Institute. He has 35 years of experience consulting for electric utilities on issues related to designing, siting, licensing and managing both fossil and nuclear plants. He has worked in executive positions with such organizations as Ebasco, Management Analysis Company and Tenera. In November 1990, he joined the U.S. Council for Energy Awareness as vice president of Technical Programs. With the formation of NEI in 1994, he became NEI’s vice president of Nuclear Economics and Fuel Supply. Mr. Fertel was named senior vice president and chief nuclear officer in 2003. In that role, he was responsible for leading NEI’s programs related to ensuring an effective and safety-focused regulatory process. He directed industrywide efforts to ensure adequate security is provided at nuclear power plants and to address generic technical issues related to commercial nuclear facilities. He also led NEI’s activities related to the long-term management of used nuclear fuel, including achieving success in the U.S. government’s program for the storage and ultimate disposal of used nuclear fuel. ..March 2011, http://inst.nuc.berkeley.edu/NE104/Final_Myths%20%20Facts_030711.pdf) Fact: The probability ... to continue operations.
	11/19/2012	2AC- DA- Russian Oil Tournament: \| Round: \| Opponent: \| Judge: Electric cars are cost competitive by 2020 Green Transportation, 6/12 (“2012 McKinsey report says electric cars will be cost competitive by 2020”, July 16, http://greentransportation.info/2012-mckinsey-report-says-electric-cars-will-be-cost-competi) In July 2012 ... reductions by 2025. Peak Oil now Perl, 10 Director of Urban Studies Program at Simon Fraser University (Anthony, “Integrating HSR into North America’s Next Mobility Transition,” June 16, 2010, p. 13016, http://wagner.nyu.edu/rudincenter/publications/RCWP_Perl.pdf) Despite an ongoing ... derived from oil. Russian economic decline doesn’t cause war Mankoff, 10 Mankoff, adjunct fellow for Russia studies at the Council on Foreign Relations, 2010 (Jeffrey, Associate Director of International Security Studies at Yale, March, “Internal and External Impact of Russia's Economic Crisis” http://www.policypointers.org/Page/View/10962) The crisis will ... reforms remains uncertain. Russian economy resilient and domestic demand prevents the impact Ivanov, 10 Ph.D. from the Institute of Hardness and Material Science Russian Academy of Science, Tomsk, Russia (Youri, Summer 2010 “Career Guide Russia” http://nases.org.uk/files/minisites/2745/career%20guide%20russia.pdf) Since the 1990s ... worldwide crisis subsides.
	11/19/2012	2AC- Case- AT Heg Bad Tournament: \| Round: \| Opponent: \| Judge: Even if they win US heg is bad a decline would cause worse global instability Layne, 12 (Christopher Layne, PhD is Robert M. Gates Chair in Intelligence and National Security at the George Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas AandM University, “The Global Power Shift from West to East”, 4/25/12, http://nationalinterest.org/article/the-global-power-shift-west-east-6796?page=show As U.S. power ... general global instability.

Date

Entry

09/22/2012

GSU AFF

10/17/2012

Updated AFF

Tournament: | Round: | Opponent: | Judge:
Advantage One is Leadership:

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.

We solve 2 scenarios

Scenerio 1 is China
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.

Scenario 2) Techno-hegemony
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.”

Advantage 2 is the Economy

1) Economic decline

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.

2. 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.

Plan solves 3 internal links to the economy

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."
2. 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.
3. 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.

Scenario 2- Price Volatility
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.
Plan text

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

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.

11/19/2012

2AC- DA- Fiscal Cliff

Tournament: App State | Round: 1 | Opponent: GMU NT | Judge: Amanda Bass
Republicans won’t cooperate on fiscal cliff
Bouie, 11/8
(Jamelle, Washington Post, "Mitch McConnell is already back to obstruction at all costs", 11/8, www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/post/mitch-mcconnell-is-already-back-to-obstruction-at-all-costs/2012/11/08/37a05f00-29cf-11e2-96b6-8e6a7524553f_blog.html)
Negotiations about the ... one-party control.”

No link—we don’t require Congressional action or spend any money
Scott, 10
(Michael Scott, former senior advisor at the Department of Treasury and partner and managing director at Miller Buckfire Co as well as head of the firm’s U.S. Government Advisory practice, 4-20-2010, "Statement of Michael D. Scott" Testimony before the Subcommittee on Domestic Policy of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform in the House of Representatives, http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/CHRG-111hhrg65123/pdf/CHRG-111hhrg65123.pdf)
The President and ... Credit Reform Act.

Even if you buy plan action links, we’re popular
Wang, 12
(Pamir Wang, works in Congressman Mike Honda’s Office. She previously coordinated conferences and research at The Nonproliferation Policy Education Center and has served as a Political Science Research Assistant at the University of California, San Diego and as an investigative intern at the San Diego County Public Defender’s office, “Federal Clean Energy Loan Guarantees: Their Moral Hazards”, March 2012, pdf)
Finally, loan guarantees ... the project defaults.

New Nuclear Plants have bipartisan support
CNN, 10
(2/16/2010; http://articles.cnn.com/2010-02-16/politics/obama.jobs_1_nuclear-reactors-nuclear-power-new-reactors?_s=PM:POLITICS)
"This is only ... and environmentally responsible."

The Plan is Exempt from PTX and Spending links
Scott 10
(Michael Scott, former senior advisor at the Department of Treasury and partner and managing director at Miller Buckfire Co as well as head of the firm’s U.S. Government Advisory practice, 4-20-2010, "Statement of Michael D. Scott" Testimony before the Subcommittee on Domestic Policy of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform in the House of Representatives, http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/CHRG-111hhrg65123/pdf/CHRG-111hhrg65123.pdf)
The President and ... Credit Reform Act

11/19/2012

2AC- Case- AT Nuclear Waste

11/19/2012

2AC- Case- AT No IndoPak War

11/19/2012

2AC- Case- AT Terrorism

11/19/2012

2AC- Case- AT Prolif

Tournament: | Round: | Opponent: | Judge:
Nuclear Plants LOWER Prolif Risk—it’s impossible to make weapons off of that grade of fuel and the threat would exist anyways
NEI 11 (Nuclear Energy Institute, NEI is governed by a 49-member board of directors. The board includes representatives from the nation's 26 nuclear utilities, plant designers, architect/engineering firms and fuel cycle companies. Eighteen members of the board serve on the executive committee, which is responsible for NEI's business and policy affairs; President and Chief Executive Officer Energy Future Holdings Corporaiton Chairman, Nuclear Energy Institute, John F. Young is president and chief executive officer of Energy Future Holdings Corporation, a Dallas-based energy holding company with a portfolio of competitive and regulated energy subsidiaries primarily in Texas, including TXU Energy, Luminant and Oncor. Before joining EFH, Young was Exelon's executive vice president of finance and markets, responsible for Exelon's entire financial organization including the controller, treasury, planning, investor relations, corporate development, risk management, tax, audit and controls functions, and Exelon's trading and marketing organization, the Power Team. Young's previous leadership responsibilities at Exelon included the role of president of Exelon Generation, where he managed the company’s nuclear, fossil and hydro operations. In both of these leadership roles, Young oversaw the power trading and marketing operations of Exelon's Power Team. The Power Team was responsible for portfolio optimization, fuels management, wholesale marketing and Exelon Energy, the corporation's unregulated retail energy marketing entity in the Midwest. Young joined Exelon Power in March 2003 as chief operating officer and was named president of the operating unit in May 2003. Young joined Exelon from Sierra Pacific Resources Corporation, where he was senior vice president with responsibilities for the operation of the company's fossil and hydro facilities. From 1983 until 2000, Young rose through the ranks at Southern Company, then America's largest electric utility. His last position at Southern Company was executive vice president of Southern Generation, the largest wholesale energy provider in the Southeast. Young joined Southern after serving five years in the Navy, including a tour as engineering officer of the guided missile cruiser USS Ticonderoga; President and Chief Executive Officer Exelon Corporation Vice Chairman, Nuclear Energy Institute, Christopher M. Crane is president and chief executive officer of Chicago-based Exelon Corporation, the nation’s number one competitive energy provider. He oversees a family of companies representing every stage of the energy value chain, with more than 35,000 megawatts of owned generating capacity and 6.6 million electric and natural gas customers in Illinois, Maryland and Pennsylvania. Crane previously served as president and chief operating officer of Exelon Corporation. In that role, he oversaw one of the U.S. industry’s largest portfolios of electric generating capacity, with a multi-regional reach and the nation’s largest fleet of nuclear power plants. He directed a broad range of business including major acquisitions, transmission strategy, cost management initiatives, oversight of major capital programs, generation asset optimization and generation development. Crane is an acknowledged leader in the electric utility and nuclear industries. He is a member of the executive committee of the Edison Electric Institute and the board of directors of the Institute of Nuclear Power Operations, the industry organization promoting the highest levels of safety and reliability in nuclear plant operation. He is Vice Chairman of the Nuclear Energy Institute, the nation’s nuclear industry trade association, where he has also served as chairman of the New Plant Oversight Committee and as a member of the Nuclear Strategic Issues Advisory Committee, the Nuclear Fuel Supply Committee and the Materials Initiative Group. He is Vice Chairman of the World Nuclear Association, promoting the peaceful worldwide use of nuclear energy. Crane studied at New Hampshire Technical College, and attended Harvard Business School’s Advanced Management Program. He previously held a senior reactor operator certification.,Marv Fertel is president and chief executive officer of the Nuclear Energy Institute. He has 35 years of experience consulting for electric utilities on issues related to designing, siting, licensing and managing both fossil and nuclear plants. He has worked in executive positions with such organizations as Ebasco, Management Analysis Company and Tenera. In November 1990, he joined the U.S. Council for Energy Awareness as vice president of Technical Programs. With the formation of NEI in 1994, he became NEI’s vice president of Nuclear Economics and Fuel Supply. Mr. Fertel was named senior vice president and chief nuclear officer in 2003. In that role, he was responsible for leading NEI’s programs related to ensuring an effective and safety-focused regulatory process. He directed industrywide efforts to ensure adequate security is provided at nuclear power plants and to address generic technical issues related to commercial nuclear facilities. He also led NEI’s activities related to the long-term management of used nuclear fuel, including achieving success in the U.S. government’s program for the storage and ultimate disposal of used nuclear fuel. ..March 2011, http://inst.nuc.berkeley.edu/NE104/Final_Myths%20%20Facts_030711.pdf)
Fact: The technology ... to the IAEA.

11/19/2012

2AC- DA- Renewables Tradeoff

Tournament: App State | Round: 3 | Opponent: Wayne State CP | Judge:
No link—we don’t trade off AND all subsidies for renewables aren’t used
NEI, 12
(Nuclear Energy Institute, NEI is governed by a 49-member board of directors. The board includes representatives from the nation's 26 nuclear utilities, plant designers, architect/engineering firms and fuel cycle companies. Eighteen members of the board serve on the executive committee, which is responsible for NEI's business and policy affairs; President and Chief Executive Officer Energy Future Holdings Corporaiton Chairman, Nuclear Energy Institute, John F. Young is president and chief executive officer of Energy Future Holdings Corporation, a Dallas-based energy holding company with a portfolio of competitive and regulated energy subsidiaries primarily in Texas, including TXU Energy, Luminant and Oncor. Before joining EFH, Young was Exelon's executive vice president of finance and markets, responsible for Exelon's entire financial organization including the controller, treasury, planning, investor relations, corporate development, risk management, tax, audit and controls functions, and Exelon's trading and marketing organization, the Power Team. Young's previous leadership responsibilities at Exelon included the role of president of Exelon Generation, where he managed the company’s nuclear, fossil and hydro operations. In both of these leadership roles, Young oversaw the power trading and marketing operations of Exelon's Power Team. The Power Team was responsible for portfolio optimization, fuels management, wholesale marketing and Exelon Energy, the corporation's unregulated retail energy marketing entity in the Midwest. Young joined Exelon Power in March 2003 as chief operating officer and was named president of the operating unit in May 2003. Young joined Exelon from Sierra Pacific Resources Corporation, where he was senior vice president with responsibilities for the operation of the company's fossil and hydro facilities. From 1983 until 2000, Young rose through the ranks at Southern Company, then America's largest electric utility. His last position at Southern Company was executive vice president of Southern Generation, the largest wholesale energy provider in the Southeast. Young joined Southern after serving five years in the Navy, including a tour as engineering officer of the guided missile cruiser USS Ticonderoga; President and Chief Executive Officer Exelon Corporation Vice Chairman, Nuclear Energy Institute, Christopher M. Crane is president and chief executive officer of Chicago-based Exelon Corporation, the nation’s number one competitive energy provider. He oversees a family of companies representing every stage of the energy value chain, with more than 35,000 megawatts of owned generating capacity and 6.6 million electric and natural gas customers in Illinois, Maryland and Pennsylvania. Crane previously served as president and chief operating officer of Exelon Corporation. In that role, he oversaw one of the U.S. industry’s largest portfolios of electric generating capacity, with a multi-regional reach and the nation’s largest fleet of nuclear power plants. He directed a broad range of business including major acquisitions, transmission strategy, cost management initiatives, oversight of major capital programs, generation asset optimization and generation development. Crane is an acknowledged leader in the electric utility and nuclear industries. He is a member of the executive committee of the Edison Electric Institute and the board of directors of the Institute of Nuclear Power Operations, the industry organization promoting the highest levels of safety and reliability in nuclear plant operation. He is Vice Chairman of the Nuclear Energy Institute, the nation’s nuclear industry trade association, where he has also served as chairman of the New Plant Oversight Committee and as a member of the Nuclear Strategic Issues Advisory Committee, the Nuclear Fuel Supply Committee and the Materials Initiative Group. He is Vice Chairman of the World Nuclear Association, promoting the peaceful worldwide use of nuclear energy. Crane studied at New Hampshire Technical College, and attended Harvard Business School’s Advanced Management Program. He previously held a senior reactor operator certification.,Marv Fertel is president and chief executive officer of the Nuclear Energy Institute. He has 35 years of experience consulting for electric utilities on issues related to designing, siting, licensing and managing both fossil and nuclear plants. He has worked in executive positions with such organizations as Ebasco, Management Analysis Company and Tenera. In November 1990, he joined the U.S. Council for Energy Awareness as vice president of Technical Programs. With the formation of NEI in 1994, he became NEI’s vice president of Nuclear Economics and Fuel Supply. Mr. Fertel was named senior vice president and chief nuclear officer in 2003. In that role, he was responsible for leading NEI’s programs related to ensuring an effective and safety-focused regulatory process. He directed industrywide efforts to ensure adequate security is provided at nuclear power plants and to address generic technical issues related to commercial nuclear facilities. He also led NEI’s activities related to the long-term management of used nuclear fuel, including achieving success in the U.S. government’s program for the storage and ultimate disposal of used nuclear fuel. ..March 2011, http://inst.nuc.berkeley.edu/NE104/Final_Myths%20%20Facts_030711.pdf) NL
Myth: Nuclear loan guarantees ... many other purposes.

Alt cause— China
Wingfield and Doom, 12
(Brian and Justin, Bloomberg News, "China-U.S. Trade Tensions Rise as Renewable Energy Sags", June 7, www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-06-07/china-u-s-trade-tensions-rise-as-renewable-energy-sags.html) NL
When solar-panel ... the Commerce Department.

China is investing heavily in wind now
Reuters, July 11, 2012, China drives 24% rise in new clean tech investment, http://in.reuters.com/article/2012/07/11/clean-energy-investment-idINL6E8IB5JL20120711
China was the ... large emerging markets.

i/l wind key to Chinese economy
Xinhua News, July 6, 2012, China Persists in restructuring economy amid slowdown, http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/china/2012-07/06/c_131700158.htm
Although the figure ... and labor shortages.

Wind is key to China’s economy and diversifying it away from carbon emissions
Ajay Gambhir March 6, 2012, Grantham Institute at Imperial College London, How China can decarbonize by 2050, http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/show/single/en/4795
The Grantham Institute... for buildings and appliances.

U.S. subsidies hurt Chinese renewables
Ecoseed, June 26, 2012, Ecoseed is a leading source for global green news, finance, and other resources in delivering green and renewable energy to mainstream businessAsia shift: R.E. investments look beyond U.S., E.U. http://www.ecoseed.org/business/asia/14911-asia-shift-r-e-investments-look-beyond-u-s-e-u
Venture capital firms ... back on subsidies.

China economic collapse leads to World War III
The Straights Times, 6/28/2003 (Tom Plate, UCLA professor, neo-cons a bigger risk to Bush than China,”)
But imagine a ... seems to prefer.

11/19/2012

2AC- CP- States

11/19/2012

2AC- DA- Farm Bill

11/19/2012

2AC- Case- AT Loans Default

11/19/2012

2AC- Case- AT Meltdowns

Tournament: | Round: | Opponent: | Judge:
Risk of meltdown in New Reactor is once in a million years
NEI 11 (Nuclear Energy Institute, NEI is governed by a 49-member board of directors. The board includes representatives from the nation's 26 nuclear utilities, plant designers, architect/engineering firms and fuel cycle companies. Eighteen members of the board serve on the executive committee, which is responsible for NEI's business and policy affairs; President and Chief Executive Officer Energy Future Holdings Corporaiton Chairman, Nuclear Energy Institute, John F. Young is president and chief executive officer of Energy Future Holdings Corporation, a Dallas-based energy holding company with a portfolio of competitive and regulated energy subsidiaries primarily in Texas, including TXU Energy, Luminant and Oncor. Before joining EFH, Young was Exelon's executive vice president of finance and markets, responsible for Exelon's entire financial organization including the controller, treasury, planning, investor relations, corporate development, risk management, tax, audit and controls functions, and Exelon's trading and marketing organization, the Power Team. Young's previous leadership responsibilities at Exelon included the role of president of Exelon Generation, where he managed the company’s nuclear, fossil and hydro operations. In both of these leadership roles, Young oversaw the power trading and marketing operations of Exelon's Power Team. The Power Team was responsible for portfolio optimization, fuels management, wholesale marketing and Exelon Energy, the corporation's unregulated retail energy marketing entity in the Midwest. Young joined Exelon Power in March 2003 as chief operating officer and was named president of the operating unit in May 2003. Young joined Exelon from Sierra Pacific Resources Corporation, where he was senior vice president with responsibilities for the operation of the company's fossil and hydro facilities. From 1983 until 2000, Young rose through the ranks at Southern Company, then America's largest electric utility. His last position at Southern Company was executive vice president of Southern Generation, the largest wholesale energy provider in the Southeast. Young joined Southern after serving five years in the Navy, including a tour as engineering officer of the guided missile cruiser USS Ticonderoga; President and Chief Executive Officer Exelon Corporation Vice Chairman, Nuclear Energy Institute, Christopher M. Crane is president and chief executive officer of Chicago-based Exelon Corporation, the nation’s number one competitive energy provider. He oversees a family of companies representing every stage of the energy value chain, with more than 35,000 megawatts of owned generating capacity and 6.6 million electric and natural gas customers in Illinois, Maryland and Pennsylvania. Crane previously served as president and chief operating officer of Exelon Corporation. In that role, he oversaw one of the U.S. industry’s largest portfolios of electric generating capacity, with a multi-regional reach and the nation’s largest fleet of nuclear power plants. He directed a broad range of business including major acquisitions, transmission strategy, cost management initiatives, oversight of major capital programs, generation asset optimization and generation development. Crane is an acknowledged leader in the electric utility and nuclear industries. He is a member of the executive committee of the Edison Electric Institute and the board of directors of the Institute of Nuclear Power Operations, the industry organization promoting the highest levels of safety and reliability in nuclear plant operation. He is Vice Chairman of the Nuclear Energy Institute, the nation’s nuclear industry trade association, where he has also served as chairman of the New Plant Oversight Committee and as a member of the Nuclear Strategic Issues Advisory Committee, the Nuclear Fuel Supply Committee and the Materials Initiative Group. He is Vice Chairman of the World Nuclear Association, promoting the peaceful worldwide use of nuclear energy. Crane studied at New Hampshire Technical College, and attended Harvard Business School’s Advanced Management Program. He previously held a senior reactor operator certification.,Marv Fertel is president and chief executive officer of the Nuclear Energy Institute. He has 35 years of experience consulting for electric utilities on issues related to designing, siting, licensing and managing both fossil and nuclear plants. He has worked in executive positions with such organizations as Ebasco, Management Analysis Company and Tenera. In November 1990, he joined the U.S. Council for Energy Awareness as vice president of Technical Programs. With the formation of NEI in 1994, he became NEI’s vice president of Nuclear Economics and Fuel Supply. Mr. Fertel was named senior vice president and chief nuclear officer in 2003. In that role, he was responsible for leading NEI’s programs related to ensuring an effective and safety-focused regulatory process. He directed industrywide efforts to ensure adequate security is provided at nuclear power plants and to address generic technical issues related to commercial nuclear facilities. He also led NEI’s activities related to the long-term management of used nuclear fuel, including achieving success in the U.S. government’s program for the storage and ultimate disposal of used nuclear fuel. ..March 2011, http://inst.nuc.berkeley.edu/NE104/Final_Myths%20%20Facts_030711.pdf)
Fact: The probability ... to continue operations.

11/19/2012

2AC- DA- Russian Oil

11/19/2012

2AC- Case- AT Heg Bad

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