Bilgi-Mitchell Aff

See Stothers and Williford for LFTRS.

Only difference is that we run Waste instead of Prolif

Advantage 2 is Waste

LFTR waste is less radioactive, decays way faster, and is easily stored

Sorensen 12 – Kirk, Founder and Chief Technologist at Flibe Energy, Grad student in Nuclear Engineering, former Chief Nuclear Technologist at Teledyne Brown Engineering
~[July, "Response to Oliver Tickell’s Anti-Thorium Article" http://energyfromthorium.com/tickell-rebuttal-jul-2012/~~]gw
The significance of elimination of long-lived actinides/transuranics from the waste stream
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waste streams is perhaps the most significant differentiator over legacy spent nuclear fuel.

LFTRs can re-use current nuclear waste, reducing the amount needed to be stored

Sorensen 12 – Kirk, Founder and Chief Technologist at Flibe Energy, Grad student in Nuclear Engineering, former Chief Nuclear Technologist at Teledyne Brown Engineering
~[July, "Response to Oliver Tickell’s Anti-Thorium Article" http://energyfromthorium.com/tickell-rebuttal-jul-2012/~~]gw
LFTRs would not be configured to directly consume waste fuel from conventional reactors, but
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reducing the long-term geologic storage requirements for legacy spent nuclear fuel.

Yucca Mountain is inevitable – fukushima fears, state pressure and lawsuits push adoption

Tollefson 11 (Jeff, former Knight fellow in science journalism at MIT,  "Battle of Yucca Mountain rages on", Nature, Vol. 473, No. 266, 5-19-11, RSR)rmm

By then, however, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) was in the
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department. NRC officials say the commissioners are still deliberating on the issue. 

LFTRs generate less waste and prevent the opening of Yucca Mountain

Hargraves 12 – Robert, teaches Energy Policy at the Institute for Lifelong Education at Dartmouth College, PhD in physics from Brown University
~[July, "THORIUM energy cheaper than coal"~]gw
Less geological storage is needed for LFTR waste. LFTR reduces nuclear waste storage issues
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1000 that from PWRs. Geological repositories smaller than Yucca mountain would suffice. 

Yucca Mountain disposal risks creating a nuclear volcano

New Scientist 2
~[http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg17523571.300-yucca-mountain-could-become-nuclear-volcano.html~~]gw
IF A volcano ever erupted beneath the planned nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain in
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published in Geophysical Research Letters (DOI: 10.1029/2002GL014665). 

Extinction

AetherPress Accessed 9
~[http://www.aetherpress.com/news.htm~~]gw
The planned Yucca mountain nuclear waste storage represents an unprecedented hazard for humanity. The
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, and may as well be the grandest disaster precipitated by our species.  

Yucca is inevitable – too unpopular in Congress,  perceived as costly and dangerous

Baram 11 – Marcus, Senior Editor at The Huffington Post, former reporter/producer for ABC News, Associate News Editor at Wall Street Journal, and News Editor at New York Observer
~[5/13, "Where Do We Store Nuclear Waste? Solution Could Cost Billions, Take 20 Years, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/05/13/watchdog_n_861547.html~~]ecl
The controversy over President Obama’s decision to pull the plug on the decades-long
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its license application for the repository, reports the Bureau of National Affairs.

Federal government forces indigenous people to accept dumping or move because they have no way to resist

Murphy 10 – Meghan A., writing in Social Eyes, Boston College’s sociology journal
~[Fall 2010, "Environmental Exploitation of Indigenous and Minority People"; Social Eyes, Issue 2, http://www.bc.edu/content/dam/files/schools/cas_sites/sociology/pdf/2SocialEyes.pdf~~%23page=52~~]ecl
Native American reservations are often targeted for nuclear waste dumps by the federal government and
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susceptible to farming pesticides and fecal bacteria from animal waste (Mascarenhas 2008). 

Environmental genocide on Native American lands perpetuates "human sacrifice zones" and threatens all aspects of Native American life

Hooks 4 – Gregory and Chad L., Washington State University Department of Sociology Chair %26 Smith, Texas State University Sociology Professor
~["The Treadmill of Destruction: National Sacrifice Areas and Native Americans",  American Sociological  Review, Vol. 60, No. 4, p.562, August 2004~]ecl
Some Indian lands have suffered such severe and prolonged environmental degradation that it is beyond
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and cultural welfare. (U.S. Department of Defense 2001). 

Rejecting racism is a moral imperative which outweighs all other impacts – conflict and destruction are inevitable within a society which allows it.

Menmi 2000 – Albert, Professor Emeritus of Sociology at U of Paris, Naiteire
~[Racism, transl. Steve Martinot, p. 165~]ecl
Of course, this is debatable. There are those who think that if one
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. True, it is a wager, but the stakes are irresistible.