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Plan: The United States federal government should substantially reduce its restrictions on oil production by allowing for oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
Advantage 1 is Economy
Economy on Brink of collapse now
Morici 12
(Peter, July 26, 2012, economist and professor at the University of Maryland's Smith School of Business, “The coming economic collapse and what can – and cannot – be done”, http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/2012-07-26/news/fl-pmcol-economics-fri0727-20120726_1_wall-street-banks-export-driven-growth-tax-cuts, 8/2/12, atl)

The U.S. economy is teetering on the brink of another recession.
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and set off hyperinflation, but it can't lower interest rates much further.

ANWR will produce nearly 1 Million Jobs directly
Weidenbaum 05
(Murray, Edward Mallinckrodt Distinguished University Professor and Honorary Chairman of the Murray Weidenbaum Center on the Economy, January, 2005, “The Case for Drilling”, http://www.crawfordsworld.com/rob/HEG/HEG_Economics/HEGHomework/Brief02ALASKAPRO.html, 8/3/12, atl)

And the entire U.S. economy benefits from domestic production when new construction
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of dollars from bonus bids, lease rentals, royalties, and taxes.
The oil industry is key – Multiplier and trickle down effect
Energy Security Leadership Council, 12
(May 8, 2012, Members: Admiral Dennis C. Blair, U.S. Navy (Ret.) Former Director of National Intelligence and Commander in Chief, U.S. Pacific Command General Bryan “Doug” Brown, U.S. Army (Ret.) Former Commander, U.S. Special Operations Command Steve Cahillane President and CEO, Coca-Cola Refreshments (CCR), The Coca-Cola Company Admiral Vern Clark, U.S. Navy (Ret.) Former Chief of Naval Operations General Richard A. Cody, U.S. Army (Ret.) Former Vice Chairman, U.S. Army General James Conway, U.S. Marine Corps (Ret.) 34th Commandant, United States Marine Corps Sam Gilliland Chairman and CEO, Sabre Holdings Adam M. Goldstein President and CEO, Royal Caribbean International General John A. Gordon, U.S. Air Force (Ret.) Former Homeland Security Advisor to the President Maurice R. Greenberg Chairman and CEO, C.V. Starr and Co., Inc General John W. Handy, U.S. Air Force (Ret.) Former Commander, U.S. Transportation and Air Mobility Command Admiral Gregory G. Johnson, U.S. Navy (Ret.) Former Commander, U.S. Naval Forces, Europe General John M. Keane, U.S. Army (Ret.) Former Vice Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army Admiral Timothy J. Keating, U.S. Navy (Ret.) Former Commander, U.S. Pacific Command Herbert D. Kelleher Founder and Chairman Emeritus, Southwest Airlines Co. John F. Lehman Former Secretary to the U.S. Navy General Michael E. Ryan, U.S. Air Force (Ret.) 16th Chief of Staff, U.S. Air Force Eric S. Schwartz Former Co-CEO, Goldman Sachs Asset Management Michael R. Splinter President and CEO, Applied Materials, Inc. Jeffrey C. Sprecher Chairman and CEO, Intercontinental Exchange David P. Steiner CEO, Waste Management, Inc. Michael T. Strianese President, CEO and Director, L-3 Communications General Charles F. Wald, U.S. Air Force (Ret.) Former Deputy Commander, United States European Command Josh S. Weston Honorary Chairman, Automatic Data Processing, Inc. “The New American Oil Boom implications for energy security”, http://www.eenews.net/assets/2012/05/08/document_ew_01.pdf, 6/2/12)

The oil industry will be an important source of employment growth: As the number
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oil and gas industry in the coming decade could total several hundred thousand.

Failure to resolve unemployment independently guarantees collapse
Spicer, 12
(Jonathan, Reuters correspondent, April 8, 2012, “High unemployment may dog the US for years”, http://economywatch.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/04/08/11085339-high-unemployment-may-dog-the-us-for-years?lite, 6/2/12, atl)

"We're living through a juncture in U.S. policy history in which
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if had they lost their job when the rate was below 6 percent.

Second is the trade deficit  
Latham 09
(Roy, Degrees in Electrical Engineering, and in Aeronautics and Astronautics (M.I.T., 1969), Applied Mathematics and Statistics (Stony Brook), and Computer Science (University of Santa Clara).September 18, 2009, “Drilling Is Not About the Price of Oil, It is About Trade Deficits”, http://factspluslogic.com/articles/10/drilling-is-not-about-the-price-of-oil, 8/2/12, atl)

By comparison, the total foreign trade deficit with China since 1980 is about $
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involved means that strict environmental safeguards are affordable and ought to be imposed.

Deficit reduction is critical to sustained growth and outweighs alt causes
Tonelson, 11
(Alan, Research Fellow at the U.S. Business and Industry Educational Foundation, July 29, 2012, “Trade Deficit Reduction -- America's Only Way Out”, http://americaneconomicalert.org/view_art.asp?Prod_ID=4658, 8/3/12, atl)

This morning’s dismaying report from the government on gross domestic product confirms that economic growth
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high-unemployment mode for years. And that’s the most optimistic scenario. 

US is key to the global economy
Caploe 09
(David, PhD in International political economy from Princeton, “Focus still on America to lead global recovery,” The Straits Times, 8/2/12)

IN THE aftermath of the G-20 summit, most observers seem to have
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recovery for the foreseeable future, even though other countries must certainly help.

Statiticsal studies prove decline causes war
Royal 10
– Director of CTR 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 how periods of economic decline may increase the likelihood of external conflict
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not featured prominently in the economic-security debate and deserves more attention. 

Extinction
Bearden 2K
T.E. Bearden, LTC U.S. Army (Retired), 2000 [“The Unnecessary Energy Crisis: How to Solve It Quickly,” http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3aaf97f22e23.htm, June 24]

History bears out that desperate nations take desperate actions. Prior to the final economic
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, and perhaps most of the biosphere, at least for many decades.

Effective management of resources like oil is key to sustainable growth
Sagoff 97
Mark The Atlantic Monthly; June 1997; Do We Consume Too Much; Volume 279, No. 6; pages 80-96. http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/97jun/consume.htm the author of The Economy of the Earth (1988). He does research for the Institute of Philosophy and Public Policy at the University of Maryland.

These prudential and economic arguments are not likely to succeed much longer. It is
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efficient than those sold in 1980, saving consumers billions in electric bills.

Advantage 2 is Oil
Despite overall increases in US energy production, oil dependence still remains relatively high
Mufson ’12
(Steven, Washington Post, “Iran’s saber rattling over oil shows that the energy crisis is still with us,” 2/15, http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/even-as-oil-costs-rise-irrational-exuberance-washes-over-energy-analysis/2012/02/12/gIQAnY93FR_story.html)

But wait. What happened to the energy crisis? Rising tensions over Iran’s saber
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on foreign oil to cover about half of U.S. consumption.
Oil dependence tanks Heg
Hornitschek ’06
(Michael J, Lieutenant Colonel in the United States Air Force, Air Force Journal of Logistics, “War Without Oil: Catalyst for Transformation Fuel Hedging: Lessons from the Airlines,” Fall, http://www.aflma.hq.af.mil/shared/media/document/AFD-100111-097.pdf, TGA)

This type of mushrooming, emerging-economy demand elevates prices and precisely collides with
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, the most significant of which is the family of plastics and fertilizers.

ANWR drilling eliminates foreign oil dependence
Hastings, 11
(Richard Norman, Committee on Natural Resources Congressional Chairman, House Representative – Washington, House Nuclear Clean-Up Caucus (Chairman and founder) Northwest Energy Caucus (Co-chair) Rural Health Care Coalition Specialty Crop Caucus,  November 3, 2011, “Forget 10 Years--Drilling ANWR Would Pay Off Right Away”, http://www.usnews.com/debate-club/is-it-time-to-drill-in-the-arctic-refuge/forget-10-years~-~-drilling-anwr-would-pay-off-right-away, 6/23/12, atl)

ANWR contains an estimated 10.4 billion barrels of oil that could be used
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will decline by one barrel—insulating ourselves from the unstable global market. 

ANWR drilling key to solving oil dependence and maintaining US hegemony
Corsi 5
(Jerome, PhD and Senior Staff Reporter, World Net Daily, “Why ANWR Drilling Makes Sense,” 11/11, http://www.wnd.com/2005/11/33357/, TGA)

Opening up even a limited area of ANWR for drilling would offer the prospect of
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company executives to put more capital into the supply side of the equation.

History proves hegemony solves war – our gradual improvements to the international system are paying off
Drezner 05
[Daniel, Gregg Easterbrook, Associate Professor of International Politics at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, “War, and the dangers of extrapolation,” may 25]

Daily explosions in Iraq, massacres in Sudan, the Koreas smakestaring at each other
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of force potentially more attractive, because of the minimization of spillover effects.

Statistical evidence proves
Owen 11
John M. Owen Professor of Politics at University of Virginia PhD from Harvard "DON’T DISCOUNT HEGEMONY" Feb 11 www.cato-unbound.org/2011/02/11/john-owen/dont-discount-hegemony/ 

Andrew Mack and his colleagues at the Human Security Report Project are to be congratulated
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in part by the emergence of the United States as the global hegemon. 

HEG Solves every transnational threat
Ikenberry 11
[spring, A World of Our Making G. John Ikenberry is the Albert G. Milbank Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton, http://www.democracyjournal.org/20/a-world-of-our-making.php?page=all] 

Grand Strategy as Liberal Order Building American dominance of the global system will eventually yield
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its networks of social relations, that are available for solving collective problems. 

Warming causes extinction
Deibel 7
Terry L. Deibel, Professor of National Strategy at the National War College, 2007, Foreign Affairs Strategy: Logic for American Statecraft, p. 387-389

Finally, there is one major existential threat to American security (as well as
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States, but potentially to the continued existence of life on this planet.

Terrorism – causes extinction even if unsuccessful
Sid Ahmed 4
Mohamed Sid-Ahmed, political analyst, August 26 – September 1, 2004, Al-Ahram Weekly On-Line,  http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2004/705/op5.htm

We have reached a point in human history where the phenomenon of terrorism has to
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When nuclear pollution infects the whole planet, we will all be losers.

Onto solvency

Plan solves multiple internal links to the economy, eliminates reliance on foreign oil, will have no environmental impacts, and is publicy popular with Alaskans and Americans
Hastings 11
HASTINGS, 09/21/2011, (Chairman Doc Hastings, The House Natural Resources Committee Hearing on “ANWR: Jobs, Energy and Deficit Reduction”, ONLINE, http://naturalresources.house.gov/calendar/eventsingle.aspx?EventID=259446) Doc Hastings is the Chairman of the Congressional Natural Resources Committee
¶ Chairman Doc Hastings recently announced plans to recommend increased offshore and onshore drilling –
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Village of Kaktovik - the only town within the coastal plain of ANWR.

ANWR is the best place for domestic onshore drilling
Murkowski 11
(11/3/11, Lisa Murkowski, ANWR is the best prospect for onshore domestic oil production, http://www.usnews.com/debate-club/is-it-time-to-drill-in-the-arctic-refuge/anwr-is-the-best-prospect-for-onshore-domestic-oil-production)

Our dependence on foreign oil comes at a staggering cost. Last year alone,
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domestic oil reserves in the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

ANWR drilling would quickly solve oil dependence – it’s the most accessible and bountiful domestic well
Kreutzer ’08
(David W, Research Fellow in Energy Economics and Climate Change, Heritage Foundation, “The Economic Case for Drilling Oil Reserves,” 10/1, http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2008/10/the-economic-case-for-drilling-oil-reserves, TGA)

Increasing domestic production of petroleum will affect the economy two ways: First, it
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pipeline, which has over 1 million barrels of unused capacity right now.

Tournament:  | Round:  | Opponent:  | Judge:
ADV 1 – THE GRID 

THE GRID IS AT RISK NOW AND WILL FAIL WITHIN 3 YEARS – CYBER EXPERTS AGREE
Huff 12
(Ethan A, staff writer at natural news “Hacking expert says catastrophic failure of smart energy grid within 3 year” http://usahitman.com/hcfseg/, SEH)

For at least the past five years, the federal government has been pushing utility
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Internet, and effectively without any protection, is insanity at its finest.”

POWER DISRUPTIONS SEVERELY COMPROMISE GLOBAL MILITARY OPERATIONS – ONLY POWER FROM SMRs ENSURES SUSTAINED RELIABILITY
Andres and Breetz, Security Prof @ National War College, ’11
Richard B. Andres, Professor of National Security Strategy at the National War College, Senior Fellow and Energy and Environmental Security and Policy Chair in the Center for Strategic Research, Institute for National Strategic Studies, at the National Defense University, Hanna L. Breetz, Political Science PhD Candidate at MIT, “Small Nuclear Reactors for Military Installations: Capabilities, Costs, and Technological Implications,” Strategic Forum, INSS, February 2011

The DOD interest in small reactors derives largely from problems with base and logistics vulnerability
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in order to win an ongoing battle or war would be greatly reduced.

PURCHASING ELECTRICITY FROM SMRs SOLVES INEVITABLE POWER DISRUPTION
Robitaille, Army Environmental Center, ’12
George E. Robitaille, Department of Army Civilian, US Army Environmental Center, Master of Strategic Studies from The US Army War College, “Small Modular Reactors: The Army’s Secure Source of Energy?,” March 21st 2012

According to a recent report by the Defense Science Board, the DoD gets ninety
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associated with building coal or natural gas fired power plants on the environment.
SCENARIO 1 – China / Taiwan Conflict
China/Taiwan tensions growing – conflict risks high
Bloomberg 12
(2/26, China-Taiwan Tensions Could Loom Over U.S. ‘Pivot’ to Asia: View, www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-02-27/china-taiwan-tensions-could-loom-over-u-s-pivot-to-asia-view.html)

As China’s economic and military power grows, and Taiwan’s long-term future remains
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the U.S. temptation to advance those ties at Taiwan’s expense.
Military power disruption ensures an invasion of Taiwan by creating a window of opportunity for China to strike while US forces are out of commission
Gerson, Research analyst at the Center for Naval Analyses, 09
(Conventional Deterrence in the Second Nuclear Age http://www.carlisle.army.mil/usawc/parameters/Articles/09autumn/gerson.pdf)

Deterrence is once again a topic of discussion and debate among US defense and policy
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if the regime believes it can accomplish its objectives before US forces respond.
Global Nuclear Conflict
Hunkovic, Professor American Military University, 09
(Lee J, 2009, “The Chinese-Taiwanese Conflict Possible Futures of a Confrontation between China, Taiwan and the United States of America”, http://www.lamp-method.org/eCommons/Hunkovic.pdf)

A war between China, Taiwan and the United States has the potential to escalate
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outcome, therefore, other countries will not be considered in this study.
 

ADV 2 – Nuclear Leadership
Development of nuclear power increasing worldwide – despite Fukushima
Barber, Chief Analyst for Energy Central, 8-30
Wayne Barber, Chief of Generation for Energy Central's Generation Hub, “IAEA Report Finds Fukushima Didn't Cripple Nuclear Future,” August 30th 2012, http://www.energybiz.com/article/12/08/iaea-report-finds-fukushima-didnt-cripple-nuclear-future

Less than 18 months after the meltdown accident at Tokyo Electric Power Co.’s
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years, “although there is room for further improvement,” IAEA said.

Failure to maintain nuclear leadership risks prolif, conflicts, and meltdowns – cedes nonprolif and nuclear safety to the next developer
Wallace and Williams, 2012 (Michael, Senior Advisor at the CSIS and Nuclear Energy Expert; Sarah, Program Coordinator and Research Associate for the U.S. Nuclear Energy Project at the CSIS; “Nuclear Energy in America: Preventing its Early Demise”, Center for Strategic and International Studies, Global Forecast, April 11, http://csis.org/files/publication/120417_gf_wallace_williams.pdf)

America’s nuclear energy industry is in decline. Low natural gas prices, financing hurdles
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.S. nuclear industry and take action to prevent its early demise.

An SMR lead revival of the industry restores US nuclear leadership which controls proliferation risks
Loudermilk, Senior Energy Associate @ NDU, ’11
Micah J. Loudermilk, Senior Associate for the Energy and Environmental Security Policy program with The Institute for National Strategic Studies at National Defense University, “Small Nuclear Reactors and US Energy Security: Concepts, Capabilities, and Costs,” Journal of Energy Security, May 2011, http://www.ensec.org/index.php?option=com_contentandview=articleandid=314:small-nuclear-reactors-and-us-energy-security-concepts-capabilities-and-costsandcatid=116:content0411andItemid=375

Combating proliferation with US leadership: Reactor safety itself notwithstanding, many argue that the
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reactors are mitigated and concerns over the widespread distribution of nuclear fuel allayed.

SCENARIO 1 – Prolif
Prolif is on the brink – expanding push for nuclear energy globally makes it a unique risk
Bengelsdorf et al, 2007 (Harold, 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; Fred McGoldrick, served in the Department of Energy and State Department working on Nonproliferation; Michael Shwartz, 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”, American Council on Global Nuclear Competitiveness, May, http://www.nuclearcompetitiveness.org/images/COUNCIL_WHITE_PAPER_Final.pdf)

The international nonproliferation regime has proved largely effective in limiting the spread of nuclear weapons
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nuclear power and the benefits that it can provide in the coming decades.
Decline of the US nuclear industry undermines non-proliferation safeguards
Loudermilk, Senior Energy Associate @ NDU, ’11
Micah J. Loudermilk, Senior Associate for the Energy and Environmental Security Policy program with The Institute for National Strategic Studies at The National Defense University, “In Defense of Small Reactors: A Response,” February 23rd 2011, http://csis.org/blog/defense-small-reactors-response

What we do know, however, is this: the domestic nuclear industry in
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security standpoint, but also from a mindset of preserving the nonproliferation agenda.
Proliferation risks nuclear war due to brinkmanship games- questions of deterrence miss the point.

Kroenig 12
(Matthew, assistant professor of Government at Georgetown University and a Stanton Nuclear Security Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, “The History of Proliferation Optimism:  Does It Have A Future?” Non Proliferation Policy Center, http://npolicy.org/article.php?aid=1182andtid=30#_ftn11, SEH)

First and foremost, proliferation optimists do not appear to understand contemporary deterrence theory.
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incentives to convince their adversaries that nuclear weapons could very well be used. 

And err aff – even if prolif doesn’t cause conflict 99% of the time – 1% means extinction
Knopf 2002  (Jeffrey, Department of National Security Affairs at the Naval Postgraduate School, “Recasting the proliferation optimism-pessimism debate”, Security Studies, October, Vol. 12, Issue 1)

Optimists and pessimists have increasingly sought to conform their work to standard social science procedures
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deterrence theory of optimists receives more support than the decisionmaking theory of pessimists.
SCENARIO 2 – Accidents 

Current Nuclear Renaissance risks meltdowns – NRC failures and reactor safety
Gronlund et al, 2007 (Lisbeth, co-director and senior scientist of the UCS Global Security Program; David Lochbaum, director of the nuclear safety project in the UCS Global Security Program; Edwin Lyman, senior staff scientist in the UCS Global Security Program; “Nuclear Power in a Warming World”, Union of Concerned Scientists, December, http://www.ucsusa.org/assets/documents/nuclear_power/nuclear-power-in-a-warming-world.pdf)

Safety problems remain despite a lack of serious accidents. A serious nuclear power accident
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problems so extensive that a year or more is needed to fix them.

Reactor meltdowns cause extinction
Gonçalves, 2001 (Eduardo, environmental researcher, author of the reports Broken Arrow - Greenham Common's Secret Nuclear Accident and Nuclear Guinea Pigs - British Human Radiation Experiments, published by CNL) (UK), “The Secret Nuclear War,” Ecologist, April)

But could radiation really be to blame for these deaths? Are the health costs
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, an act which requires a new word to describe it: omnicide.
Thus the plan:
The United States Federal Government should offer power purchase agreements for small modular nuclear reactors to supply power to military bases in the United States.
SOLVENCY 

Power Purchasing Agreements allow the DOD to act as a first mover jumpstarting the SMR industry
Madia, Chairman Stanford National Accelerator Lab, ’12
Dr. Madia, Chairman of the Board of Overseers and Vice President for the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory at Stanford University, Former Laboratory Director at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Former Laboratory Director at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, “SMALL MODULAR REACTORS: A POTENTIAL GAME-CHANGING TECHNOLOGY,” Stanford Energy Journal, Spring 2012, http://energyclub.stanford.edu/index.php/Journal/Small_Modular_Reactors_by_William_Madia

To determine if SMRs hold the potential for changing the game in carbon-free
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the heavy politics of nuclear waste, corporate welfare, or carbon taxes.
The DOD market is the only way to quickly get SMR’s through financial and regulatory barriers
Andres and Breetz, Security Prof @ National War College, ’11
Richard B. Andres, Professor of National Security Strategy at the National War College, Senior Fellow and Energy and Environmental Security and Policy Chair in the Center for Strategic Research, Institute for National Strategic Studies, at the National Defense University, Hanna L. Breetz, Political Science PhD Candidate at MIT, “Small Nuclear Reactors for Military Installations: Capabilities, Costs, and Technological Implications,” Strategic Forum, INSS, February 2011

Thus far, this paper has reviewed two of DOD’s most pressing energy vulnerabilities—
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leadership would likely have a profound effect on the industry’s timeline and trajectory.
Only DOD action can create widespread adoption of SMR’s which saves the domestic nuclear industry
Loudermilk, Senior Energy Associate @ NDU, ’11
Micah J. Loudermilk, Senior Associate for the Energy and Environmental Security Policy program with The Institute for National Strategic Studies at The National Defense University, “Small Nuclear Reactors and US Energy Security: Concepts, Capabilities, and Costs,” Journal of Energy Security, May 2011, http://www.ensec.org/index.php?option=com_contentandview=articleandid=314:small-nuclear-reactors-and-us-energy-security-concepts-capabilities-and-costsandcatid=116:content0411andItemid=375

Problematically, despite the immense energy security benefits that would accompany the wide-scale
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advance the technology broadly and eventually lead to their wide-scale adoption.

Domestic Nuclear industry is key to global nuclear safety leadership – NRC Influence
Domenici and Miller, 2012 (Pete, former senator and senior fellow at the Bipartisan Policy Center; Warren F, PhD in Engineering Sciences from Northwestern and recently served as assistant secretary for nuclear energy at the U.S. Department of Energy; “Maintaining U.S. Leadership in Global Nuclear Energy Markets”, Report of the Bipartisan Policy Center’s Nuclear Initiative, July, http://bipartisanpolicy.org/sites/default/files/Leadership%20in%20Nuclear%20Energy%20Markets.pdf)

Strategic Goal: Continued strong U.S. leadership in global nuclear security matters
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in domestic nuclear energy activities could erode U.S. international standing. 

Tournament:  | Round:  | Opponent:  | Judge:
ADV 1 – Warming

Nuclear renaissance now – US subsidizing the industry – but that’s not enough
Worthington 12 (David Worthington, February 9, 2012, The U.S. nuclear renaissance has begun  , Smart Planet,http://www.smartplanet.com/blog/intelligent-energy/the-us-nuclear-renaissance-has-begun/13058

There are cooling towers on the horizon in the United States. The nuclear renaissance
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1 million homes at a cost of US$14 billion, CNNreported.

Climate consensus is real and science is robust – we have the entire scientific community on our side – we indict your indictments
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

It is a standard tactic of many climate "skeptics" or "contrarians"
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people who think they are a Galileo are simply wrong. Facts matter.

Warming is real and anthropogenic and reversible if we start mitigation now.
Nuccitelli 11 (Dana Nuccitelli is an environmental scientist at a private environmental consulting firm in the Sacramento, California area. He has a Bachelor's Degree in astrophysics from the University of California at Berkeley, and a Master's Degree in physics from the University of California at Davis. He has been researching climate science, economics, and solutions as a hobby since 2006, and has contributed to Skeptical Science since September, 2010., Updated 2011, Originally Posted 9/24/2010, “The Big Picture”, http://www.skepticalscience.com/big-picture.html)

The Earth is Warming We know the planet is warming from surface temperature stations and
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mitigate climate change, and failing to do so would be exceptionally foolish.

Renewables key to solve warming long-term but bridge tech is key in the interim
Nordhaus and Shellenberger ‘12 (Ted Nordhaus, energy analyst and chairman of the Breakthrough Institute, and Michael Shellenberger, energy analyst, author and president of the Breakthrough Institute, February 27, 2012, “Beyond Cap and Trade, A New Path to Clean Energy,” Yale Environment 360, http://goo.gl/dtQf4)

A funny thing happened while environmentalists were trying and failing to cap carbon emissions in
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fossil fuels. There simply is no substitute for making clean energy cheap. 

SMRs solve warming by providing a bridge to renewable energy that solves warming
Clayton, ’10 (Mark, Staff Writer, “Nuclear power: Obama team touts mini-nukes to fight global warming”, The Christian Science Monitor, http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2010/0330/Nuclear-power-Obama-team-touts-mini-nukes-to-fight-global-warming, accessed 8-3-12)

To fight global warming, Energy Secretary Steven Chu is calling for the US to
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SMRs would be ready to 'plug and play' upon arrival," he wrote.

Warming causes extinction
.  – Terry L. Deibel, Professor of National Strategy at the National War College, 2007, Foreign Affairs Strategy: Logic for American Statecraft, p. 387-389

Finally, there is one major existential threat to American security (as well as
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States, but potentially to the continued existence of life on this planet.

ADV 2 – Nuclear Domination
Development of nuclear power increasing worldwide – Fukushima hasn’t deterred
Barber, Chief Analyst for Energy Central, 8-30
Wayne Barber, Chief of Generation for Energy Central's Generation Hub, “IAEA Report Finds Fukushima Didn't Cripple Nuclear Future,” August 30th 2012, http://www.energybiz.com/article/12/08/iaea-report-finds-fukushima-didnt-cripple-nuclear-future

Less than 18 months after the meltdown accident at Tokyo Electric Power Co.’s
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years, “although there is room for further improvement,” IAEA said.

We are losing the tech race now.  Failure to maintain nuclear leadership risks prolif, conflicts, and meltdowns – cedes nonprolif and nuclear safety to the next developer
Wallace and Williams, 2012 (Michael, Senior Advisor at the CSIS and Nuclear Energy Expert; Sarah, Program Coordinator and Research Associate for the U.S. Nuclear Energy Project at the CSIS; “Nuclear Energy in America: Preventing its Early Demise”, Center for Strategic and International Studies, Global Forecast, April 11, http://csis.org/files/publication/120417_gf_wallace_williams.pdf)

America’s nuclear energy industry is in decline. Low natural gas prices, financing hurdles
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.S. nuclear industry and take action to prevent its early demise.

An SMR lead revival of the industry restores US nuclear leadership which controls proliferation risks
Loudermilk, Senior Energy Associate @ NDU, ’11
Micah J. Loudermilk, Senior Associate for the Energy and Environmental Security Policy program with The Institute for National Strategic Studies at National Defense University, “Small Nuclear Reactors and US Energy Security: Concepts, Capabilities, and Costs,” Journal of Energy Security, May 2011, http://www.ensec.org/index.php?option=com_contentandview=articleandid=314:small-nuclear-reactors-and-us-energy-security-concepts-capabilities-and-costsandcatid=116:content0411andItemid=375

Combating proliferation with US leadership: Reactor safety itself notwithstanding, many argue that the
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reactors are mitigated and concerns over the widespread distribution of nuclear fuel allayed.

2 Internal Links – First is the Grid  

THE GRID IS AT RISK NOW AND WILL FAIL WITHIN 3 YEARS – CYBER EXPERTS AGREE
Huff 12
(Ethan A, staff writer at natural news “Hacking expert says catastrophic failure of smart energy grid within 3 year” http://usahitman.com/hcfseg/,)

For at least the past five years, the federal government has been pushing utility
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Internet, and effectively without any protection, is insanity at its finest.”

D/O/D bases are vulnerable to grid disruptions which destroys command infrastructure – only SMR’s can solve – alternatives risk cyber-attacks and terrorism
Robitaille 12 (George, Department of Army Civilian, United States Army War College, “Small Modular Reactors: The Army’s Secure Source of Energy?” 21-03-2012, Strategy Research Project)

In recent years, the U.S Department of Defense (DoD) has
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associated with building coal or natural gas fired power plants on the environment.

Second is Tech Leadership 

Tech Leadership key to Heg – our ev explains the last five centuries of global hegemons
Drezner 1 (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, proponents of globalization argue that because information and capital are mobile
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leading to a period of strife until a new hegemonic power is found.

Hegemony is key to prevent the escalation of global hotspots- retrenchment causes bickering internationally over leadership and prevents cooperation
Zbigniew K. Brzezinski (CSIS counselor and trustee and cochairs the CSIS Advisory Board. He is also the Robert E. Osgood Professor of American Foreign Policy at the School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, in Washington, D.C. He is cochair of the American Committee for Peace in the Caucasus and a member of the International Advisory Board of the Atlantic Council. He is a former chairman of the American-Ukrainian Advisory Committee. He was a member of the Policy Planning Council of the Department of State from 1966 to 1968; chairman of the Humphrey Foreign Policy Task Force in the 1968 presidential campaign; director of the Trilateral Commission from 1973 to 1976; and principal foreign policy adviser to Jimmy Carter in the 1976 presidential campaign. From 1977 to 1981, Dr. Brzezinski was national security adviser to President Jimmy Carter. In 1981, he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom for his role in the normalization of U.S.-China relations and for his contributions to the human rights and national security policies of the United States. He was also a member of the President’s Chemical Warfare Commission (1985), the National Security Council–Defense Department Commission on Integrated Long-Term Strategy (1987–1988), and the President’s Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board (1987–1989). In 1988, he was cochairman of the Bush National Security Advisory Task Force, and in 2004, he was cochairman of a Council on Foreign Relations task force that issued the report Iran: Time for a New Approach. Dr. Brzezinski received a B.A. and M.A. from McGill University (1949, 1950) and Ph.D. from Harvard University (1953). He was a member of the faculties of Columbia University (1960–1989) and Harvard University (1953–1960). Dr. Brzezinski holds honorary degrees from Georgetown University, Williams College, Fordham University, College of the Holy Cross, Alliance College, the Catholic University of Lublin, Warsaw University, and Vilnius University. He is the recipient of numerous honors and awards) February 2012 “After America” http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/01/03/after_america?page=0,0

For if America falters, the world is unlikely to be dominated by a single
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policy -- or start bracing itself for a dangerous slide into global turmoil.

No Alternatives – a collapse of U.S. hegemony would lead to an apolar world order with devastating consequences
Ferguson 4
Niall Ferguson, 2004, Senior Fellow – Stanford University’s Hoover Foundation and Herzog Professor of History – New York University’s Stern School of Business, “A World Without Power,” Foreign Policy, l/n

The defining characteristic of our age is not a shift of power upward to supranational
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powers would benefit from such a not-so-new world disorder.

No risk of their heg bad turns---US engagement and reintervention are inevitable---it’s only a question of making it effective
Kagan 11 (Robert, contributing editor to The Weekly Standard and a senior fellow in foreign policy at the Brookings Institution. "The Price of Power" Jan 24 Vol 16 No18 www.weeklystandard.com/articles/price-power_533696.html?page=3, AD: 11/5/11) jl

In theory, the United States could refrain from intervening abroad. But, in
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in the kind of international system that American power has built and defended. 

PLAN TEXT: United States Federal Government should offer power purchase agreements for small modular nuclear reactors to supply power to military bases in the United States.

SOLVENCY 

Power Purchasing Agreements allow the DOD to act as a first mover jumpstarting the SMR industry
Madia, Chairman Stanford National Accelerator Lab, ’12
Dr. Madia, Chairman of the Board of Overseers and Vice President for the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory at Stanford University, Former Laboratory Director at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Former Laboratory Director at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, “SMALL MODULAR REACTORS: A POTENTIAL GAME-CHANGING TECHNOLOGY,” Stanford Energy Journal, Spring 2012, http://energyclub.stanford.edu/index.php/Journal/Small_Modular_Reactors_by_William_Madia

Throughout the history of NPP development, plants grew in size based on classic “
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the heavy politics of nuclear waste, corporate welfare, or carbon taxes.

The DOD market is the only way to quickly get SMR’s through financial and regulatory barriers
Andres and Breetz, Security Prof @ National War College, ’11
Richard B. Andres, Professor of National Security Strategy at the National War College, Senior Fellow and Energy and Environmental Security and Policy Chair in the Center for Strategic Research, Institute for National Strategic Studies, at the National Defense University, Hanna L. Breetz, Political Science PhD Candidate at MIT, “Small Nuclear Reactors for Military Installations: Capabilities, Costs, and Technological Implications,” Strategic Forum, INSS, February 2011

Thus far, this paper has reviewed two of DOD’s most pressing energy vulnerabilities—
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leadership would likely have a profound effect on the industry’s timeline and trajectory.

Only DOD action can create widespread adoption of SMR’s which saves the domestic nuclear industry
Loudermilk, Senior Energy Associate @ NDU, ’11
Micah J. Loudermilk, Senior Associate for the Energy and Environmental Security Policy program with The Institute for National Strategic Studies at The National Defense University, “Small Nuclear Reactors and US Energy Security: Concepts, Capabilities, and Costs,” Journal of Energy Security, May 2011, http://www.ensec.org/index.php?option=com_contentandview=articleandid=314:small-nuclear-reactors-and-us-energy-security-concepts-capabilities-and-costsandcatid=116:content0411andItemid=375

Problematically, despite the immense energy security benefits that would accompany the wide-scale
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advance the technology broadly and eventually lead to their wide-scale adoption.

Domestic Nuclear industry is key to global nuclear safety leadership – NRC Influence
Domenici and Miller, 2012 (Pete, former senator and senior fellow at the Bipartisan Policy Center; Warren F, PhD in Engineering Sciences from Northwestern and recently served as assistant secretary for nuclear energy at the U.S. Department of Energy; “Maintaining U.S. Leadership in Global Nuclear Energy Markets”, Report of the Bipartisan Policy Center’s Nuclear Initiative, July, http://bipartisanpolicy.org/sites/default/files/Leadership%20in%20Nuclear%20Energy%20Markets.pdf)

Strategic Goal: Continued strong U.S. leadership in global nuclear security matters
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in domestic nuclear energy activities could erode U.S. international standing. 

Meltdowns cause extinction
Lendman 11
Research Associate of the Centre for Research on Globalization (Stephen, 03/ 13, “Nuclear Meltdown in Japan,” http://www.thepeoplesvoice.org/TPV3/Voices.php/2011/03/13/nuclear-meltdown-in-japan)

Reuters said the 1995 Kobe quake caused $100 billion in damage, up to
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entire region. "It could be, literally, an apocalyptic event.