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Plan: The United States Federal Government should substantially increase commercial loan guarantees for purposes of energy production by development for Integral Fast Reactors in the United States.
Graham Allison, January/February 2010, Director of Harvard’s major Center for Science and International Affairs, as for three decades been a leading analyst of U.S. national security and defense policy with a special interest in nuclear weapons, terrorism, and decision-making, Assistant Secretary of Defense in the first Clinton Administration, Defense Medal for Distinguished Public Service, Organizer of the Commission on America’s National Interests, Foreign Policy, "Nuclear Disorder," Ebsco Host
THE GLOBAL nuclear order today could be as fragile as the global financial order was
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war so imminent that prudent statesmen must do everything feasible to prevent it.
Those who acquire nuclear weapons don’t do it for reasons of security and deterrence – Waltz is wrong.
Christopher Bluth, 7-11-2011, work is in international security,
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Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty: Reconsidering the Dynamics of Proliferation," Ebsco Host
If ’trusting relationships’ are fundamental to the dynamic of the NPT, then the
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a powerful means to provide for their security seems prima facie implausible.
Graham Allison, January/February 2010, Director of Harvard’s major Center for Science and International Affairs, as for three decades been a leading analyst of U.S. national security and defense policy with a special interest in nuclear weapons, terrorism, and decision-making, Assistant Secretary of Defense in the first Clinton Administration, Defense Medal for Distinguished Public Service, Organizer of the Commission on America’s National Interests, Foreign Policy, "Nuclear Disorder," Ebsco Host
GROWING CYNICISM about the nonproliferation regime also threatens to undercut the global nuclear order.
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to the "benefits of peaceful nuclear technology" without such a consequence.
U.S. fast reactors and pyro-processing is key to reinvigorating nuclear leadership – Korea proves.
Charles D. Ferguson, 6-17-2009, is the Philip D. Reed senior fellow for science and technology at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), is also an adjunct professor in the security studies program at Georgetown University, where he teaches a graduate-level course titled "Nuclear Technologies and Security," and an adjunct lecturer in the national security studies program at the Johns Hopkins University, where he teaches a graduate level course titled "Weapons of Mass Destruction Technologies," served as the project director for the CFR-sponsored Independent Task Force on U.S. Nuclear Weapons Policy, scientist-inresidence at the Monterey Institute’s Center for Nonproliferation Studies (CNS), won the Robert S. Landauer Lecture Award from the Health Physics Society, Testimony to Committee on Science and Technology, U.S. House of Representatives, "Advancing Technology for Nuclear Fuel Recycling: What Should Our Research, Development, and Demonstration Strategy Be?." http://www.cfr.org/content/publications/attachments/FergusonTestimonyJune172009.pdf-http://www.cfr.org/content/publications/attachments/FergusonTestimonyJune172009.pdf
The benefit of a fast reactor recycling program could be the reduction or near elimination
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technical expertise and political support in helping to establish regional spent fuel repositories.
Jan Ruzicka %26 Nicholas J. Wheeler, 1-18-2010, was
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Vol. 86 Issue 1, p. 79-81, Ebsco Host
The nub of the problem is how to preserve the sovereign right of states to
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trusting relation-ships among the NWS and ultimately moving towards nuclear disarmament.
Counterplan cards and reprocessing turns don’t apply – brain drain, new capacity.
Jacques C. Hymans, January/March 2011, is associate professor of international relations at the University of Southern California, research focuses on nuclear proliferation, and more broadly, on international security affairs, an editorial board member of the Nonproliferation Review, Ph.D. in Government from Harvard University,Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University Olin Institute for Strategic Studies, Vol. 20 Issue 1, "Proliferation Implications of Civil Nuclear Cooperation: Theory and a Case Study of Tito’s Yugoslavia," p. 100-3, Ebsco Host
Many analysts have characterized aboveboard international civil nuclear cooperation—"Atoms for Peace"—as
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spent fuel attractive for rapid proliferation – low radiation levels and easy reaction.
Stephen Berry %26 George S. Tolley, 11-29-2010, James Franck Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus at the University of Chicago, Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, foreign Member, Royal Danish Academy of Sciences, member and Home Secretary, National Academy of Sciences, J. Heyrovsky Honorary Medal for Merit in the Chemical Sciences, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung Senior Scientist Award, Phi Beta Kappa National Lecturer, George S. Tolley is a professor emeritus in Economics at the University of Chicago, fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science, honorary editor, Resource and Energy Economics, honorary Ph.D., North Carolina State University, "Nuclear Fuel Reprocessing Future Prospects and Viability," p. 6-7, http://humanities.uchicago.edu/orgs/institute/bigproblems/Team7-1210.pdf-http://humanities.uchicago.edu/orgs/institute/bigproblems/Team7-1210.pdf
Another pressing concern to consider is the fear of nuclear proliferation. While the uranium
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lost or stolen, its existence alone remains a threat to nuclear proliferation.
IFR’s makes it impossible for terrorists to steal fissile material – too hot to handle and mixed materials.
Charles Till, 2011, longtime Associate Laboratory Director for Engineering Research at Argonne National Laboratory, directed civilian nuclear power reactor development at Argonne National Laboratory, PhD Engineering, Specialty Reactor Physics, Imperial College, University of London, National Research Council of Canada, United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority , Fellow of the American Nuclear Society, awarded the Walker Cisler Medal, National Academy of Engineering, FRONTLINE PBS, "NUCLEAR REACTION Why do Americans Fear Nuclear Power," http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/reaction/interviews/till.html-http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/reaction/interviews/till.html
The object in the IFR demonstration was to invent, if you like, a
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the kind that the weapon designer needs. The IFR doesn’t do that.
John Deutch %26 Ernest Moniz, 2003, CO CHAIR Institute Professor Department of Chemistry, MIT, and Ernest Moniz a co-chair in the Department of Physics, MIT Director of Energy Studies, Laboratory for Energy and the Environment, The Future of Nuclear Power – an interdisciplinary MIT Study, The Future of Nuclear Power: An Interdisciplinary MIT Study, "Chaired Effort to Identify Barriers and Solutions for Nuclear Option in Reducing Greenhouse Gases," http://web.mit.edu/nuclearpower/-http://web.mit.edu/nuclearpower/
In addition to the risk of nuclear weapons capability spreading to other nations, the
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particularly to those countries without the infrastructure for assuring stringent control and accountability.
Security is a joke spent nuclear fuel is highly vulnerable to terrorist theft – cited means and motivation.
Stephen Menesick, Summer 2011, Political Science and Peace, War and Defense, public policy analysis, Unviersity of Chapel Hill,
Global Security Studies, Vol. 2 Issue 3, " Preventing the Unthinkable: An Overview of Threats, Risks, and US Policy Response to Nuclear Terrorism," p. 5-6, http://globalsecuritystudies.com/Menesick%20Nuclear%20Final.pdf-http://globalsecuritystudies.com/Menesick Nuclear Final.pdf
The outlook in Russia is bleaker. After the Cold War, many Russian nuclear
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people willing to make it into a usable weapon if they cannot themselves.
Patrick F. Speice, Jr., Feburary 2006, is an associate in Gibson
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"Negligence and Nuclear Nonproliferation," William %26 Mary Law Review, Lexis Nexis
Accordingly, there is a significant and ever-present risk that terrorists could acquire
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in the United States and escalate to the use of nuclear weapons. 53
Steve Kirsch, 11-25-2009, M.S. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), writer for the Huffington Post, CEO Kirsch foundation on climate, founder/head of Center for Energy and Climate Change, National Award from the Caring Institute in Washington DC, written much about the Integral Fast Reactor, Fellow, with the Science Council for Global Initiatives (SCGI), Steve Kirsch’s blog, "Why We Should Build an Integral Fast Reactor Now," http://skirsch.wordpress.com/2009/11/25/ifr/-http://skirsch.wordpress.com/2009/11/25/ifr/
*cites Charles Till, former Associate Director, Argonne National Laboratory, The National Academy Studies, James Hansen, Director, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, Ray Hunter, former Deputy Director of the Office of Nuclear Energy, Science and Technology in the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), Leonard Koch, winner of the Global Energy International Prize, Barry Brook Sir Hubert Wilkins Chair of Climate Change*
To prevent a climate disaster, we must eliminate virtually all coal plant emissions worldwide
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for 30 years, nuclear still supplies 70% of our clean power%21
Barry Brook et. al, 2-21-2009, a leading environmental scientist, holding the Sir Hubert Wilkins Chair of Climate Change at the School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, and is also Director of Climate Science at the University of Adelaide’s Environment Institute, published three books, over 200 refereed scientific papers, is a highly cited researcher, received a number of distinguished awards for his research excellence including the Australian Academy of Science Fenner Medal, is an International Award Committee member for the Global Energy Prize, Australian Research Council Future Fellow, ISI Researcher, Ph.D., Macquarie University in Environmental Engineering, Science Council for Global Initiatives, Edgeworth David Medal Royal Society of NSW, Cosmos Bright Sparks Award, Tom Blees is the author of Prescription for the Planet, the president of the Science Council for Global Initiatives, member of the selection committee for the Global Energy Prize, George S. Stanford is a nuclear reactor physicist, part of the team that developed the Integral Fast Reactor, PhD from Stanford University in Physics, Masters from University of Virginia in Engineering, worked at Argonne National Laboratory, Graham R.L. Cowan, "Boron: A Better Energy Carrier than Hydrogen?" in 2001, published "How Fire Can Be Tamed," BraveNewClimate, "Response to an Integral Fast Reactor (IFR) critique," http://bravenewclimate.com/2009/02/21/response-to-an-integral-fast-reactor-ifr-critique/-http://bravenewclimate.com/2009/02/21/response-to-an-integral-fast-reactor-ifr-critique/
~TB~ Almost 80% of greenhouse gas emissions come from nuclear-capable
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and the further 200 or so plants in the planning or construction pipeline?
Electricity demands are rising.
John Deutch %26 Ernest Moniz, 2003, CO CHAIR Institute Professor Department of Chemistry, MIT, and Ernest Moniz a co-chair in the Department of Physics, MIT Director of Energy Studies, Laboratory for Energy and the Environment, The Future of Nuclear Power – an interdisciplinary MIT Study, The Future of Nuclear Power: An Interdisciplinary MIT Study, "Chaired Effort to Identify Barriers and Solutions for Nuclear Option in Reducing Greenhouse Gases," http://web.mit.edu/nuclearpower/-http://web.mit.edu/nuclearpower/
The U.S. National Academy of Engineering named electrification as the premier engineering
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, a simple scenario for electricity growth over the next fifty years.
Alexander DeVolpi, 2-28-2010, been active in nuclear-arms policy and treaty-verification technology studies for over 25 years, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois (and other national laboratories) involved nearly 40 years of lab, field, and analytical activities in instrumentation, nuclear physics, nuclear engineering, reactor safety, radioisotopes, experiments, verification technology, and arms control, the Defense Nuclear Agency, On-Site Inspection Agency, all the Department of Energy weapons labs, with the Departments of Defense and State, author or coauthor of several books, Ph.D. in physics (and MS in nuclear engineering physics) from Virginia Polytechnic Institute, certificate from the Argonne International Institute of Nuclear Science and Engineering, managing nuclear diagnostics for the Reactor Analysis and Safety Division at Argonne, and becoming technical manager of the arms-control and nonproliferation program, Who’s Who in Frontiers of Science and Technology, American Men and Women of Science, fellow of the American Physical Society, technical consultant in the Federation of American Scientists/Natural Resources Defense Council joint project, ScienceTechnologyHistory, "NUCLEAR EXPERTISE: The Amory Lovins Charade," http://sciencetechnologyhistory.wordpress.com/article/nuclear-expertise-the-amory-lovins-1gsyt5k142kc5-20/-http://sciencetechnologyhistory.wordpress.com/article/nuclear-expertise-the-amory-lovins-1gsyt5k142kc5-20/
Nuclear power is not only commercially competitive, but extremely safe (no coal miners
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effort to undermine the reliability of nuclear power egregiously fails the smell test.
Steve Kirsch, 11-25-2009, M.S. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), writer for the Huffington Post, CEO Kirsch foundation on climate, founder/head of Center for Energy and Climate Change, National Award from the Caring Institute in Washington DC, written much about the Integral Fast Reactor, Fellow, with the Science Council for Global Initiatives (SCGI), Steve Kirsch’s blog, "Why We Should Build an Integral Fast Reactor Now," http://skirsch.wordpress.com/2009/11/25/ifr/-http://skirsch.wordpress.com/2009/11/25/ifr/
*cites Charles Till, former Associate Director, Argonne National Laboratory, The National Academy Studies, James Hansen, Director, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, Ray Hunter, former Deputy Director of the Office of Nuclear Energy, Science and Technology in the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), Leonard Koch, winner of the Global Energy International Prize, Barry Brook Sir Hubert Wilkins Chair of Climate Change*
Nuclear can be installed very rapidly; much more rapidly than renewables. For example
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we have the money: The Recovery Act has %2480 billion dollars.
Mudathir F. Akorede et. al, June 2012, M.Eng degree
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global warming in the electric power industry," p. 1, Ebsco Host
One of the most current and widely discussed factors that could lead to the ultimate
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to mitigate global warming with a particular focus on the electric power industry.
Anthropogenic warming is real and has a scientific consensus.
John W. Farley, July/August 2008, is a professor in the department of physics and astronomy at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, where he has won several awards for distinguished teaching, Monthly Review: An Independent Socialist Magazine, Vol. 60 Issue 3, "The Scientific Case for Modern Anthropogenic Global Warming," p. 88, Ebsco Host
Anthropogenic global warming is based on very solid science. The discussion in the scientific
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reality and to do something about it, while there is still time.
Steve Kirsch, 11-25-2009, M.S. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), writer for the Huffington Post, CEO Kirsch foundation on climate, founder/head of Center for Energy and Climate Change, National Award from the Caring Institute in Washington DC, written much about the Integral Fast Reactor, Fellow, with the Science Council for Global Initiatives (SCGI), Steve Kirsch’s blog, "Why We Should Build an Integral Fast Reactor Now," http://skirsch.wordpress.com/2009/11/25/ifr/-http://skirsch.wordpress.com/2009/11/25/ifr/
*cites Charles Till, former Associate Director, Argonne National Laboratory, The National Academy Studies, James Hansen, Director, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, Ray Hunter, former Deputy Director of the Office of Nuclear Energy, Science and Technology in the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), Leonard Koch, winner of the Global Energy International Prize, Barry Brook Sir Hubert Wilkins Chair of Climate Change*
Even if you believe all the arguments of the opposition and completely discount the arguments
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getting the IFR commercialised and deployment on an industrial scale cannot be overstated".
Anthropogenic warming causes rapid sea level rise and a collapse in biodiversity.
Kathy J. Willis et. al, 2010, holds the Tasso Leventis Chair
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this mean for biodiversity in the past?," p. 3, Ebsco Host
Of the many predictions for climate change in the next cen-tury, a
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(Parme-san %26 Yohe, 2003; Thomaset al., 2004).
Ruth Young, 2-9-2010, Ph.D. specialising in coastal marine ecology, "Biodiversity: what it is and why it’s important," http://www.talkingnature.com/2010/02/Biodiversity/Biodiversity-what-and-why/-http://www.talkingnature.com/2010/02/Biodiversity/Biodiversity-what-and-why/
Different species within ecosystems fill particular roles, they all have a function, they
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on this planet possible and that our protection of Biodiversity maintains this service.
Fast reactors are 100% safe – multiple redundancies eliminating human error and impregnable
Barry Brook et. al, 2-21-2009, a leading environmental scientist, holding the Sir Hubert Wilkins Chair of Climate Change at the School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, and is also Director of Climate Science at the University of Adelaide’s Environment Institute, published three books, over 200 refereed scientific papers, is a highly cited researcher, received a number of distinguished awards for his research excellence including the Australian Academy of Science Fenner Medal, is an International Award Committee member for the Global Energy Prize, Australian Research Council Future Fellow, ISI Researcher, Ph.D., Macquarie University in Environmental Engineering, Science Council for Global Initiatives, Edgeworth David Medal Royal Society of NSW, Cosmos Bright Sparks Award, Tom Blees is the author of Prescription for the Planet, the president of the Science Council for Global Initiatives, member of the selection committee for the Global Energy Prize, George S. Stanford is a nuclear reactor physicist, part of the team that developed the Integral Fast Reactor, PhD from Stanford University in Physics, Masters from University of Virginia in Engineering, worked at Argonne National Laboratory, Graham R.L. Cowan, "Boron: A Better Energy Carrier than Hydrogen?" in 2001, published "How Fire Can Be Tamed," BraveNewClimate, "Response to an Integral Fast Reactor (IFR) critique," http://bravenewclimate.com/2009/02/21/response-to-an-integral-fast-reactor-ifr-critique/-http://bravenewclimate.com/2009/02/21/response-to-an-integral-fast-reactor-ifr-critique/
~BWB~ The laws of physics say that this is not nonsense. For
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Their safety features are far beyond our current reactors by orders of magnitude.
Pyro-processing is developed now and is comparatively better than existing reactors.
Tom Blees, 5-31-2011, is the author of Prescription for the Planet, the president of the Science Council for Global Initiatives, member of the selection committee for the Global Energy Prize, Idaho Samizdat: Nuke Notes, "Critique of MIT Nuclear Fuel Cycle Report," http://djysrv.blogspot.com/2011/05/critique-of-mit-nuclear-fuel-cycle.html-http://djysrv.blogspot.com/2011/05/critique-of-mit-nuclear-fuel-cycle.html
The public views adequate nuclear waste management as a critical linchpin in further development of
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proposing a century-long interim storage of the spent nuclear fuel.
