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Inherency

SMRs require technology licensing changes and waste disposal solutions

Jack Spencer is Research Fellow in Nuclear Energy in the Thomas A. Roe Institute for Economic Policy Studies, and Nicolas D. Loris is a Research Associate in the Roe Institute, at The Heritage Foundation. A Big Future for Small Nuclear Reactors?, Heritage Foundation. February 2, 2011 http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2011/02/a-big-future-for-small-nuclear-reactors#_ftnref16

While some designs ……waste management strategy.

Without effective waste policies States will prevent nuclear power

Jack Spencer is Research Fellow in Nuclear Energy in the Thomas A. Roe Institute for Economic Policy Studies at The Heritage Foundation. Competitive Nuclear Energy Investment: Avoiding Past Policy Mistakes, Heritage Foundation. November 15, 2007http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2007/11/competitive-nuclear-energy-investment-avoiding-past-policy-mistakes#_ftnref16

Today, many states ……additional restrictions.

Plan Text

United States Congress should abandon the waste confidence rule, remove the mandate that specific nuclear technologies be wedded to specific plant design, and pass legislation voiding Presidential Directive 8.

Solvency

We solve in four distinct ways, first is tech neutrality. To accomplish this Congress Must remove NRC mandate that specific technology be wedded to specific plant designs-- this is key to new nuclear technologies

Jack Spencer is Research Fellow in Nuclear Energy in the Thomas A. Roe Institute for Economic Policy Studies at The Heritage Foundation. Pitts Bill Could Be Nuclear Energy Game Changer, Heritage Foundation. July 31, 2009http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2009/07/pitts-bill-could-be-nuclear-energy-game-changer

It Would Open the ….. competitive nuclear industry.

And, NRC is customer driven, this prevents nuclear development because companies can't anticipate results

Jack Spencer is Research Fellow in Nuclear Energy in the Thomas A. Roe Institute for Economic Policy Studies, and Nicolas D. Loris is a Research Associate in the Roe Institute, at The Heritage Foundation. A Big Future for Small Nuclear Reactors?, Heritage Foundation. February 2, 2011 http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2011/02/a-big-future-for-small-nuclear-reactors#_ftnref16

Establish a new ….. commercialization ultimately depends.14

Second way we solve is voiding Presidential Directive 8-- this is critical to allow nuclear recycling

Jack Spencer is Research Fellow in Nuclear Energy in the Thomas A. Roe Institute for Economic Policy Studies at The Heritage Foundation. Competitive Nuclear Energy Investment: Avoiding Past Policy Mistakes, Heritage Foundation. November 15, 2007http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2007/11/competitive-nuclear-energy-investment-avoiding-past-policy-mistakes#_ftnref16

The U.S. government …..such as France and Japan

And, Without waste recycling the waste disposal problem is ensured— that would prevent reactor development

Jack Spencer, Senior Research Fellow, Nuclear Energy Policy. Introducing Market Forces into Nuclear Waste Management Policy, Heritage Foundation. August 31, 2010 http://www.heritage.org/research/testimony/introducing-market-forces-into-nuclear-waste-management-policy

The United States has …… Yucca could last almost indefinitely.

Third way we solve is removing the waste confidence rule which is used to prevent new licensure

Cornelius Milmoe is a lawyer and nuclear energy expert who has worked in the government and private sector. AND Jack Spencer is Research Fellow in Nuclear Energy in the Thomas A. Roe Institute for Economic Policy Studies at The Heritage Foundation. Obama Administration: No Confidence in Nuclear Energy, Heritage Foundation. March 5, 2012 http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2012/03/obama-administration-no-confidence-in-nuclear-energy#_ftnref14

Fortunately, there is …… rule to block new reactors.

The fourth way we solve is congressional powers-- Without waste storage there will be a strong executive powers

The Hill, House preparing to slap Obama administration on Yucca Mountain. June 05, 2012. http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/house/231005-house-preparing-to-slap-obama-administration-on-yucca-mountain

"The fact is we passed ……… mandated legal obligations."

Having Congress abandon the waste confidence rule it forces the NWPA to be followed and waste storage created

Cornelius Milmoe is a lawyer and nuclear energy expert who has worked in the government and private sector. AND Jack Spencer is Research Fellow in Nuclear Energy in the Thomas A. Roe Institute for Economic Policy Studies at The Heritage Foundation. Obama Administration: No Confidence in Nuclear Energy, Heritage Foundation. March 5, 2012 http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2012/03/obama-administration-no-confidence-in-nuclear-energy#_ftnref14

Time for Congress to Act ……. that America’s government bodies follow the law.

Lack of congressional power has lead to regulatory uncertainty and made the price of nuclear power skyrocket

Jack Spencer is Research Fellow in Nuclear Energy in the Thomas A. Roe Institute for Economic Policy Studies at The Heritage Foundation. Competitive Nuclear Energy Investment: Avoiding Past Policy Mistakes, Heritage Foundation. November 15, 2007http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2007/11/competitive-nuclear-energy-investment-avoiding-past-policy-mistakes#_ftnref16

The public-private relationship ……regulation after regulation.

These NRC regulations have empirically been unnecessary and quadrupled the cost of plants

Bernard L. Cohen, Professor Emeritus of Physics University of Pittsburgh. THE NUCLEAR ENERGY OPTION. September 30, 2004 http://www.phyast.pitt.edu/~blc/book/chapter9.html

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission …… plants to be abandoned.

And, SMRs can be ready for sale at the end of 2013 if certified

REBECCA SMITH. Small Reactors Generate Big Hopes, Wall Street Journal. February 18, 2010 http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703444804575071402124482176.html?mod=WSJ_article_comments#articleTabs%3Darticle

Many obstacles remain…… two or three years.

Advantage 1- Desalination

Water demand is increasing and desalination isn't cheap enough for agriculture

JEFFREY MARLOW. The Pursuit of Cost-Effective Desalination, The New York Times. September 21, 2009 http:~/~/green.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/21/on-the-pursuit-of-cost-effective-desalination/http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/21/on-the-pursuit-of-cost-effective-desalination/||style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit; line-height: 1.4em; color: rgb(0, 137, 220); text-decoration: none; "

Water demand is increasing ……play a critical role.

Substantial increase in demand over water-- wars will be fought over it in the squo

World Nuclear Association, Nuclear Desalination. June 27, 2012. http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/inf71.html

It is estimated that …… hydrogen from water.

SMRs are critical to desal across the globe

The Energy Policy Institute is an integral part of the Center for Advanced Energy Studies, which is a public/private partnership between the Idaho National Laboratory, Boise State University, the University of Idaho, Idaho State University. and private industry.

Economic and Employment Impacts of Small Modular Nuclear Reactors.June 2010. https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=vandq=cache:aF6hj4lwuxIJ:https://smr.inl.gov/Document.ashx%3Fpath%3DDOCS%252FReading%2BRoom%252FEconomic%2Band%2BEmployment%2BImpacts%2Bof%2BSMRs.pdf+andhl=enandgl=usandpid=blandsrcid=ADGEESihzQYEp_ECvsDP7cw3iE2WVhUWARw3B9Ryj-4Of_htCtoi8vWT08kYSwn3zDQaH8IboyEm0eeaS9LyU0vQ-ecRi1U4xns3RYkfX1JhokqPFf9BCqSPJNMrDG6w_S2D2cki2wJFandsig=AHIEtbTmFXYlBBYGL2EZHGxb7_95kUNhJQ

Desalination. The IAEA …….other sources of generation (Arthur, 2010).

Research proves that desalination is key to sustainable crop yields

DandWR, May 29, 2012

The International Desalination and Water Reuse Quarterly industry website, NF desalinated water 'improves marginal agriculture'. 29 May 2012. http://www.desalination.biz/news/news_story.asp?id=6541andtitle=NF+desalinated+water+'improves+marginal+agriculture'+

Agricultural experiments ……. high-quality irrigation water.

Starvation causes nuclear war

MICHAEL MANDELBAUM is Christian A. Herter Professor of American Foreign Policy at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, The Johns Hopkins University, and Director of the Project on East-West Relations at the Council on Foreign relations. Lessons of the next nuclear war, Foreign Affairs. March 1995 vol. 74, issue 2; p. 22

One possible basis, ……. it necessary for survival.

Water shortages lead to nuclear war and extinction

NASCA, National Association for Scientific and Cultural Appreciation, 2004, “Water shortages - Only a matter of time,” http:~/~/www.nasca.org.uk/Strange_relics_/water/html||style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit; line-height: 1.4em; color: rgb(0, 137, 220); text-decoration: none; "

Water Shortage …… be no obvious answer.

Wars now can be resolved easily—in the future they won’t be able to be stopped—prefer our evidence its comparative on this issue

Michael N Dobkowski, professor of religious studies at Hobart and William Smith Colleges and Isidor Wallimann, senior Lecturer in sociology at School of Social Work based m Basel Switzerland. The coming age of scarcity preventing mass death and genocide  in the twenty-first century. 1998 p. 13

In times of growth ……. general scarcity and contraction.

Advantage 2- Warming

Warming is real and human induced – drastic emissions reductions are key to avoid dangerous climate disruptions

-now is key

-AR4 = IPCC

Somerville 11 – Professor of Oceanography @ UCSD

Richard Somerville, Distinguished Professor Emeritus and Research Professor at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego, Coordinating Lead Author in Working Group I for the 2007 Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, 3-8-2011, “CLIMATE SCIENCE AND EPA'S GREENHOUSE GAS REGULATIONS,” CQ Congressional Testimony, Lexis

1n early 2007, at the …….well within this century.

If SMRs make it to market they will replace Coal power plants

Mr. John J. Licata,  Founder and Chief Energy Strategist,  Blue Phoenix Inc. America, It’s OK to favor Small Modular Reactors and phase out coal, Blue Phoenix. April 16, 2012. http://www.cmegroup.com/education/files/america-its-ok-to-favor-small-modular-reactors-and-phase-out-coal.pdf

A case can be made ……. over coal-fired plants.

Replacing Coal is most important – without solving coal warming is ensured – nuclear can do that

Steve Kirsch. The Integral Fast Reactor (IFR) project, skirsch.com. August 10, 2008 http://www.skirsch.com/politics/globalwarming/ifr.htm

I first heard about the …….. can’t figure out how to get rid of.

Tipping points coming soon – risk extinction

Hamilton 10 – Professor of Public Ethics @ ANU

Clive Hamilton, Professor of Public Ethics in Australia, 2010, “Requiem for a Species: Why We Resist the Truth About Climate Change,” pg. 1-2

One of the ……. struggle just to survive.

Tournament: NJDDT | Round: 1 | Opponent: KSU | Judge: K Stout
Extremists lack expertise

The New York Times July 27, 2011 Wednesday Late Edition - Final Suspect's Manifesto Points to Planned Anthrax Use, but Also to a Lack of Expertise p. lexis 

The manifesto of the man ... a potent weapon even harder.

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Bioterror is extremely unlikely. 

Leitenberg, ‘6
Milton, Senior research scholar at the University of Maryland, Trained as a Scientist and Moved into the Field of Arms Control in 1966, First American Recruited to Work at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, Affiliated with the Swedish Institute of International Affairs and the Center for International Studies Peace Program at Cornell University, Senior Fellow at CISSM, http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0217-27.htm

So what substantiates the alarm ... We are creating our worst nightmare.

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Tournament: NJDDT | Round: 1 | Opponent: KSU | Judge: K Stout
Science will make good predictions because of its process of establishing truth-- Not using science ensures failure to deal with imminent problems

Tad Johnson, a graduate of UW-Madison in Computer Science and currently work in the IT field, but my interests include urban planning, energy policy, photography, and entrepreneurship. Science, TadFad.com. Nov 14th, 2006  http://www.tadfad.com/2006/11/14/science/
Science is one of the few places one can find Truth ... understand this fundamental difference. 

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Flexible neoliberalism is key to address challenges – contextualizing decisions to use economic prudence strategically is comparatively better than outright rejection

Emerson 8 – Professor of Economics
Patrick Emerson, Associate Professor of Economics at Oregon State University and Research Fellow at the IZA Institute for the Study of Labor, 8-20-08, “Economist’s Notebook: Is Neoliberalism Dead?”. http://oregonecon.blogspot.com/2008/08/economists-notebook-is-neoliberalism.html

Now, however, with the impact of ...  to the forefront of popular consciousness

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Deglobalization increases poverty, decreases growth, increases political instability, and increases the liklihood of interstate conflict.

Hillebrand 10 – Visiting Professor @ UK
Evan E. Hillebrand, Visiting Professor in the Patterson School of Diplomacy at the University of Kentucky and a Senior Economist for the Central Intelligence Agency. “Deglobalization Scenarios: Who Wins? Who Loses?”. Global Economy Journal. Volume 10, Issue 2 2010 Article 3. Online

Simulations with the International Futures ... in the risk of interstate war.

Tournament: NJDDT | Round: 1 | Opponent: KSU  | Judge: K Stout
Lasers can solve space debris

Robin McKie is science and technology editor for the Observer. Asteroid headed for Earth? Give it the laser treatment…, thegaurdian. March 24, 2012. http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/mar/25/asteroid-headed-for-earth-laser

Nor are asteroids the only...could be a possible solution."