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1AC

Plan:

The United States Federal Government should substantially increase financial support for fusion energy generation in the United States.

Development Advantage – 1AC

Contention 1 —- Fusion Development

U.S. fusion research has been gutted by a lack of federal funding

Hammond 12 (Not Jeremy, Bill, Columnist and Editorial Writer – New York Daily News, "Don’t Let the Sun Set on Fusion", New York Daily News, 4-3, http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/sun-set-fusion-article-1.1054771)

President Obama has touted … %24150 million and growing.

Increased funding is key to U.S. fusion commercialization —- it’s feasible and delivers huge energy

Burnett 12 (Burke, Executive Secretary – Pacific Science Association, Executive Director – Indo-Pacific Conservation Alliance, and MA in International Relations – Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, "CBS News Segment On Potentially Game-Changing Fusion Research", EnterSpace, 4-1, http://enterspace.typepad.com/blog/2012/04/fusion-research-at-nif.html-http://enterspace.typepad.com/blog/2012/04/fusion-research-at-nif.html)

In terms of physics, … budget games moot.

Scientific capability exists. Money is the outstanding variable.

Prager 9 (Dr. Stewart C., Director – Princeton University Plasma Physics Laboratory, "The Next Generation of Fusion Energy Research", Hearing before the House Subcommittee on Energy and Environment, 10-29, http://fire.pppl.gov/house_fusion_hearing_2010.pdf)

Second, Congressman … to achieve this milestone.

Targeting energy production and spending beyond ITER spurs quick development

Prager 11 (Stewart, Director – U.S. Department of Energy’s Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory and Professor of Astrophysical Sciences – Princeton University, "Why Fusion Energy Could Enhance Future Energy Independence", The Daily Energy Report, August, http://www.dailyenergyreport.com/2011/08/why-fusion-energy-could-enhance-future-energy-independence/)

Ben Lack: Are there other … fusion as quickly as possible.

That’s key to global energy leadership

Freed 9 (Josh, Vice President – Third Way Clean Energy Program, and Avi Zevin, Policy Advisor – Third Way, and Jesse Jenkins, Associate Director – Breakthrough Institute, "Jumpstarting a Clean Energy Revolution with a National Institutes of Energy", September, http://thebreakthrough.org/blog/Jumpstarting_Clean_Energy_Sept_09.pdf)

When the United States … of the next century.16

Energy leadership secures U.S. primacy and leverages great power rivals

Klarevas 9 (Louis, Professor at the Center for Global Affairs – New York University, "Securing American Primacy While Tackling Climate Change: Toward a National Strategy of Greengemony-http://www.huffingtonpost.com/louis-klarevas/securing-american-primacy_b_393223.html", Huffington Post, 12-15, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/louis-klarevas/securing-american-primacy_b_393223.html)

By not addressing … keep potential foes in check.

Extinction

Brzezinski 12 (Zbigniew, Professor of American Foreign Policy at the School of Advanced International Studies – Johns Hopkins University, Counselor – CSIS and Trustee and Co-Chair – CSIS Advisory Board, Former National Security Advisor – Carter, "After America", Foreign Policy, January / February, http://www.foreignpolicy.com/artic-http://www.foreignpolicy.com/artic les/2012/01/03/after_america?page=full)

For if America falters, … slide into global turmoil.

Global fusion’s inevitable —- but without the U.S., it’ll be too slow

Prager 11 (Stewart, Director – U.S. Department of Energy’s Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory and Professor of Astrophysical Sciences – Princeton University, "Perspective On: The future of Fusion", 5-12, http://www.pppl.gov/polPressReleases.cfm?doc_id=772)

Why should the U.S. … in this problem.

Only fusion can provide the massive boost in energy generation necessary for survival

Lee 10 (Dr. Lee Sing, Adjunct Professor – INTI International University, and Dr. Saw Sor Heoh, Director – Centre for Plasma Research and Ph.D. in Plasma Physics – University of Malaysia, "Nuclear Fusion Energy- The Dawning of the Fusion Age", http://www.plasmafocus.net/IPFS/2011papers/0%202011%20Papers.htm-http://www.plasmafocus.net/IPFS/2011papers/0 2011 Papers.htm) *Gender Edited

6. Conclusion
The world moves … would be not a moment too soon. 

Major funding immediately changes global perceptions of resource shortages and averts conflict

CN 12 (Challenge Network – International Partnership of Expert Individuals, Most of Whom Have Occupied Senior Planning or Management Roles in Commerce and the Public Sector, "Nuclear Fusion: Penurious Promise", The Challenge Network, http://www.chforum.org/scenario2012/paper-1-4.shtml)

The section on technical … technical challenge.

Fusion Leadership – 1AC

Contention 2 —- Fusion Leadership

Fusion spending is the litmus test of U.S. energy leadership

Prager 11 (Stewart, Director – Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory and Professor of Astrophysical Sciences –  Princeton University, "How Seawater Can Power the World", New York Times, 7-10, http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/11/opinion/11Prager.html?_r=1%26ref=opinion)

DEBATE about … engineers stand ready to help.

Plan sends a huge signal of commitment to fusion

Kammen 7 (Daniel, Professor in Public Policy Specializing in Energy and Resources – University of California, Berkeley, and Gregory F. Nemet, Professor of Public Policy – University of California, Berkeley, "Energy Myth Eleven – Energy R%26D Investment Takes Decades To Reach The Market", Energy and American Society – Thirteen Myths, Ed. Sovacool and Brown, p. 304-305)

We also examined … of the innovation process.

Strong domestic fusion’s critical to an international lead role on next-gen energy

Kerry 12 (Senator John F., "Letter on Friday, March 2 to the Senate Appropriators to Support Fusion at the %24450 M Level", 3-2, http://www.pppl.gov/pdf/Kerry-JohnF.letter.pdf)

I am writing you today … energy research.

Otherwise, multiple countries will pass the U.S., undermining fusion leadership

Holt 12 (Rush, United States Representative, et al., "3-FY13 Office of Fusion Energy Sciences Letter to House Appropriations Energy %26 Water Subcommittee", 3-16, http://www.fusionfuture.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/OFES_Fusion_FY13_SIGNED_3_2012_dear_colleague.pdf)

The Administration’s FY … process moves forward.

That ruins a unique model for deep international collaboration

Holdren 95 (John P., Professor of Energy – University of California, Berkeley, et al., "The U.S. Program of Fusion Energy Research and Development", Report of the Fusion Review Panel – The President’s Committee of Advisors on Science and Technology, July, http://science.energy.gov/~~/media/fes/fesac/pdf/1990-99/1995_jul.pdf)

The principal objective …. nations to pay for it.

The impact is failed states, terrorism, and disease

Fedoroff 8 (Dr. Nina, Science and Technology Adviser to the Secretary of State and the Administrator of USAID, "Making Science Diplomacy More Effective", Testimony before the House Science Subcommittee on Research and Science Education, 4-2, http://2001-2009.state.gov/g/stas/2008/105286.htm)

Chairman Baird, Ranking … partnerships, and create sustainability.

Failed states cause nuclear war

TI 7 (Transnational Institute, Africa Studies Centre Report, "Failed and Collapsed States in the International System", April, http://www.tni.org/sites/www.tni.org/archives/reports/failedstates.pdf)

In the malign scenario of global … be faced with direct attacks on their national security.

Disease causes extinction

Keating 9 (Joshua, Web Editor – Foreign Policy Magazine, "The End of the World", Foreign Policy, 11-13, http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2009/11/13/the_end_of_the_world?page=full)

How it could happen: Throughout … a new and just as troubling complication.

U.S. leadership shapes global norms of fusion adoption —- stops weaponization

Holdren 95 (John P., Professor of Energy – University of California, Berkeley, et al., "The U.S. Program of Fusion Energy Research and Development", Report of the Fusion Review Panel – The President’s Committee of Advisors on Science and Technology, July, http://science.energy.gov/~~/media/fes/fesac/pdf/1990-99/1995_jul.pdf)

The sense of complacency … of our report will read that one, too.

Otherwise, fusion weaponization’s inevitable —- shatters the nuclear firebreak

Makhijani 98 (Arjun, President – Institute for Energy and Environmental Research, "Statement Before the National Press Club", 7-15, http://ieer.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/1998/07/dtq-statement-arjun.pdf)

We must prevent these …lack of fall-out.

Extinction

Anderson 6 – Philip W. Anderson, Joseph Henry Professor of Physics, Princeton University, et al, 2006, Nuclear Option Off the Table, http://physics.ucsd.edu /petition/DCflyer.pdf

There are no sharp … voices heard on this matter.

Contention Three is Waste:

Fusion solves fission waste and Yucca storage. Even if full-fusion is distant, fusion neutron harnessing isn’t.

UT’9 
(This is a Multi-Disciplinary release from the University of Texas – it internally quotes Physics Professors, Mechanical Engineers, and Fusion Experts. "Nuclear Fusion-Fission Hybrid Could Destroy Nuclear Waste and Contribute to Carbon-Free Energy Future", 1-27, This article also appears in This article also appears in Science Daily on Jan 29^th – both web addresses are included: http://www.utexas.edu/news/2009/01/27/nuclear_hybrid/-http://www.utexas.edu/news/2009/01/27/nuclear_hybrid/; http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090127131654.htm)
"We have created a way … in the near term.

Yucca storage harms billions. Our author’s qual’d and beats "exaggeration" accusations.

Comarow ’1
(David Comarow has a multi-disciplinary background and is tough to pigeon-hole as someone that could logically be from a singular epistemological school of thought. David is a former faculty member of the College of Southern Nevada, where he established the Solar Energy Technology Training Program and the Center for Appropriate Technology in 1976. He holds a BS in biology from State University of New York, Albany, an MS in Urban Studies from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and a JD from California Western School of Law, He is also an Advisory Board Member of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society (SSCS) – a international non-profit, marine wildlife conservation organization. "Yucca Mountain: Time to Think the Unthinkable", Testimony presented at US Department of Energy Public Hearing, 12-8, http://www.nuclearfiles.org/menu/key-issues/nuclear-energy/issues/yucca-mountain/yucca-mountain-testimony-comarow_2001-12-08.htm)
None of that is impossible, and therefore none of that is unthinkable. We are not talking about the short-term or even long-term economic prosperity of Las Vegas. We are talking about nothing … death of billions.

And, on-site storage bad – already harms people now.

Ross ’11
Sherwood Ross is a Miami-based consultant and columnist. He has reported for the Chicago Daily News, regularly writes for Reuters, and has worked as a columnist for wire services. Global Research, November 10, 2011 – http://www.globalresearch.ca/fukushima-japan-s-second-nuclear-disaster/?print=1
The thousands … effectively told.

Yes, Yucca accident – quakes, human error or water.

Comarow ’1
(David Comarow has a multi-disciplinary background and is tough to pigeon-hole as someone that could logically be from a singular epistemological school of thought. David is a former faculty member of the College of Southern Nevada, where he established the Solar Energy Technology Training Program and the Center for Appropriate Technology in 1976. He holds a BS in biology from State University of New York, Albany, an MS in Urban Studies from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and a JD from California Western School of Law, He is also an Advisory Board Member of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society (SSCS) – a international non-profit, marine wildlife conservation organization. "Yucca Mountain: Time to Think the Unthinkable", Testimony presented at US Department of Energy Public Hearing, 12-8, http://www.nuclearfiles.org/menu/key-issues/nuclear-energy/issues/yucca-mountain/yucca-mountain-testimony-comarow_2001-12-08.htm)
In several hundred thousand … error mankind ever made. 

The Squo and K alts must explain how they’ll get rid of current waste. It’s dangerous, goes to sea, and there’s few options.

Cohen ’12
Dr. Martin Cohen has a multi-disciplinary background and is tough to pigeon-hole as someone that could logically be from a singular epistemological school of thought. He studied philosophy and social science at Sussex University. He obtained a teaching qualification at Keele University and his PhD in philosophy of education from the University of Exeter. After research posts at universities in Britain and Australia, Cohen moved to France to concentrate on journalism. He is active in several environmental causes. Cohen has been a frequent contributor and reviewer for the New Statesman (on environmental issues) and the Guardian (London) (on the role of computers in education). He is also co-author of the published book The Doomsday Machine: the high price of nuclear energy. This article was written for Infowars.com on June 15, 2012, and was re-posted at: http://www.undergroundsunshine.com/article-of-nuclear-waste/
The history of ’fly-tipping’ nuclear … USA perfectly reveals.