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Cont. 1 – Inherency
Contention 1 is inherency
New DOE grants develop prototypes but don’t solve commercialization
Wald, 11-21
Matt, Help for Small Nuclear Reactors, Green, 11-21-12, http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/11/21/help-for-small-nuclear-reactors/
The Energy Department, seeking …enthusiasm for trying a different route.
Cont. 2 – Adv 1
Contention 2 is China
Chinese regional nuclear exports are thriving based on a decline in US development. Strong US SMR market is key to checking China’s dominance.
Cullinane, 11
Scott, graduate student at the Institute of World Politics, America Falling Behind: The Strategic Dimensions of Chinese Commercial Nuclear Energy, The Journal of Energy Security, 9-28-2011, http://www.ensec.org/index.php?option=com_contentandview=articleandid=319:america-falling-behind-the-strategic-dimensions-of-chinese-commercial-nuclear-energyandcatid=118:contentandItemid=376
Due to a confluence of events the … efforts on both sides of the Pacific to shape the 21st century.
Providing a viable alternative to China’s influence in Asia is key to stability in the Pacific.
Auslin, 11
Michael, resident scholar at AEI, Build, hold, and clear: an American strategy for Asia, American Enterprise Institute, 8-15-2011, http://www.aei.org/article/foreign-and-defense-policy/regional/asia/build-hold-and-clear-an-american-strategy-for-asia/
Ultimately, the U.S. must be … as any other nation.
Asian instability leads to great power war.
Khalilzad, 11
Zalmay, The Economy and National Security, National Review, 2-8-2011, http://www.nationalreview.com/blogs/print/259024
Today, economic and fiscal trends pose … dangerous era of multi-polarity.
That goes nuclear.
Walton, 9
C. Dale, Lecturer in International Relations and Strategic Studies at the University of Reading, 2007, Geopolitics and the Great Powers in the 21st Century, p. 49
Obviously, it is of vital importance …t marked by close great power alliances.
AND, Chinese exports have massive safety issues that will lead to terror, proliferation and meltdowns.
Tu, 12
Kevin, SENIOR ASSOCIATE ENERGY AND CLIMATE PROGRAM, China’s Nuclear Crossroads, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, March 11, 2012, http://carnegieendowment.org/2012/03/11/china-s-nuclear-crossroads
It’s first important to acknowledge …energy-thirsty China can’t afford to make.
Reactor meltdowns cause extinction
Gonçalves, 2001 (Eduardo, environmental researcher, author of the reports Broken Arrow - Greenham Common's Secret Nuclear Accident and Nuclear Guinea Pigs - British Human Radiation Experiments, published by CNL) (UK), “The Secret Nuclear War,” Ecologist, April)
But could radiation really be to … requires a new word to describe it: omnicide.
US is key – domestic SMR set the conditions for global development.
Ferguson, 10
Charles, President of the Federation of American Scientists, Adjunct Professor in the Security Studies Program at Georgetown University and an Adjunct Lecturer in the National Security Studies Program at the Johns Hopkins University, before the House Committee on Science and Technology for the hearing on Charting the Course for American Nuclear Technology: Evaluating the Department of Energy’s Nuclear Energy Research and Development Roadmap , May 19, 2010, http://gop.science.house.gov/Media/hearings/full10/may19/Ferguson.pdf
Given the differences in design philosophy …, operation, and ultimate disposal.”
Plan results in exports
Rosner and Goldberg 11
Robert Rosner, Stephen Goldberg, Energy Policy Institute at Chicago, The Harris School of Public Policy Studies, November 2011, SMALL MODULAR REACTORS –KEY TO FUTURE NUCLEAR POWER GENERATION IN THE U.S., https://epic.sites.uchicago.edu/sites/epic.uchicago.edu/files/uploads/EPICSMRWhitePaperFinalcopy.pdf
Previous studies have documented … reliable fuel services.
Cont. 3 – Adv 2
Contention 3 is the Workforce
A Construction hiatus is causing massive workforce shortages now – only long-term federal commitment solves the internal link to the workforce.
Unistar, 10
Unistar Issue Breif, Rebuilding the Nuclear Energy Workforce, a joint venture of Constellation Energy and EDF Group, “Rebuilding the Nuclear Energy Workforce,” http://www.unistarnuclear.com/IB/workforce.pdf
The decades-long hiatus in construction … will be available to fill the demand.
Lack of investment drives students away from the nuclear sciences – spills over to weapons labs and nuclear defenses.
APS, 8
Readiness of the U.S. Nuclear Workforce for 21 st Century Challenges A Report from the APS Panel on Public Affairs Committee on Energy and Environment June 2008http:www.aps.org/policy/reports/popa-reports/upload/Nuclear-Readiness-Report-FINAL-2.pdf
The 21st century has brought a growing … and the number of university reactors has dwindled from 63 to 25 during essentially the same period.
SMR are key to lab reinvigoration – best opportunity for growth.
Domenici and Miller, 12
Pete and Warren, private consultant and a part time Research Professor at Texas A and M University, Maintaining U.S. Leadership in Global Nuclear Energy Markets, Energy and Infrastructure Program, Energy Project, July, 2012, http://bipartisanpolicy.org/sites/default/files/Leadership%20in%20Nuclear%20Energy%20Markets.pdf
We believe that progress currently … energy research and development investment.
Rebuilding US nuclear expertise is key to SSP, nuclear terror prevention and medical innovations.
Mtingwa, 9
Sezaki, served as chair of the POPA study on the Readiness of the U.S. Nuclear Workforce for 21st Century Challenges. He is an accelerator physicist and Senior Lecturer at MIT, Readiness of the U.S. Nuclear Workforce for 21st Century Challenges, From a Report of the APS Panel on Public Affairs, http://www.aps.org/units/fps/newsletters/200901/mtingwa.cfm
On another front, the tragedy of September 11, 2001, … and financially rewarding career paths.
Nuclear expertise is the vital link to stockpile management – nothing matters more.
Adams and Drell, 2k8
Marvin L., Professor of Nuclear Engineering, Texas AandM University, and Sidney D., a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University and a professor of theoretical physics (emeritus) at Stanford’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford University, Technical Issues in Keeping the Nuclear Stockpile Safe, Secure, and Reliable, October 2008, online http://www.lanl.gov/conferences/sw/2009/docs/technicalIssues-nwstockpile-oct08.pdf
The United States has … lasting and responsive deterrent.
Nuclear deterrence necessary to deter rogue states, CBW attacks, power challengers, and allied proliferation -- impact is extinction
Schneider, ‘8
Mark, a Senior Analyst with the National Institute for Public Policy, Before his retirement from the Department of Defense, Dr. Schneider served in a number of senior positions within the Office of Secretary of Defense for Policy including Principal Director for Forces Policy, Principal Director for Strategic Defense, Space and Verification Policy, Director for Strategic Arms Control Policy and Representative of the Secretary of Defense to the Nuclear Arms Control Implementation Commissions. He also served in the senior Foreign Service as a Member of the State Department Policy Planning Staff, the Professional Staff of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, the Department of Energy, the Energy Research and Development Administration and the Atomic Energy Commission. Prior to his government career, Dr. Schneider served as a Senior Political Scientist with the BMD Corporation, a policy analyst with the Stanford Research Institute and taught at the University of Southern California and California State University at Los Angeles, “The Future of the US Nuclear Deterrent” Comparative Strategy, July-September 2008, 27:4, p345-360
According to the Pentagon’s Quadrennial … constraints upon U.S. conventional capabilities.
Detection capabilities the best deterrent against nuclear terror and escalation.
Talmadge, 7
Professor International Relations and governemtn, George Washington University, Deterring a Nuclear 9/11, Spring, www.twq.com/07spring/docs/07spring_talmadge.pdf
Because terrorists lack return addresses, … in a nuclear attack on the United States.20
Nuclear terror is both likely and devastating – guarantees full scale nuclear retaliation.
Rhodes, 9
Richard, affiliate of the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University, Former visiting scholar at Harvard and MIT, and author of “The Making of the Atomic Bomb” which won the Pulitzer Prize in Nonfiction, National Book Award, and National Book Critics Circle Award. “Reducing the nuclear threat: The argument for public safety” http://www.thebulletin.org/web-edition/op-eds/reducing-the-nuclear-threat-the-argument-public-safety
The response was very different among nuclear … had nothing to do with those attacks in the name of sending a message.
Draws in Russia and China – the threat is existential.
Ayson ’10
Professor of Strategic Studies and Director of the Centre for Strategic Studies: New Zealand at the Victoria University of Wellington (Robert, “After a Terrorist Nuclear Attack: Envisaging Catalytic Effects,” Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, Volume 33, Issue 7, July, Available Online to Subscribing Institutions via InformaWorld
A terrorist nuclear attack, and even the use of nuclear … use of nuclear weapons by states has been the threat of nuclear retaliation
Plan Text
The plan: The United States federal government should enter into power purchase agreement for nuclear reactors under 300MW.
Cont. 4 – Solvency
Contention 4 is solvency
Cost-sharing is necessary but not sufficient to solve – government PPA are vital in transition the market from test level to full commercialization – prefer our comparative evidence from the DOE.
DOE, 12
A Strategic Framework for SMR Deployment, 2-24-12, http://www.ne.doe.gov/smrsubcommittee/documents/SMR%20Strategic%20Framework.pdf
Four Phases to Commercial Deployment Accomplishing these … to bolster this segment of the economy.
Federal aggregation and procurement of SMR power creates a competitive market and fosters expansion.
Rosner and Goldberg, 11
Robert and Stephen, Energy Policy Institute at Chicago The Harris School of Public Policy Studies, Energy Policy, William Wrather Distinguished Service Professor in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Institute at Chicago, 11-11-2011, https://epic.sites.uchicago.edu/sites/epic.uchicago.edu/files/uploads/EPICSMRWhitePaperFinalcopy.pdf
6.2 GOVERNMENT SPONSORSHIP OF MARKET … markets for SMR plants.
Plan builds economies of scale, spills over to the private sector and avoids links to politics.
Parenti, 10
Christian, The Big Green Buy: How Government's Purchasing Power Can Drive the Clean-Energy Revolution, Huffington Post, July 16, 2010, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/christian-parenti/the-big-green-buy-how-gov_b_648865.html
An overemphasis on … leverage money-saving deals.
No licensing delays – NRC is prepared it’s only a matter of making reactors economical
Jaczko, 8
Gregory, Commissioner U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission at the Edison Electric Institute - International Utility Conference London, United Kingdom March 10, 2008, “The Nuclear Option – A Perspective on U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Policy” http://pbadupws.nrc.gov/docs/ML0809/ML080920838.pdf
Right now the Congress has … built in the United States.
