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+Text: All countries should ban the production of nuclear power in all forms except for liquid fluoride thorium reactors. |
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+Mutually exclusive from the aff- they ban all nuclear power production- we ban everything except for nuclear power production using thorium fueled reactors- means perm would be severance which is a voting issue for fairness and education: makes aff a moving target and skews neg time and strategy if they can shift the aff after the 1AC |
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+Thorium Reactors solves all problems with nuclear power- nuke prolif, nuclear waste, nuke meltdowns, and safety- also solves laundry list of other problems with conventional nuke power and solves warming |
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+Warmflash 15 Warmflash, David. David is an astrobiologist and science writer. He received his M.D. from Tel Aviv University Sackler School of Medicine, and has done post doctoral work at Brandeis University, the University of Pennsylvania, and the Johnson Space Center, where he was part of the NASA's first cohort of astrobiology training fellows. He has been involved in science outreach for more than a decade and since 2002 has collaborated with The Planetary Society on studying the effects of the space environment on small organisms. "Thorium Power Is the Safer Future of Nuclear Energy."Discover Magazine. Kalmbach Publishing Co., 16 Jan. 2015. Web. 26 Aug. 2016. http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/crux/2015/01/16/thorium-future-nuclear-energy/#.V8CsjCgrLb0. |
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+Nuclear power has long been a contentious topic. It generates huge amounts of electricity |
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+AND |
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+-232, unless they had a robot to carry out the task. |
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+Warming is anthropogenic and causes extinction |
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+Adams 16 ~-~-- has a degree in agriculture and cites studies done by NASA and the IPCC |
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+(Andrew, Prince George Citizen, 4/16/16, “There is no debating scientific facts,” http://www.princegeorgecitizen.com/opinion/columnists/there-is-no-debating-scientific-facts-1.2229437) |
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+Last week I wrote about the signs of early spring and put a few jabs |
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+AND |
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+watching conspiracy theories?" P.s. The Earth is not flat. |
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+Meltdowns cause extinction |
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+Adams 11 (Mike, outspoken consumer health advocate, award-winning investigative journalist, internet activist and science lab director, “Solar flare could unleash nuclear holocaust across planet Earth, forcing hundreds of nuclear power plants into total meltdowns”, 7/13/11, Accessed 8/10/2016) |
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+Fukushima was one power plant. Imagine the devastation of 100+ nuclear power plants |
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+AND |
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+planet? It's a very, very small fraction of the total population. |
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+Nuke Prolif causes extinction |
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+Kissinger et al 11 (Shultz was secretary of state from 1982 to 1989. Mr. Perry was secretary of defense from 1994 to 1997. Mr. Kissinger was secretary of state from 1973 to 1977. Mr. Nunn is former chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee (“Deterrence in the Age of Nuclear Proliferation: The doctrine of mutual assured destruction is obsolete in the post‐Cold War era”, Wall Street Journal, March 7, 2011, http://www.nti.org/c_press/Deterrence_in_the_Age_of_Nuclear_Proliferation.pdf, ZBurdette, Accessed 8/14/2016) |
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+As long as there has been war, there have been efforts to deter actions |
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+AND |
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+are addressed. We must therefore redouble our efforts to resolve these issues. |