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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.
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, 2007 http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2007/11/competitive-nuclear-energy-investment-avoiding-past-policy-mistakes#_ftnref16
Today, many states ……additional restrictions.
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 the part of Jimmy Carter’s Presidential Directive 8 that indefinitely defers the commercial reprocessing and recycling of plutonium in the United States.
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, 2009 http://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]
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, 2007 http://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.
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 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, 2007 http://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.
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/
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.
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).
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.
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/water.html
Water Shortage …… be no obvious answer.
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.
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.
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.
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.