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4		-== Part Three: Impacts ==
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7		-=== Adv. 1 – Ukraine ===
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10		-==== Ukraine set to massively increase nuclear power production. Wesolowsky 16 ====
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12		-Wesolowsky, 9/9/16 ~~[Tom, Radio Free Europe, "Thirty Years After Chernobyl, Ukraine Doubles Down On Nuclear Power", http://www.rferl.org/content/thirty-years-after-chernobyl-ukraine-doubles-down-nuclear-power/27539152.html, BJM~~]
13		-Nearly 30 years after Chernobyl spewed nuclear dust across Europe and sparked fears of fallout
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15		-billion euros ($89 billion) to upgrade its 58 nuclear power reactors.
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18		-==== Ukrainian reactors are uniquely susceptible to safety issues arising from their deteriorated capacity – also not conflict proof. ====
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20		-**Holovko, 5/18**/16 ~~[Iryna, Energy Post, "Time for Europe to stop supporting Ukraine’s risky nuclear power sector", http://www.energypost.eu/time-europe-stop-supporting-ukraines-risky-nuclear-power-sector/, BJM~~]
21		-Three decades after the Chernobyl catastrophe and five years after the Fukushima disaster, Europe
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23		-distribution grids, could effectively make Ukraine’s outdated nuclear energy array completely redundant.
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26		-==== Ukraine meltdown larger than Chernobyl and Fukushima – crews can’t resolve the meltdown ====
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28		-**Energy News**, 4/15/**14** ~~["Former US Official: War in Ukraine could cause disaster worse than Chernobyl and Fukushima — Situation "calls for far greater global concern" — Multiple scenarios result in meltdown — Foreign Minister: "Potential threat to many nuclear facilities", http://enenews.com/former-us-official-war-in-ukraine-could-cause-disaster-worse-than-chernobyl-and-fukushima-situation-calls-for-far-greater-global-concern-multiple-scenarios-result-in-meltdown-foreign-mini, BJM~~]
29		-Ukraine confronts a nuclear specter of a different kind ~~[than Chernobyl,~~] the possibility
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31		--fire ~~[...~~] failure to prepare for the worst is not an option.
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34		-==== Meltdowns risk the globe ====
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36		-**Sief**, 10/10/**2014** ~~[Baltimore Post Examiner, "Nuclear War threat from Ukraine crisis threatens world, Nobel Peace Laureate warns", http://baltimorepostexaminer.com/nuclear-war-threat-ukraine-crisis-threatens-world-nobel-peace-laureate-warns/2014/10/10, BJM~~]
37		-Caldicott also warned that another flare up of the civil war in Ukraine could threaten
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39		-) It takes only 10 pounds of plutonium to make a nuclear weapon."
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42		-**====The impact is extinction – one reactor is enough. Lendman 11====**
43		-Lendman 11 (Stephen, Research Associate of the Centre for Research on Globalization, 03/ 13, "Nuclear Meltdown in Japan,", The People’s Voice http://www.thepeoplesvoice.org/TPV3/Voices.php/2011/03/13/nuclear-meltdown-in-japan, accessed 8-2-12)
44		-Reuters said the 1995 Kobe quake caused $100 billion in damage, up to
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46		-entire region. "It could be, literally, an apocalyptic event.
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49		-=== Adv. 2 – Belgium ===
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52		-==== Belgium massively boosted nuclear production in 2016 – new reactors online ====
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54		-**Independent Chemical Information Service, 8/10**/16 ~~["Improved nuclear availability to keep lid on Belgian electricity prices", http://www.icis.com/resources/news/2016/08/10/10024473/improved-nuclear-availability-to-keep-lid-on-belgian-electricity-prices/, BJM~~]
55		-Belgium has nuclear capacity of just under 6GW from seven reactors, accounting for just
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57		-be almost 2.3GW higher in 2016 than it was in 2015.
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60		-==== Countries fear Belgium’s old reactors – lots of faults. Boelpaep 16 ====
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62		-Bruno Boelpaep 2/2/16 ~~[Current BBC News Previous BBC News, British Broadcasting Corporation, Associated Press Education oxford house college~~] "Belgium’s ageing nuclear plants worry neighbours" BBC
63		-Just across the border, the German city of Aachen and the Dutch city of
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65		-nuclear reactors by 2022, Belgium appears to be taking the opposite course.
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68		-==== Belgian reactors prove that aged reactors are targets for terrorists and proliferation. Greco 16 ====
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70		-Emily Schwartz Greco 2016 ~~[Institute’s op-ed manager and ran OtherWords. OtherWords is a non-profit editorial service that distributes progressive commentary and cartoons to approximately 1,700 editors at newspapers and new media outlets across the nation. She is also an OtherWords weekly columnist. As a writing coach , she had trained a group of New Economy Maryland fellows to write more effectively for the public. Prior to coming to IPS in 2003, Emily covered foreign policy and economics in Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo, Brazil, as well as Washington and New York, for the Dow Jones and Bloomberg News services. She earned a M.S. in journalism from Columbia University and a B.A. in Latin American studies and history from the University of Texas at Austin.~~] "Reactors Put Us at Risk for Nuclear Terrorism" Institute for Policy Studies
71		-The ISIS supporters who attacked Brussels killed more than 30 people and injured hundreds more
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73		-based on reports of leaks and cracks, along with assorted sabotage attempts.
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76		-==== Nuclear terrorism causes extinction. Sid-Ahmed ’4 ====
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78		-~~[Mohamed, Sid-Ahmed - Al Ahram Weekly, Extinction! - D/L 7,12,09- Weekly Political Analyst - http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2004/705/op5.htm - 8/26/04 -~~]
79		-What would be the consequences of a nuclear attack by terrorists? Even if it
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81		-When nuclear pollution infects the whole planet, we will all be losers.