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+Counter-Plan Text: Countries ought to prohibit all production of nuclear power except exploratory liquid-fluoride thorium reactors to process and use remaining stores of Uranium 233 |
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+Department of Energy. "EM Plan Accelerates Uranium-233 Disposal, Saves Taxpayers Half Billion Dollars." Energy.gov. N.p., 1 Aug. 2012. Web. 17 Sept. 2016. |
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+For more than 50 years, the uranium-233 (U-233) |
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+Laboratory, and Savannah River Site and Waste Isolation Pilot Plant. |
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+The U233 in storage represents a huge opportunity for scientific, monetary and medicinal gain. |
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+Sorenson 12 Kirk. "Why Should We Save the Uranium-233?" Thorium. N.p., 04 Dec. 2012. Web. 09 Sept. 2016. Flibe Energy co-founder Kirk Sorensen has a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from Utah State University, a master's degree in aerospace engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology, and a master's degree in nuclear engineering from the University of Tennessee. He worked at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center from 2000 to 2010, followed by a year at Teledyne Brown Engineering in Huntsville, Alabama as Chief Nuclear Technologist until he left to found Flibe Energy in 2011. |
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+I have appealed many times on this blog to our public leaders to |
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+lives. Please appeal to your congressional leadership to save this precious resource. |