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Tournament: UMKC | Round: 6 | Opponent: Trinity BG | Judge: DZ
Plan: The United States Federal Government should provide substantial market-fixed production cost incentives for domestic energy production of small modular nuclear reactors.

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DOD SMR- PPA mechanism

Grid adv- China/Taiwan and readiness

SMR markets adv- Same as UMKC 1AC

open source below

Tournament: Harvard | Round: 4 | Opponent: OU CL | Judge: Bankey
attached below

Tournament: Wake | Round: 1 | Opponent: Samford AS | Judge: Struth
New plan: The United States Federal Government should offer substantial competitive power purchase agreements for electricity from small modular nuclear reactors for military installations in the United States.

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*Commercial SMRs Aff

Plan: The United States Federal Government should provide substantial market-fixed production cost incentives for domestic energy production of small modular nuclear reactors.

Plan: The United States Federal Government should provide substantial market-fixed production cost incentives for domestic energy production of light-water small modular nuclear reactors.

SMR Markets advantage:
- Proliferation
- Terrorism

Econ advantage:
- Manufacturing/Economy
- Competitiveness/Heg

*DOD SMRs Aff

Plan: The United States Federal Government should offer substantial competitive power purchase agreements for electricity from small modular nuclear reactors for military installations in the United States.

Plan: The United States Federal Government should offer substantial competitive power purchase agreements for electricity from small modular nuclear reactors on military installations in the United States.

SMR Markets advantage- General:
- Proliferation
- Terrorism

SMR Markets advantage- Russia:
- Piracy (trade)
- Piracy (terror)
- Russia Latin America influence (Blank)
- Latin America stability

Grid advantage- China:
- Power projection
- Taiwan war
- Lashout

Grid advantage- Afghanistan:
- Drones
- Reachback support
- Pakistan collapse
- Afghanistan escalation
- Fourth-genration warfare 

*PRISM SMRs Aff

Plan: The United States Federal Government should provide substantial market-fixed production cost incentives for domestic energy production of small modular nuclear reactors of the PRISM design.

- Tech leadership
- Heg
- Global electricity
- Warming

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Round 4: Vs. Harvard DT, with Johnathan Paul as the Judge.
1AC Advantages: Shale gas advantage with Russia/EU relations (crime/aids), US/EU partnerships (laundry list), RU modernization = nuke war; Steel advantage with navy solves GPW and naval decline causes lots of them
Plan/Advocacy: The United States Federal Government should substantially reduce restrictions on natural gas production in the Environmental Protection Agency’s New Source Performance Standards and National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants Reviews.
2AC Strat:
1AR:
2AR Offense: Went for steel advantage against IFR CP with warming net benefit.

Open source forthcoming.
Round 6: Vs. Texas GM, with Jarrod Atchison as the Judge.
1AC Advantages:
Plan/Advocacy:
2AC Strat:
1AR:
2AR Offense:
Round 7: Vs. Wake HQ, with J.V. Reed as the Judge.
1AC Advantages: Racism/Secrecy
Plan/Advocacy:Thus, we advocate: USFG secrecy restrictions on domestic nuclear energy production should be reduced.
2AC Strat:Perms on CPs and K, we meet topicality and aspec, case extension of racism and secrecy, Deontology turn on Terrorism DA
1AR:Topicality, case, turn on da, defense
2AR Offense:Case(Racism), Turn on DA

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***1AC***

Secrecy pervades the history of nuclear development- It is used by the nuclear industry and NRC to cloak radioactive environmental racism- Plants are intentionally sited in poor, black communities and the truth about devastating health and environmental effects is deemed “restricted data”

Dupre 2011 (Deborah Dupre, former consultant for the United Nations, holds American and Australian science and education graduate degrees and has thirty years human rights, environmental and peace activism experience, September 14, 2011, “Obama's dirtiest secret exposed: Plutonium 'Bomb Plant,' 'Green future',” Examiner, http://www.examiner.com/article/obama-s-dirtiest-secret-exposed-plutonium-bomb-plant-green-future)

Nuclear Racism "In the 1940s, during the Manhattan Project, when the enormous

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President Obama are leading us to what they call the 'nuclear renaissance.'

This renders black communities disposable- Despite staggering rates of cancer and other radiation-related health effects DOE withholds information from and refuses to listen to communities around reactor sites- meanwhile, NRC keeps licensing more reactors

Dixon 2012 (Bruce A. Dixon, managing editor of Black Agenda Report, “Environmental racism: Is nuclear plant causing cancer for poor black residents of Shell Bluff, Ga.?,” The Grio, http://thegrio.com/2012/01/25/nuclear-plants-and-cancer-epidemics-in-a-poor-black-georgia-town-environmental-racism-in-the-21st-ce/)

Environmental racism occurs when hazardous industries and facilities are placed in and near poor,

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will not benefit Georgia residents, because it will be sold to Florida.

Public branding of nuclear energy as “safe” and “clean” obfuscates these impacts and leads to the erasure of minorities from public discourse on nuclear power- the aff is a prerequisite to any responsible deliberation about an increase in nuke energy production

Sharpe 2008 (Virginia A. Sharpe, teaches environmental philosophy and clinical ethics at Georgetown University and is on the staff of the National Center for Ethics in Health Care at the Veterans Health Administration, July-August 2008, “’Clean’ Nuclear Energy? Global Warming, Public Health, and Justice,” Hastings Center Report, Muse)

In May of this year, the governor of Maryland, the state where I

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are certainly not clean now. Will they be cleaner in the future?

Blacks’ exclusion from information about nuclear safety mirrors the construction of the white body politic- blacks are spatially and politically removed from the macro-body as “black trash” – discourses about environmental concerns fail unless there areforegrounded in intercorporeality

Mills 2001 (Charles W. Mills, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Illinois, Chicago, 2001, “Black Trash,” in Faces of Environmental Racism: Confronting Issues of Global Justice, 2nd edition, p. 73)

Race, then, is the basic organizing spatial principle of the extended body of

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ever- threatening dark space—evil, shitty, savage, subproletananized.

On the collective white macro-body, these spaces are literally blots on the

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the racialized refuse, the black trash, of the white body politic.

The politics of disposability ensures perpetual violence and renders whole populations valueless – we should reject the figure of the antipublic intellectual

Giroux 2010 (Henry Giroux, Global TV Network Chair Professorship at McMaster University in the English and Cultural Studies Department, September 28, 2010, “Memories of Hope in the Age of Disposability,” Truthout, http://archive.truthout.org/memories-hope-age-disposability63631)

Welcome to the new era of disposability in which market-driven values peddle policies

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about visions of the good society is now consdered a waste of time.

Status quo policymaking reflects the logic of disposability- Vague apocalyptic threats are constructed as a ruse to distract from real issues of social justice – this is disruptive to the potential for deliberation

Giroux 2009 (Henry Giroux, Waterbury Chair of Secondary Education at Pennsylvania State University, “Zombie Politics and Other Late Modern Monstrosities in the Age of Disposability,” 17 November 2009, Truthout, http://www.truthout.org/111709Giroux)

At present,Americans are fascinated by a particular kind of monstrosity, by vampires

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time, with no hope of once again wreaking their destruction upon society.

Thus, we advocate: United States Federal Government secrecy restrictions on domestic nuclear energy production should be reduced.

Removing NRC secrecy restrictions solves by exposing the dirty laundry of nuclear power- --Enables public activism against NRC dangers--this enables the possibility of activism

Mangano 2012 (Joseph Mangano, PhD and executive director of the Radiation and Public Health Project, “Mad Science: The Nuclear Power Experiment,” 2012, google books)

The mention of the Santa Susana experience brings up a corollary issue with nuclear power

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completely disappeared- and nuclear power’s negative side has been more thoroughly revealed.

Traditional forms of policymaking cannot effectively incorporate racial equity into its rationality- Policy should reflect the demands of residents- The status quo is obsessed with political procedural --minutea --minutae trades off with a community situated view of risk

Laituri and Kirby 1994 (Melina Laituri, professor of social sciences at ASU, and Andrew Kirby, associate dean for academic affairs at Auckland, “Finding Fairness in America’s Cities? The Search for Environmental Equity in Everyday Life,” Journal of Social Issues, volume 50, number 3, JSTOR)

We have argued that any consideration of green justice cannot be limited solely to wildemess

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poor quality of life are to be rectified and avoided in the future.

This form of secrecy precludes democratic participation and productive political discourse – it replicates the worst of path dependence

Gowder 2006 (Paul Gowder, J.D., Harvard Law School, 2006, “Secrecy as Mystification of Power: Meaning and Ethics in the Security State,” I/S: A JOURNAL OF LAW AND POLICY, http://pangea-icic.ifai.org.mx/National%20Security/secrecy%20as%20mystification%20of%20power.pdf)

Secrecy defeats that claim to legitimacy too once we introduce time into the equation.

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serving them.66 This is surely inconsistent with our notions of democracy.

Maintaining the secrecy of nuclear power’s dangers risks global annihilation- Radiation threatens future generations and undermines necessary environmental systems

Patterson 2011 (Jeffrey Patterson, professor emeritus in the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, April 26, 2011, “Radiation exposure and the power of zero,” Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, http://www.thebulletin.org/web-edition/op-eds/radiation-exposure-and-the-power-of-zero)

The ongoing nuclear power plant disaster in Japan has once again pushed the topic of

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health impacts on unsuspecting future generations who have no choice in this matter?

***2AC***

2AC T Restriction ON Production

We meet: Secrecy restrictions are on energy production

Cinquegrana 1984 (Americo R. Cinquegrana, Deputy Counsel to the Attorney General for Intelligence Policy, U.S. Department of Justice, and John Michael Shepherd, Special Assistant to the Assistant Attorney General, Office of Legal Policy, U.S. Department of Justice, August 1, 1984, “The Current Legal Basis for Controls on the ‘Export’ of Technical Information,” Boston College International and Comparative Law Review, http://lawdigitalcommons.bc.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1433andcontext=iclr)

Under the terms of the Atomic Energy Act, all information, whether "research

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, even when the information has been developed entirely in the private sector.

Information must be secret to get a NRC license- We are a licensing aff

CCAM 2001 (CONNECTICUT COALITION AGAINST MILLSTONE AND LONG ISLAND COALITION AGAINST MILLSTONE, November 1, 2001, “MOTION TO REOPEN THE RECORD¶ AND REQUEST FOR ADMISSION OF LATE-FILED ENVIRONMENTAL CONTENTION,” letter to the NRC, http://pbadupws.nrc.gov/docs/ML0131/ML013190390.pdf)

(IX-2) Before considering the potential need to limit the distribution of

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secrecy. Second, secrecy about civil nuclear facilities is incompatible with democracy.

A license is THE restriction on nuclear production- Conditions restrict the scope of the license

NRC 2005 Nuclear Regulatory Commission, "Backgrounder on Nuclear Power Plant Licensing Process," July, http:~/~/www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/fact-sheets/html

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is responsible for licensing and regulating the operation

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health and safety, the common defense and security, and the environment.

“Federal Government” can mean any sub-agency

Words and Phrases: Permanent  Edition, 2004, vol 16a, p.42

N.D.Ga. 1986. Action against the Postal Service, although

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635 F.Supp. 190.—Jury 12(1.2).

Err aff, secrecy obscures any means of knowing whether or not secrecy directly restricts production- broad application of Restricted Data standard- aff is a prerequisite to meeting their burden to clearly prove a violation

Commission on Protecting and Reducing Government Secrecy 1997 (Congressional Commission Report,“Chapter 2: Rethinking Classification: Better Protection and Greater Openness,” http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/GPO-CDOC-105sdoc2/pdf/GPO-CDOC-105sdoc2-7.pdf

The Atomic Energy Act of 1954 (AEA), as amended, authorizes an entirely

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also has implications for oversight of DoE classification practices, as discussed below.

Counterinterpretation: “On” indicates the subject of restrictions- Energy production is the subject of the restriction

Webster 2012 (Merriam-Webster Dictionary, http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/on)

d —used as a function word to indicate the subject of study, discussion, or considerationa book on insectsreflect on that a momentagree on price

“Restriction” means limitation

Words and Phrases: Perm  Edition, 2002, vol 36A, p412

Okla. 1922. Supplemental Creek Agreement of June 30, 1902, c.

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208 P. 803, 87 Okla. 19, 1922 OK 243.

Reasonability- avoids race to the bottom-specific evidence

MME 2012(Mexican Ministry of Economy, March 2012, “Other Appellant Submission of Mexico,” UNITED STATES – CERTAIN COUNTRY OF ORIGIN LABELLING REQUIREMENTS, http://www.economia.gob.mx/files/comunidad_negocios/comercio_exterior/solucion_controversias/EDO.EDO/ORGANIZACION%20MUNDIAL%20DE%20COMERCIO/Participaci%C3%B3n%20de%20M%C3%A9xico%20como%20reclamante/EU_COOL/20COMUNICACIONDELOTROAPELANTEDEMEXICO.pdf)

52. The ordinary meaning of “restrictive” is “imposing restrictions”63

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complaining party claiming the existence of a restriction need not prove actual tradeeffects.

Aspek

Clarifies stasis; active distributes it, link turning their precision arguments – just like agent counterplans distract from subject of energy

Michel Hupet Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Louvain, Belgium

and Brigitte Le Bouedec Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Angers, France

 (1975): Definiteness and voice in the interpretation of active and passive sentences, Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology,

27:2, 323-330 http:~/~/dx.doi.org/10.1080/14640747508400491url:http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14640747508400491__

Since the main structural difference between the active and the passive voice is in the

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the active, thus confirming the hypothesis of the active being presuppositionally neutral.

Passive voice improves policy – legitimacy and consistency – this is an internal link turn to their standards

Anita S. Krishnakumaf Associate Professor, St. John's University School of Law 2011Brooklyn Law Review Passive-Voice References in Statutory Interpretation-

This essay examines these questions through the lens of a little-noticed grammar reference

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the statute at issue but also constructs consistency of meaning across federal statutes.

Case

a) Informed consent- People have a right to know what they’re being exposed to- Ending secrecy results in a responsible decision to use or not use nuke energy- Aff is a study CP

Mangano 2012 (Joseph Mangano, PhD and executive director of the Radiation and Public Health Project, “Mad Science: The Nuclear Power Experiment,” 2012, google books)

At the core of the triumph of forces opposed to nuclear power is an illustration

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“clean” slogans, stands as an anomaly in a democratic society.

A2 Zoning Etc. CP

Perm do both- the CP has no means of resolving secrecy that prevents people that live by existing reactors that have already been sited and zoned- can’t solve any of our secrecy bad offense and which is also our internal link to our racism/disposability impacts

Exposing NRC secrets is a prerequisite- can’t trust them

DeWalt 2011 (Dan DeWalt, political activist and founder of Patriotic Response to Renegade Government, an organization based on the free association of like minded souls, July 27, 2011, “Why Any Thinking Person Should Question the NRC,” http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/mike-friends-blog/why-any-thinking-person)

The Vermont legislature, when considering whether or not to allow Vermont Yankee to operate

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unsubstantiated statements telling us not to worry, its time to start worrying.

Their Barkas evidence is about nuke weapons secrecy which the plan does not impact

A2 Exports DA

US nuke power is coming now

Silverstein 2012 (Ken Silverstein, contributor at Forbes, May 7, 2012, “Nuclear Energy Won’t Die,” http://www.forbes.com/sites/kensilverstein/2012/05/07/nuclear-energy-wont-die/)

Some thought that nuclear energy may get buried after the Japanese Fukushima deluge. But

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among energy insiders here is that it would lead to more such construction.

50 countries are pursuing nuclear energy

Hussain 2012 (Yadullah Hussain, March 9, 2012, “50 countries developing nuclear energy plans: report,” Financial Post, http://business.financialpost.com/2012/03/09/50-countries-developing-nuclear-energy-plans-report/)

The nuclear-energy industry is recovering from the Fukushima nuclear power plant debacle,

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the USA 7% (23), and Ukraine 6% (20).

Zero link- Their evidence is about weapons secrets not energy secrets- DOE does both

Holdren and Weeks 2000 (John P. Holdren, Former Director and Faculty Chair, Science, Technology and Public Policy Program, Jennifer Weeks, Former Executive Director and Research Associate, Project on Managing the Atom/Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program, 1997-2001, “Energy's Secrets: Finding the Balance”, Journal Article, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, volume 56, issue 2, pages 20-21,76-79

But the openness trend has been reversed. In response to possible leaks or theft

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was symptomatic of a casual attitude toward protecting critical nuclear-weapons information.

2AC Secret Committee CP

Aff is a prerequisite- NRC secrecy precludes political decisionmaking- Secrecy makes bad policymaking inevitable- 1AC is --an impact--an internal link turn to fairness and effective deliberation, the values implied in their argument

Ellington 2004 (Thomas Coke Ellington, PhD Philosophy 2004 University of Maryland, “OFFICIAL SECRECY: SELF, STATE AND SOCIETY,” doctoral dissertation, http://drum.lib.umd.edu/bitstream/1903/1728/1/umi-umd-1699.pdf)

Ignoring official secrecy, however, is no longer an option. To do so

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take into account the destructive effect official secrecy has on the democratic project.

Secrecy makes democratic deliberation impossible- we control uniqueness- people suffering as a result of nuclear secrecy CANNOT engage the policymaking process until secrecy is removed

Gowder 2006 (Paul Gowder, J.D., Harvard Law School, 2006, “Secrecy as Mystification of Power: Meaning and Ethics in the Security State,” I/S: A JOURNAL OF LAW AND POLICY, http://pangea-icic.ifai.org.mx/National%20Security/secrecy%20as%20mystification%20of%20power.pdf)

The book is not yet closed on secrecy, for both the person who holds

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when it refuses to disclose how it determines who those potential terrorists are.

Their cost-benefit calculation reinforces whiteness through its rationalization of the displacement of all the “costs” onto black communities

Wenz 2001 (Peter S. Wenz, professor of philosophy and legal studies at Sangamon State University and Adjunct Professor of Medical Humanities at SIU Med, in Faces of Environmental Racism: Confronting Issues of Global Justice, page 63-67)

Cost-Benefit Analysis (CBA)¶ CBA is an economist’s version of utilitarianism,

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are inadequate principles and methodologies to guide the just distribution of toxic wastes.

2AC 2^ND DA

Not an existential threat – no overreaction

John Mueller (Woody Hayes Chair of National Security Studies, Mershon Center, and is professor of Political Science, at Ohio State University) 2010 “Atomic Obsession: Nuclear Alarmism from Hiroshima to Al Qaeda” p. 232

From this perspective, then, rhetorical declamations insisting that terrorism poses an existential threat

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inspiration and encouragement they receive from the unintentional cheerleaders among their distant enemies.

Their securitization replaces valuation with calculation, causing unending cycles of violence

Dillon 1996 Michael, professor Politics and International Relations at the University of Lancaster, The Politics of Security,pp. 20-22

The reduction of metaphysics, and so also of political understanding, to calculation,

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nothing?—for with its closure we are challenged to rethink the question.

2AC Capitalism

Only the perm solves- Left colorblindness dooms the alt and guarantees continued violence against people of color

Olson 2010 (Joel Olson, Associate Professor in the Department of Politics and International Affairs at Northern Arizona University and member of the Arizona chapter of Bring the Ruckus, “Whiteness and the 99%,” End of Capitalism, http://endofcapitalism.com/2012/01/18/whiteness-and-the-99/)

Occupy Wall Street and the hundreds of occupations it has sparked nationwide are among the

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rather than their own, that’s not the 99%. That’s white democracy.

Racism predates capitalism and the alt cannot solve the aff

Rojek 1999 (Chris Rojek, Professor of Sociology and Culture¶ Sociology and Communications at Brunel University in London, “Decentring Leisure: Rethinking Leisure Theory,” gbooks)

References to race and racism in the work on leisure of cultural studies writers has

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difficulties inattempting to comprehend and explain the expression and consequences of racism.'

Solving secrecy is a prerequisite to anticapitalism, otherwise capitalist elites crush the alt- Obviously, people near nuclear plants can’t join the revolution because they don’t have knowledge of their situation and the capitalists/corporations repsonsible

Govender 2010 (Pregs Govender, Deputy Chair of the South African Human Rights commission, “Secrecy is a Weapon of Oppression,” Amandla Magazine, http://amandlapublishers.co.za/special-features/debating-media-freedom/451-secrecy-is-a-weapon-of-oppression)

"What happens when the poor lose faith in democratic institutions - when their requests

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educational and media institutions as well as homes and families.¶ Secrecy enabled Apartheid

to create a highly militarised, authoritarian, unjust and unequal society. Those who

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and that is required for the exercise or protection of any rights.’

***1AR***

T

Reasonability- avoids race to the bottom-specific evidence

MME 2012(Mexican Ministry of Economy, March 2012, “Other Appellant Submission of Mexico,” UNITED STATES – CERTAIN COUNTRY OF ORIGIN LABELLING REQUIREMENTS, http://www.economia.gob.mx/files/comunidad_negocios/comercio_exterior/solucion_controversias/EDO.EDO/ORGANIZACION%20MUNDIAL%20DE%20COMERCIO/Participaci%C3%B3n%20de%20M%C3%A9xico%20como%20reclamante/EU_COOL/20COMUNICACIONDELOTROAPELANTEDEMEXICO.pdf)

52. The ordinary meaning of “restrictive” is “imposing restrictions”63

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complaining party claiming the existence of a restriction need not prove actual tradeeffects.

Precision: restrictions CANNOT be solely prohibitions

WTO 2009 (WTO Panels, April 27, 2009, “COLOMBIA – INDICATIVE PRICES AND RESTRICTIONS ON PORTS OF ENTRY,” http://www.worldtradelaw.net/reports/wtopanels/colombia-portsofentry(panel).pdf)

7.233 WTO panels have interpreted the term "restriction" in Article XI

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increased transaction costs and would create uncertainties which could affect investment plans."464

CP

Utilitarianism fails in this instance because it assumes you know what the secret is

Gowder 2006 (Paul Gowder, J.D., Harvard Law School, 2006, “Secrecy as Mystification of Power: Meaning and Ethics in the Security State,” I/S: A JOURNAL OF LAW AND POLICY, http://pangea-icic.ifai.org.mx/National%20Security/secrecy%20as%20mystification%20of%20power.pdf)

The academic (particularly legal academic) and public discourse on government secrecy is overwhelmingly

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the rush to policies driven by in- group identification and mortality salience.

Terror DA

Any move for retaliation is posturing – Obama wont follow through

Michael Crowley (Senior Editor the New Republic) January 2010 “Obama and Nuclear Deterrence”, http://www.tnr.com/node/72263

The Los Angeles Times ran an important story yesterday about the Obama administration's Nuclear Posture

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or any president, for that matter--would go through with it.

Tournament: NDT | Round: 7 | Opponent: West GA DF | Judge: Kurr, Watts, Weil

1AC

Plan

Plan: The United States Federal Government should substantially reduce restrictions on nuclear energy production that prevent development and deployment of energy production from small modular reactors of the Power Reactor Innovative Small Modular design.

1AC PRISM- Warming adv

Expansion of nuclear power to combat anthropogenic warming is an ethical imperative

Baker 2012 (Suzy Baker, Executive Director of PopAtomic Studios, the Nuclear Literacy Project, July 25, 2012, "Climate Change and Nuclear Energy: We Need to Talk," ansnuclearcafe.org/2012/07/25/climate-change-and-nuclear-energy-we-need-to-talk/)
Ocean Acidification¶ While I was making artistic monuments to single celled organisms in the
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stronger with the no-longer-silent climate change harbingers in it.

Global SMR diffusion reverses global warming- low-carbon development in emerging nations is vital

Shellenberger et al 2012 (Michael Shellenberger, President of the Breakthrough Institute, Ted Nordhaus, Chairman of the Breakthrough Instittue, Jessica Lovering, Policy Analyst, Energy and Climate Program at the Breakthrough Institute, September 11, 2012, "Why We Need Radical Innovation to Make New Nuclear Energy Cheap," http://thebreakthrough.org/index.php/programs/energy-and-climate/new-nukes/)
To move the needle on nuclear energy to the point that it might actually be
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than developing the nuclear technologies we will need to get that job done.

SMRs dramatically expand energy access in emerging nations

Kessides and Kuznetsov 2012 (Ioannis N. Kessides, Development Research Group at The World Bank, and Vladimir Kuznetsov, consultant for The World Bank, July 2012, "Small Modular Reactors for Enhancing Energy Security in Developing Countries," Sustainability, http://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/4/8/1806/htm)
As Table 5 indicates, there is a significant diversity of SMR designs including land
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%24 1 billion—an important consideration, especially for small developing countries.

That solves quality of life and millions of deaths every year

Kumar 2012 (Supriya Kumar, Worldwatch Institute, "Electricity Access Still Insufficient in Developing Countries Lack of access to electricity results in health, environmental, and livelihood challenges," Common Dreams, https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2012/02/02-0)
Despite massive gains in global access to electricity over the last two decades, governments
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soil erosion, and black carbon emissions that contribute to global climate change.

"Soft energy" panacea is impossible- nuclear is key to prevent reversion to worse fossil fuels

Nordhaus and Shellenberger 2011 (Ted Nordhaus, chairman of the Breakthrough Instiute, and Michael Shellenberger, president of the Breakthrough Insitute, MA cultural anthropology from University of California, Santa Cruz, February 25, 2011, http://thebreakthrough.org/archive/the_long_death_of_environmenta)
Seventh, we need to acknowledge that the so-called "soft energy path
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that uses 50% more energy, not solar panels and wind farms. 

Only the aff is fast enough to prevent catastrophic warming

Rosner and Goldberg 2011 (Robert Rosner, astrophysicist and founding director of the Energy Policy Institute at Chicago, and Stephen Goldberg, Special Assistant to the Director at the Argonne National Laboratory, Energy Policy Institute at Chicago, "Small Modular Reactors – Key to Future Nuclear Power Generation in the U.S.", Technical Paper, Revision 1, November 2011)
Nuclear power occupies a unique position in the debate over global climate change as the
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analysis would be done shortly that will address the relative competitiveness of SMRs.

Global warming is an ongoing social justice issue- immediate investment in clean energy switch is the only way to reverse the impacts

NWF 2009 (National Wildlife Federation, "More Extreme Weather: Implications
for Public Health and Social Justice," http://www.nwf.org/~~/media/PDFs/Global-Warming/NWF_ExtremeWeather_pages_sm.pdf?dmc=1%26ts=20121114T12484584780)
Global warming is making hot days hotter, rainfall and flooding heavier, storms stronger
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could create more than 430,000 jobs for African Americans by 2030.

Unchecked warming causes planetary extinction

Brandenburg and Paxson 1999 (John Brandenburg, PhD, physicist and professor, and Monica Rix Paxson, distinguished science writer, "Dead Mars, Dying Earth," google books)
One can imagine a scenario for global catastrophe that runs similarly. If the human
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Mars—red, desolate, with perhaps a few hardy microbes surviving. 

Our environmental apocalypticism spurs activism

Veldman 2012 (Robin Veldman, doctoral candidate in the Religion and Nature program at the University of Florida, Spring 2012, "Narrating the Environmental Apocalypse," Ethics %26 the Environment Volume 17, Number 1, Muse)
Some of the strongest evidence of a connection between environmental apocalypticism and activism comes from
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, are quite likely to subscribe to some form of the apocalyptic narrative. 

Even if it doesn’t spill UP to actual implementation our discussion of energy policy spills OVER to create a public consciousness shift

Crist 2004 (Eileen Crist, Professor at Virginia Tech in the Department of Science and Technology, "Against the social construction of nature and wilderness," Environmental Ethics, http://www.sts.vt.edu/faculty/crist/againstsocialconstruction.pdf)
Yet, constructivist analyses of "nature" favor remaining in the comfort zone of
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the world at an hour that is pressingly calling us to change it.

A broad climate coalition reforms progressive politics is the only hope of solving warming

Smith 2010 (Brendan Smith, co-founder of Labor Network for Sustainability, November 23, 2010, "Fighting Doom: The New Politics of Climate Change," Common Dreams, http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/11/23-1)
I admit I have arrived late to the party. Only recently have I begun
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said to me, "God help us, I hope you’re right."

Anti-nuclear alarmism is paranoia used to give cover to the right

Pearce 2012 (Fred Pearce, environmental consultant for New Scientist magazine, October 22, 2012, "Why Are Environmentalists
Taking Anti-Science Positions?," Yale Environment 360, http://e360.yale.edu/feature/why_are_environmentalists_taking_anti-science_positions/2584/)
Three current issues suggest that the risks of myopic adherence to ideology over rational debate
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reckless, anti-scientific and deeply damaging to the world’s climate future.

1AC PRISM- Solvency

NRC restrictions prevent SMR licensing now- plan solves

Reynolds 2010 (Roger S. Reynolds, ANS, lead writer, July 2010, "APPLICABILITY OF THE NRC LIGHT WATER REACTOR LICENSING PROCESS TO SMRs," American Nuclear Society, online)
3. TECHNOLOGY-NEUTRAL FRAMEWORK: GENERAL-SAFETY-STANDARDS OPTION¶ As
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to or better than what is provided by compliance with the current regulations.

PRISM SMRs solve the drawbacks to conventional nuclear plants- they completely resolve the waste issue and burn up weapons-grade plutonium

Pearce 2012 (Fred Pearce, freelance author and journalist based in the UK. He serves as environmental consultant for New Scientist magazine, July 30, 2012, "Are Fast-Breeder Reactors¶ A Nuclear Power Panacea?," Yale Environment 360, http://e360.yale.edu/feature/are_fast-breeder_reactors_a_nuclear_power_panacea/2557/)
Plutonium is the nuclear nightmare. A by-product of conventional power-station
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.S. Export-Import Bank is reportedly ready to provide financing.

The tech is safe proven and fast

Pearce 2012 (Fred Pearce, freelance author and journalist based in the UK. He serves as environmental consultant for New Scientist magazine, July 30, 2012, "Are Fast-Breeder Reactors¶ A Nuclear Power Panacea?," Yale Environment 360, http://e360.yale.edu/feature/are_fast-breeder_reactors_a_nuclear_power_panacea/2557/)
Only fast reactors can consume the plutonium. Many think that will ultimately be the
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the Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois in 1965 and ran for three decades.

Simulation influences state policy and activates individual agency

Eijkman 2012 (Dr. Henk Eijkman, currently an independent consultant as well as visiting fellow at the University of New South Wales at the Australian Defence Force Academy and is Visiting Professor of Academic Development, "The role of simulations in the authentic learning for national security policy development: Implications for Practice," http://nsc.anu.edu.au/test/documents/Sims_in_authentic_learning_report.pdf)
However, whether as an approach to learning, innovation, persuasion or culture shift
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contains a detailed description, in table format, of the synopsis below. 

Simulation facilitates communication and across multiple groups- includes all forms of knowledge

Eijkman 2012 (Dr. Henk Eijkman, currently an independent consultant as well as visiting fellow at the University of New South Wales at the Australian Defence Force Academy and is Visiting Professor of Academic Development, "The role of simulations in the authentic learning for national security policy development: Implications for Practice," http://nsc.anu.edu.au/test/documents/Sims_in_authentic_learning_report.pdf)
Policy simulations facilitate effective communication across diverse groups, encourage the exchange of ideas,
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perspective or that of one dominant stakeholder (Geurts et al. 2007). 

Scientific epistemology is necessary in the context of climate change—-

Bricmont 2001 Jean Bricmont, professor of theoretical physics at the University of Louvain, "Defense of a Modest Scientific Realism", September 23, http://www.physics.nyu.edu/faculty/sokal/bielefeld_final.pdf-http://www.physics.nyu.edu/faculty/sokal/bielefeld_final.pdf
Given that instrumentalism is not defensible when it is formulated as a rigid doctrine,
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but we would like to offer a few ideas that might prove useful.

Tournament: NDT | Round: 7 | Opponent: West GA DF | Judge: Kurr, Watts, Weil

2AC

Extinction

Extinction outweighs – as long as there is some life there’s only a risk they retain ontological capacity

Jonas 1996 Hans Jonas (Former Alvin Johnson Prof. Phil. – New School for Social Research and Former Eric Voegelin Visiting Prof. – U. Munich) 1996 "Morality and Mortality: A Search for the Good After Auschwitz", p. 111-112)
With this look ahead at an ethics for the future, we are touching at
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confession of faith we come to the end of our essay on ontology. 

A2 Social Death

Anti-blackness doesn’t cause social death or predetermine subjectivity

Brown 2009 (Vincent Brown, Professor of History and of African and African-American¶ Studies at Harvard University. December 2009, ¶ AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW, http://history.fas.harvard.edu/people/faculty/documents/brown-socialdeath.pdf)
Like scholars of resistance before him, Rucker effectively refutes any contention that the enslaved
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power of slaveholders, but the very terms and conditions of social existence. 

Wilderson’s thesis that Anti-Blackness creates ontological death is epistemologically flawed and should be rejected outright

Saër Maty Ba (Professor of Film – University of Portsmouth and Co-Editor – The Encyclopedia of Global Human Migration)  "The US Decentred: From Black Social Death to Cultural Transformation" September 2011 , Cultural Studies Review, 17(2), , p. 385-387, http://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/journals/index.php/csrj/article/viewFile/2304/2474-http://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/journals/index.php/csrj/article/viewFile/2304/2474
A few pages into Red, White and Black, I feared that it would
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locus for performing the pedagogy of blackness’ through black beauty pageants for example. 

(136) Pinho objects to the policing of black women’s bodies, opposes notions
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, related to cinema or not, are always‐already multiply outernational. 

Fiat—-

Attempts at changing the world are not only prerequisites to life celebration but also lead to new forms of life celebration that their evidence doesn’t assume

Todd  May (professor of philosophy at Clemson University) 2005  "To Change the World, To Celebrate Life" Philosophy and Social Criticism, Sage Publications
And what happens from there? From the meetings, from the rallies, from
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our lives and in our politics, we can be worthy of it. 

A2 State Link

Perm solves and case outweighs the difference – acknowledging the reasons for anti-statism do not warrant rejection of functional solutions to warming – most durable – key to international*

Robyn Eckersly 2004 the green state: rethinking democracy and sovereignty p.5-6
While acknowledging the basis for this antipathy toward the nation-state, and the
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ecological emancipation without also engaging with and seeking to transform state power. 

Our harms outweigh their link to the aff

Eckersley 2003 (Robyn Eckersley, Politics at Melbourne, The Green State p. 89-93)
Green poststructuralists have likewise sought to deconstruct the disciplinary effects of biopower and green governmentality
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precisely where an ongoing green critical locus  on the state can remain productive. 

Talking about the state doesn’t legitimize it- state-related discourse is inevitable and not inherently bad just because the state itself may be

Frost 1996 (Mervyn Frost, Professor at the University of Kent, "Ethics In International Relations A Constitutive Theory," pp. 90-91)
A first objection which seems inherent in Donelan’s approach is that utilizing the modern state
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such as citizenship, rights under law, representative government and so on.

A2 Alt

Our framework

Ontologically opposing Blackness to Whiteness makes Black struggle STRUCTURALLY dependent on the existence of White Racism and wounded attachments to suffering – this is a net benefit to the aff or perms

Pinn 2004 (Anthony, Anthony B. Pinn is an American professor and writer whose work focuses on liberation theology, Black religion, and Black humanism. Pinn is the Agnes Cullen Arnold Professor of Humanities and Professor of Religious Studies at Rice University, "’’Black Is, Black Ain’t’’: Victor Anderson, African American Theological Thought, and Identity," Dialog: A Journal of Theology, Volume 43, Number 1 . Spring 2004)
This connection between ontological blackness and religion is natural because: ’’ontological blackness signifies
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to surrender personal interests for the sake of mono- lithic collective status.

Afro-pessimism expropriates right-wing discourses of black pathology—their authors’ read of Fanon impoverished view of Blackness as an ontology which locks in whiteness by denying black social life and foreclosing episodes of stolen life

Moten 2008 (Fred, English Professor at Duke University, "The Case of Blackness," Criticism, 50.2, MUSE)  
The cultural and political discourse on black pathology has been so pervasive that it could
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others. There is of course the moment of "being for others," 

of which Hegel speaks, but every ontology is made unattainable in a colonized and
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to that quickening, forgetive force that Agamben calls the form of life.

Tournament: NDT | Round: 7 | Opponent: West GA DF | Judge: Kurr, Watts, Weil

1AR

Perm

Extend the perm to do the non-competitive parts of the K. Despite their attempt to articulate the alternative as exclusive, it really isn’t – Afro-optimism %26 Afro-pessimism have significant points of convergence

Stephen H. Marshall (bio) Associate Professor of political theory in The Departments of American Studies and African and African Diaspora Studies at the University of Texas at AustinTheory %26 Event  Volume 15, Issue 3, 2012 The Political Life of Fungibility (MUSE)
Within black studies, Hartman’s work has engendered a lively debate between scholars who describe
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of fungibility articulate itself if formulated in the ordinary language of lived experience?

1AC- SMR aff, production cost incentives mech, SMR tech adv w/ prolif and terror, Econ/heg adv w/ unemployment, manufacturing, tech internal links

1NC- Gas tax CP, K, Renewables DA, prolif link turns

2NR- Gas tax CP, Renewables DA

2AR- SMR tech adv, Perm, Aff solve warming, Solves renewables intermittency 

1ac- same
1nc- t-sub, security k, heavy water reactor pic
2nr- t, k

1AC- Same
1NC- Prolif good, renewables t/o da, NPR prolif adv cp, corporate tax econ adv cp, security K, T-FI = to investors only
2NC- prolif good
1NR- t, prolif good

2NR- T

2AC straight turned renewables

1AC- Same
1NC- Cap, case
2AC- Cap good, etc.
Block- Cap/case
2NR- Cap
2Ar- Cap good, etc.
 

1AC- SMR w/ tech adv and more developed heg impact
1NC- Whiteness K

1AC- Same as doubles
1NC- Scholarship procedural arg, resilience K, eco justice K
2NR- Eco justice K

1AC- 

DOD SMR- PPA mechanism

Grid adv- China/Taiwan and readiness

SMR markets adv- Same as UMKC 1AC

open source below

1AR kicked prolif impact on markets adv

2AR kicked terror part of markets adv

Extremely similar 1AC to Harvard round 6:
Afghanistan adv with Indo/Pak, Afghanistan escalation
Markets adv with prolif and terrorism

2AC read a nuke primacy/deterrence add-on- Labor low now, plan incentivizes it, key to primacy

The rest is below.

1AC same as round 1

1NC -> 2NR was 1 off Mignolo

No 2AC tricks/offense other than K impact turns, attached below.

new russia adv-

floating smrs = trade/econ collapse by terror
russia latin america influence bad- blank/LA instability

2ac read an econ add-on and oceans add-on

same 1ac as round 6

PRISM 1AC with new/different preempts- attached below
2NR went for Ableism

Same 1AC as Wake 6 and 7

Same DOD SMR plan
Environment advantage: Coal/gas bad
No great power wars

Same DOD SMRs 1AC

Plan: The United States Federal Government should substantially reduce restrictions on energy production of natural gas in the Outer Continental Shelf.

Navy- Navy solves war, solves trade, trade good

Russia- RU/EU Relations solve Central Asia war, US/EU relations solve laundry list, Russia econ modernization good, Russia gas weapon bad

1AC was the same as Northwestern- OCS Natural gas with a Russia advantage and a Navy advantage
1NC- Civ K, Nietzsche K, E-Spec, Authorize Exports CP
2NR- Nietzsche K and E-Spec
2AR- Case outweighs

1AC was OCS Natural gas with Russia and Navy advantages- some new shipbuilding cards
1NC- CIR politics, Security K, Arctic PIC, liberalize EU gas market CP
2NR- CIR politics
2AR- CIR inevitable, link turns, biotech add-on

1AC was same as round 4
1NC- Russia reps pic, CIR, arctic CP/DA, T-prohibit
2NR- Russia racism DA from PIC w/o the CP
2AR- No link, case outweighs