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+====Japanese plutonium stockpiles fuel instability and prolif in japan==== |
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+Shaun Burnie et al 16, Frank Barnaby, with Tom Clements, Aileen Mioko Smith and Kendra Ulrich “Nuclear Proliferation in Plain Sight: Japan’s Plutonium Fuel Cycle–A Technical and Economic Failure But a Strategic Success”, The Asia-Pacific Journal, 1 March 2016, BE |
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+Five years after the March 11th 2011 earthquake and tsunami destroyed four reactors at the |
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+AND |
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+time for a rethink, long past, is more urgent than ever. |
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+====Japan’s stockpile makes China question its intentions and sets a harmful international precedent—using that plutonium on NUCLEAR POWER and not letting it stockpile is KEY to solve China relations and stop the spread of nuclear weapons globally.==== |
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+Seth Baum 15, Executive Director, Global Catastrophic Risk Institute “Japan should restart more nuclear power plants”, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, October 2015, BE |
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+No accounting of nuclear power risks would be complete without considering the possibility that it |
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+AND |
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+and set a good example, helping to decrease global nuclear weapons risk. |
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+====Tensions in the region boil over—China fear of Japan incentivizes nuclear attacks as a means of intimidation—that draws in the US and causes nuclear war.==== |
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+Robert Ayson 14 – Victoria University of Wellington Desmond Ball – Australian National University, “Escalation in North Asia: A Strategic Challenge for Australia”, Australian National University, November 2014, BE |
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+A number of near misses in the last year and a half have illustrated the |
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+AND |
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+based nuclear systems. This is also a perverse incentive to nuclear escalation. |