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Free Market CP: 1NC

The United States federal government should provide power purchase agreements for small modular nuclear reactors that are diminishing as the technology improves in price and performance. 

Temporary, diminishing incentives are vital to inducing competition, technological innovation and ending subsidy dependence
Jenkins, 12
– Director of Energy and Climate Policy at the Breakthrough Institute (Jesse, Congressional Testimony before the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, 5/22, http://www.energy.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/files/serve?File_id=31b79a1a-83a0-4ae6-8c80-30fe754ad0ea)

Recognizing that investment horizons,  [...] investment to broader private capital markets.

Conditioning new incentives on price competition solves the aff better and avoids our disads
Hayward, 10
– resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute (Steven, “Post-Partisan Power: How a Limited and Direct Approach to Energy Innovation Can Deliver Clean, Cheap Energy, Economic Productivity and National Prosperity”, October, http://thebreakthrough.org/blog/Post-Partisan%20Power.pdf)

The government has a long  [...] clean and affordable energy technologies are commercialized.  

The CP prevents the collapse of the energy bubble – avoids economic collapse
Swezey, 11
– project director for The Breakthrough Institute (Devon, “Clean Tech Sector Heading for a Major Crash” 7/11, http://blacklistednews.com/?news_id=14600&print=1)

The global clean energy industry  [...] multi-trillion dollar energy market.

Electricity Prices DA

Electricity prices are low and will likely decline now – gas boom, energy efficiency, reduced demand
Burtraw 8/21/12 (one of the nation’s foremost experts on environmental regulation in the electricity sector. “Falling Emissions and Falling Prices: Expectations for the Domestic Natural Gas Boom” http://common-resources.org/2012/falling-emissions-and-falling-prices-expectations-for-the-domestic-natural-gas-boom/)

Moreover, the boom in  [...] in savings projected for 2020.

A forced resurgence of nuclear power into the market drives up the electricity price – construction and cost overruns are placed on ratepayers before the plants are even done.
Union of Concerned Scientists, The Union of Concerned Scientists is the leading science-based nonprofit organization working for a healthy environment and a safer world, “Nuclear Power: A Resurgence We Can’t Afford” Issue Briefing, August 09

The cost of nuclear power is  [...] Figure 2) (Cooper 2009).

Electricity price increases ripple throughout the economy – cause economic decline
Nicolas Loris (Herbert and Joyce Morgan Fellow at the Thomas A. Roe Institute for Economic Policy Studies) July 23 12 “The Assault on Coal and American Consumers”, http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2012/07/the-assault-on-coal-and-american-consumers 

These higher energy prices will also  [...] growth, and higher unemployment.

Give Back the Land

The 1AC is a typical leftist response to oppression that remains silent in the face of the on-going colonization of native North America. The plan serves as a mask for the state, but its existence is contingent upon a continuing legacy of colonization that guarantees exploitation – only by giving back the land and rethinking our relationship to this colonization as THE starting point to oppression can we solve the classism, racism, sexism, and militarism which make violence and extinction inevitable

Our alternative is US off the planet 

Ward Churchill 1996 (Professor of Ethnic Studies at University of Colorado, Boulder, BA and MA in
Communications from Sangamon State, From A Native Son pgs 520 – 530)

I’ll debunk some of this nonsense  [...] militaristic order on non-Indians.

Nuclear Power Bad

Their claims to solve waste naturalize scientific legitimacy and nuclear power. Their affirmative is only another manifestation of a fantasy of atomic control
Valerie Kuletz, lecturer in Amer. Studies at Univ. of Canterbury in NZ, 1998, The Tainted Desert, pg 281-2
There is one special “model [...] or the fantasy, remains.

Questioning the epistemology that underlies the nuclear waste crisis must precede attempts to solve it. Only our approach can avoid environmental racism and otherization of indigenous peoples
Valerie Kuletz, lecturer in Amer. Studies at Univ. of Canterbury in NZ, 1998, The Tainted Desert, pg xvi-ii
The region I study has become  [...] attempt to resolve environmental crisis. 

The implication is that these exclusions on the basis of otherness are the underlying ethic that makes genocide possible. Their approach makes violence and discrimination inevitable
John T. Pawlikowski, OSM, Ph.D., Catholic Theological Union, Chicago, 7/1/2003, http://www.jcrelations.net/en/?id=1995
In Morality After Auschwitz: The  [...] , 2000, 133) 

Econ Answer

The nuclear industry is a net loss for jobs—researchers prove
Warnock 2012 (Wall street Journal, Fukushima Watch: No Reactors, Fewer Jobs?, http://blogs.wsj.com/japanrealtime/2012/07/13/fukushima-watch-no-reactors-fewer-jobs/) JA

Losing jobs in the nuclear power  [...] .

Resilient
Globe and Mail 2010 (5/31/10, BRIAN MILNER, "While gloom says bear, TIGER points to bull", lexis, WEA)

Even at the height of the  [...] things are looking better."

Warming Ans

Can’t solve for transportation emissions
Squassoni 12 (Susan, Director and Senior Fellow of the Proliferation Prevention Program at CSIS, (FAS and WASHINGTON and LEE UNIVERSITY The Future of Nuclear Power in the United States, Edited by Charles D. Ferguson and Frank A. Settle, February, http://www.fas.org/pubs/_docs/Nuclear_Energy_Report-lowres.pdf) 

In response to mitigating climate  [...] emissions will be somewhat limited. 

Nuclear power contributes to warming
Grossman 08 - Karl Grossman, Professor, Journalism, SUNY-Old Westbury, “Money Is the Real Green Power: The Hoax of Eco-Friendly Nuclear Energy,” EXTRA!, January/February 2008, npg.

What is left unmentioned by the  [...] -ed columnists and editors." 

Emissions increases elsewhere offset US gains
Scheffran 11 (Jürgen, head of the research group climate change and security at the KlimaCampus of Hamburg University in Germany, “Nuclear energy and climate change: limits and risks”) http://www.nirs.org/international/reachingcriticalwillreport.pdf 

3. Due to the  [...] within the next five decades. 

No extinction from warming
NIPCC 11. Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change. Surviving the unprecedented climate change of the IPCC. 8 March 2011. http://www.nipccreport.org/articles/2011/mar/8mar2011a5.html

In a paper published in Systematics  [...] to wide amplitude fluctuations in climate."

Shift away from coal is inevitable—multiple factors
Kennedy and Bradbury 12 (Kevin, Director of the U.S. Climate Initiative at the World Resources Institute, co-authored with James Bradbury, Senior Associate, WRI, 4/11/12, “Markets Favor Alternatives to Coal” National Journal) http://energy.nationaljournal.com/2012/04/whats-really-causing-coals-dec.php

The U.S. electric  [...] retirement of America’s aging coal fleet. 

Nuclear power is just as dirty as coal
Diesendorf 11 (Mark, Australian academic and environmentalist, teaches Environmental Studies at the University of South Wales, “Demystification of Nuclear Energy” D!ssent No.36, Spring 2011, 13-18) http://www.ies.unsw.edu.au/docs/DemystificationNuclearEnergyMD.pdf

Nuclear power promoters often claim that  [...] of the same order of magnitude. 

Solvency 

Too many alt causes to solving nuclear power
Maize, contributing editor – POWER Magazine, 7/1/’12
(Kennedy, “Fukushima Disaster Continues to Cloud Nuclear Outlook,” POWERnews)

J. Frank Russell, senior  [...] public must be positive and supportive.

Expansion is slow—reactors take 10 years to build
Madsen et al 09 (Travis Madsen and Tony Dutzik, analysts for Frontier Group, Bernadette Del Chiaro and Rob Sargent Environment America Research & Policy Center, November 2009, “GENERATING FAILURE How Building Nuclear Power Plants Would Set America Back in the Race Against Global Warming” Frontier Group, Environment America) http://www.frontiergroup.org/sites/default/files/reports/Generating-Failure---Environment-America---Web.pdf

At Best, No New Reactors  [...] very well be too optimistic. 

Plan can’t solve—no production capacity and technician shortage
Mez September 2012—Lutz Mez [Department of Political and Social Sciences, Freie Universitat Berlin] “Nuclear energy–Any solution for sustainability and climate protection” Energy Policy 48 (2012) 56–63

The nuclear industry has been battling  [...] finally found for nuclear waste.

Multiple barriers prevent nuclear investment
Fahring, JD –U Texas School ofLaw, ‘11
(T.L., 41 Tex. Envtl. L.J. 279)

V. Potential Problems with the  [...] to go through with new construction.

Too many alt causes to solving nuclear power
Maize, contributing editor – POWER Magazine, 7/1/’12
(Kennedy, “Fukushima Disaster Continues to Cloud Nuclear Outlook,” POWERnews)

J. Frank Russell, senior  [...] public must be positive and supportive.

The inherent contradiction of the Western Metanarrative permits the atrocities of Enlightenment and Manifest Destiny by rationalizing the benefits. It is this complacency, however, which makes global violence both possible and inevitable – this means the K is a prerequisite to halting the imperial march of Pax Americana

William Spanos, Distinguished Professor of English and comparative literature at Binghamton University “America's shadow: an anatomy of empire,” 2000.

The "qualification" might  [...] its fulfilled technological/instrumental phase.

This is why the plan should be a question of ontology – the American character is infested with the desire to kill, and the killing of Native Americans makes all other killing possible – ignoring the K is the root cause of all war 

Paul Street, author, March 11, 2004.
[“Those Who Deny the Crimes of the Past Reflections on American Racist Atrocity Denial, 1776-2004,” http://thereitis.org/displayarticle242.html]

It is especially important to appreciate  [...] and motive to do so. 

Lack of decolonization will result in our eventual extinction it is try or die with the alternative 

Churchill, 99
WARD CHURCHILL,  TITLE:A Breach of Trust: The Radioactive Colonization of Native North America  SOURCE: American Indian Culture and Research Journal 23 no4 1999

 It is worth observing that  [...] the possibility of life itself.

GBTL: Framework 2NC

Our interpretation: the winner of this debate should be whoever advocates the best ontology

First our offense – 

A) It’s a gateway – the assumption of certain types of being-as-such is the entire starting point for political query – if you have a false understanding of the problem, your solution will fail

Michael Dillon, Professor of Politics, University of Lancaster, MORAL SPACES, 1999, p. 97-8.

As Heidegger—himself an especially  [...] to be technocrats of decision making. 

Independently, the Alternative sparks global decolonization movements that are critical to averting environmental collapse and extinction

George E. Tinker, Iliff School of Technology, 1996
[Defending Mother Earth: Native American Perspectives on Environmental Justice, ed. Jace Weaver, p. 171-72]

My suggestion that we take the  [...] of all may depend on it.   

Case

Free Market CP

We will concede the counterplan isn’t competitive but the aff doesn’t get to advocate the perm.  
Squo is solving our tech bubble turns-
The private industry is already the driving force behind current SMR development—that’s our Spencer ev
SMR interest high
Rysavy et al ‘10–
partner with the law firm of K&L Gates LLP and has over 15 years of legal experience with the nuclear industry (Rysavy, Charles F.  Stephen K. Rhyne. Roger P. Shaw. "SMALL MODULAR REACTORS", April, 2010. http://apps.americanbar.org/environ/committees/nuclearpower/newsletter/Apr10/NuclearPower_Apr10.pdf)

Most of the new generation nuclear  [...] news/ 8782.htm).

There are customers and certification coming now
Rysavy et al ‘10
– partner with the law firm of K&L Gates LLP and has over 15 years of legal experience with the nuclear industry (Rysavy, Charles F.  Stephen K. Rhyne. Roger P. Shaw. "SMALL MODULAR REACTORS", April, 2010. http://apps.americanbar.org/environ/committees/nuclearpower/newsletter/Apr10/NuclearPower_Apr10.pdf)

According to the International Atomic Energy  [...] license reviews for SMR designs.

Coming online now – liability decreased
Holt ‘8
- Policy Analyst for the Public Utility Research Center at the University of Florida AND* Sotkiewicz is the Senior Economist at the PJM Interconnection AND* Berg is a Distinguished Service Professor (Economics) and the former Director of PURC at the University of Florida (Holt, Lynne. Paul Sotkiewicz. Sanford Berg.Spring, 2008. “(WHEN) TO BUILD OR NOT TO BUILD?: THE ROLE OF UNCERTAINTY IN NUCLEAR POWER EXPANSION”. 3 Tex. J. Oil Gas & Energy L. 174)

Section 1703 of EPACT 2005 authorizes  [...] damages to people and property.

Econ

Surprise expenses prevent nuclear power generation from lowering electricity prices.
Hultman, ‘7
[Nathan, assistant professor of science, technology, and international affairs  Georgetown, visiting fellow at the James Martin Institute for Science and Civilization  Oxford, “What History Can Teach Us about the Future Costs of U.S. NUCLEAR POWER,” Environmental Science and Technology, http://rael.berkeley.edu/sites/default/files/old-site-files/2007/HultmanetalNuclearViewpoint2007.pdf]

Despite these goals, past experience  [...] power clearly demonstrates this possibility.

That outweighs any small decrease in electricity generation.
Levi, ‘6
[Michael, Senior Fellow for Energy and Environment and Director of the Program on Energy Security and Climate Change  Council on Foreign Relations, New Republic, 4-18,  “Wasted Energy,” http://www.cfr.org/publication/10473/wasted_energy.html]

Moore claims to refute those who  [...] costs less than bus fare). 

More ev  studies prove.
Hultman, ‘7
[Nathan, assistant professor of science, technology, and international affairs  Georgetown, visiting fellow at the James Martin Institute for Science and Civilization  Oxford, “What History Can Teach Us about the Future Costs of U.S. NUCLEAR POWER,” Environmental Science and Technology, http://rael.berkeley.edu/sites/default/files/old-site-files/2007/HultmanetalNuclearViewpoint2007.pdf]

What do the historical record of  [...] enjoy other forms of public subsidy.

Warming 

Other countries’ emissions increases outweigh—we can’t control increased coal use across the world and it’s far more than anything we’d save through nuclear power—that’s Scheffran

China coal use overwhelms US cuts
Watts 12 (Jonathon, staff writer, 1/12/12, “China's renewables surge dampened by growth in coal consumption” The Guardian) http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/jan/12/china-renewable-energy-coal-consumption

China tripled its solar energy generating  [...] who fear restrictions on economic growth.

The aff will be swamped by China
Greenwise 10 (9/30/10, “Coal for Power Generation Is Still On The Increase—What Can Be Done?”) http://livinggreenandsavingenergy.com/coal-for-power-generation-is-still-on-the-increase%E2%80%94what-can-be-done.html

The use of coal for power  [...] -burning power plants in China.