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+CP Text: The United States federal government should prohibit all nuclear power except floating Small Modular Nuclear Reactors. |
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+Accidents |
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+SMRs are safe—no risk of accidents—use of pre-existing technology from offshore drilling and nuclear submarines mean fast development. |
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+Chandler 14 |
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+David L. Chandler, MIT News Office, The paper was co-authored by NSE students Angelo Briccetti, Jake Jurewicz, and Vincent Kindfuller; Michael Corradini of the University of Wisconsin; and Daniel Fadel, Ganesh Srinivasan, Ryan Hannink, and Alan Crowle of Chicago Bridge and Iron, based in Canton, Mass, The MIT Energy Initiative (MITei) is MIT's hub for research, education, campus energy management and outreach programs that cover all areas of energy supply and demand, security, and environmental impact, “Floating Nuclear Plants Could Ride Out Tsunamis”, http://theenergycollective.com/energyatmit/369266/floating-nuclear-plants-could-ride-out-tsunamis, April 17, 2014 KF |
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+When an earthquake and ... the answers are realistic.” |
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+Warming |
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+SMRs solve- DOE engagement key- collapse of nuclear industry means warming inevitable |
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+Licata 14 |
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+John Licata (Founder and Chief Energy Strategist of Blue Phoenix Inc, Motley Fool) April 27 2014 “Can Small Modular Nuclear Reactors Find Their Sea Legs?”, http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2014/04/27/can-small-modular-nuclear-reactors-find-their-sea.aspx |
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+Nuclear power plants ... get buried at sea. |
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+SMRs are critical to reducing emissions and preventing catastrophic global warming. |
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+Cohen 2012 |
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+Armond, Executive Director, Clean Air Task Force, 2-13, “Decarbonization: The Nuclear Option,” http://energy.nationaljournal.com/2012/02/is-america-poised-for-nuclear.php?print=trueandprintcomment=2161670 |
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+Three years ago, MIT’s ... be left off the table. |
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+Nuclear’s inevitable globally but won’t solve warming until the US develops SMR’s. |
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+Lovering et al 2012 |
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+Michael, – et al and Ted Nordhaus—co-founders of American Environics and the Breakthrough Institute a think tank that works on energy and climate change – AND – Jesse Jenkins-Director of Energy and Climate Policy, the Breakthrough Institute, Why We Need Radical Innovation to Make New Nuclear Energy Cheap, 9/11, thebreakthrough.org/index.php/programs/energy-and-climate/new-nukes/ |
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+Arguably, the biggest impact ... nothing is more important than developing the |
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+Heg |
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+SMRs solve competitiveness. |
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+Fleischmann 11 |
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+Chuck, Representative from the 3rd District in Tennessee, “Small Modular Reactors Could Help With U.S. Energy Needs”, American Physical Society, Vol. 6, No. 2, http://www.aps.org/publications/capitolhillquarterly/201110/backpage.cfm, October 2011. KF |
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+The timely implementation... in the nuclear arena. |
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+Soft power is key to solving pandemics, economic catastrophe, and nuclear war. |
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+Nye and Armitage 7 |
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+Joseph Nye (University Distinguished Service Professor at Harvard University, and previous dean of Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government) and Richard Armitage (13th United States Deputy Secretary of State, the second-in-command at the State Department, serving from 2001 to 2005), “CSIS Reports – A Smarter, More Secure America”, 11/6, 2007 http://www.csis.org/component/option,com_csis_pubs/task,view/id,4156/type,1/ |
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+Soft power is the ability ... the enemy’s will to fight. |
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+Nuclear war. |
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+Khalilzad 11 |
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+Zalmay Khalilzad, Counselor at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, served as the United States ambassador to Afghanistan, Iraq, and the United Nations during the presidency of George W. Bush, served as the director of policy planning at the Defense Department during the Presidency of George H.W. Bush, holds a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago, 2011 (“The Economy and National Security,” National Review, February 8th, Available Online at http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/print/259024, Accessed 02-08-2011 KF |
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+Today, economic and fiscal ... in their regions. |