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Low natural gas prices and deficit concerns will stall nuclear power for foreseeable future.
Kitazume, 12
[Takashi, Staff Writer, Global demand for nuclear power remains high. The Japan Times, 7-17-2012, http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/nb20120717d1.html#.UAeeeLSe4to]
Meanwhile, the United States 

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and U.S. export of domestically produced natural gas, she said.

Natural Gas - 1AC

At current levels of consumption US will burn through available natural gas – dependence will leave the energy sector committed and with no alternatives.
Doran & Reed, 12
[Kevin & Adam, an institute fellow and assistant research professor at the Renewable and Sustainable Energy Institute & a research associate at RASEI. He researches and writes on the legal, policy, and regulatory issues surrounding the deployment of sustainable energy technologies, Environment 360, 8-13-2012, http://e360.yale.edu/feature/natural_gas_role_in_us_energy_endgame/2561/]

A full-throttle shift to a gas-dominated

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 by outcompeting renewables as the cheapest source of power.

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Spencer, 12
[Jack,  Research Fellow in Nuclear Energy at The Heritage Foundation's Roe Institute for Economic Policy Studies, The Foundry, 9-12-2012, http://blog.heritage.org/author/jspencer/]

Part of the answer can be found 

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effort geared toward relating to the federal government.
First scenario is growth. Inevitable price volatility hollows out the US industrial sector, global competitiveness and ensures recession – a mix based on a strong nuclear portfolio is key.
Bezdek & Wendling, 4
[Roger & Robert, Management Information Services Inc. in Washington, D.C, Public Utilities Fortnightly, April 2004, http://www.misi-net.com/publications/Case_Against_Gas_Dependence.pdf]

The manufacturing sector uses 40 

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serious effect of the current (and future) gas crisis.

Collapse of the US economy causes great power nuclear war
Khalilzad ’11 Zalmay was the United States ambassador to Afghanistan, Iraq, and the United Nations during the presidency of George W. Bush and the director of policy planning at the Defense Department from 1990 to 1992, “ The Economy and National Security”, 2-8-11, http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/print/259024, CMR

Today, economic and fiscal trends 

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make aggressive moves in their regions.
AND, sustainable growth key to prevent extinction
Goklany ‘7 – PhD, science and tech policy analyst for the US Dept of the Interior
Indur M, M.S. and Ph.D are from Michigan State University, “the improving state of the world”, page number below in [brackets], CMR

Thanks to the cycle of progress, 

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 expand current limits to growth.
SMRs level energy costs and insulate from inevitable gas price spikes.
Lamonica, 12
[Martin, A Glut of Natural Gas Leaves Nuclear Power Stalled, Technology Review, 8-9-2012, http://www.technologyreview.com/news/428737/a-glut-of-natural-gas-leaves-nuclear-power/]

Even in United States, of course,

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 basket because of the new kid on the block called shale gas."

Next is Methane. Natural gas boom releases tons of methane into the atmosphere – significantly increasing pace climate change.
Tollefson, 12
[Jeff, came to Nature from Congressional Quarterly, where he covered energy, climate and the environment for two years. Before that he was a Knight fellow in science journalism at MIT; a science reporter at the Santa Fe New Mexican, where he covered Los Alamos and the national labs, Air sampling reveals high emissions from gas field, Nature, 2-7-2012, http://www.nature.com/news/air-sampling-reveals-high-emissions-from-gas-field-1.9982]

When US government scientists 

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by regulating emissions from the gas fields.
Methane release collapses the Asian monsoon – leads to nuclear war.
Robertson, 9
[JE, Department of Oceanography, Southampton Oceanography Centre, University of Southampton, Global Climate Destabilization is Major Security & Economic Threat, http://www.casavaria.com/hotspring/2009/03/227/global-climate-destabilization-is-major-security-economic-threat/] 

The new administration in Washington, DC, 

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dependent on the monsoons.
Finally, grid security. Gas dominance locks everything else out of the market – nuclear is key to maintaining diversity.
Hart, 12
[Kathleen, Duke CEO warns against 'all gas, all the time' for electric generation, SNL, April 11, 2012, http://www.snl.com/Interactivex/article.aspx?CdId=A-14623524-13105]
Warning against the use of 

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last two decades has been gas."
Nuclear power is the vital link in base load generation – without it the entire electrical system grinds to a halt.
NEI, 3
[Nuclear Energy Institute, The Importance of Nuclear Energy to U.S. Energy Security, Fact Sheet, January 2003, http://heartland.org/sites/all/modules/custom/heartland_migration/files/pdfs/14419.pdf]

Energy Security Critical to National 

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increases for heating or air conditioning.
That’s ball game.
Rifkin, 2
[Jeremy, The founder and president of the Foundation on Economic Trends, Fellow at the Wharton School’s Executive Education Program, The Hydrogen Economy: The Creation of the World-Wide Energy Web and the Redistribution of Power on Earth, p.163-164]

It is understandable that 

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would come to an end.
Leadership - 1AC
US nuclear leadership is in demise locking-out US influence in emerging safety and non-proliferation – federal action is vital to restore US influence.
Wallace & Williams, 12
[Michael & Sarah, a member of the National Infrastructure Advisory Council (NIAC), which advises the president on matters related to homeland security. He is also a member of the Nuclear Sector Coordinating Council under the Department of Homeland Security’s National Infrastructure Protection Plan and a member of Business Executives for National Security (BENS), the Naval Historical Foundation Advisory Council, and the Marquette University College of Engineering National Advisory Council, Nuclear Energy in America: Preventing its Early Demise, 2012, Global Forecast, April 17, 2012, http://csis.org/publication/nuclear-energy-america-preventing-its-early-demise]
America’s nuclear energy industry

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 take action to prevent its early demise.
Civil nuclear leadership catalyzes nuclear non-proliferation – EVEN IF – US remains a hegemon nuclear power leadership is key.
Begelsdorf, 7
[Harold, Principal with the consulting firm of Bengelsdorf, McGoldrick, and Associates, held numerous senior positions in the U.S. government, including the Energy Department and its predecessor agencies, the State Department, and the U.S. Mission to the IAEA, American Council on Global Nuclear Competitiveness, THE U.S. DOMESTIC CIVIL NUCLEAR INFRASTRUCTURE AND U.S. NONPROLIFERATION POLICY, May 2007, White Paper, http://www.nuclearcompetitiveness.org/images/COUNCIL_WHITE_PAPER_Final.pdf]
If the United States hopes to continue

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 can be made mutually reinforcing. 

Proliferation risks extinction. It probably doesn’t reduce conventional war but the benefits don’t justify jacking with the human future.
Krieger ‘9  (David, Pres. Nuclear Age Peace Foundation and Councilor – World Future Council, “Still Loving the Bomb After All These Years”, 9-4, https://www.wagingpeace.org/articles/2009/09/04_krieger_newsweek_response.php?krieger)
Jonathan Tepperman’s article in the September 7, 2009 

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more rational than Mr. Tepperman?

Vibrant domestic industrial base key to influence over global safety.
Domenici & Miller, 12
[Pete & Warren, private consultant and a part time Research Professor at Texas A & 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]
Nuclear power technologies 

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disposal capabilities of their own. 

The plan: The United States federal government should enter into power purchase agreement for nuclear reactors under 150MW.
Solvency
Federal aggregation and procurement of SMR power creates a competitive market and fosters expansion.
Rosner & Goldberg, 11
[Robert & Stephen, Energy Policy Institute at Chicago The Harris School of Public Policy Studies, Energy Policy, William Wrather Distinguished Service Professor in Astronomy & 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 

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initial 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 breakthrough 

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leverage money-saving deals.
Focus on SMR rebuilds credit for nuclear energy.
Rosner & Goldberg, 11
[Robert & Stephen, Energy Policy Institute at Chicago The Harris School of Public Policy Studies, Energy Policy, William Wrather Distinguished Service Professor in Astronomy & Astrophysics, Institute at Chicago, 11-11-2011, https://epic.sites.uchicago.edu/sites/epic.uchicago.edu/files/uploads/EPICSMRWhitePaperFinalcopy.pdf]
According to a recent study 

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SMRs could potentially “fit the bill.” 

Sustainable SMR industry in the US is key to global leadership in nuclear power and reducing carbon emission – the plan doesn’t trade-off renewable.
Rosner & Goldberg, 11
[Robert & Stephen, Energy Policy Institute at Chicago The Harris School of Public Policy Studies, Energy Policy, William Wrather Distinguished Service Professor in Astronomy & Astrophysics, Institute at Chicago, 11-11-2011, https://epic.sites.uchicago.edu/sites/epic.uchicago.edu/files/uploads/EPICSMRWhitePaperFinalcopy.pdf]
As stated earlier, SMRs have 

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now rapidly emerging, China.