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4		-==== I affirm the resolution: Countries ought to prohibit the production of nuclear power ====
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6		-==== Since ought implies a moral obligation, I value morality. ====
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8		-==== The standard is maximizing expected wellbeing. ====
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12		-==== We must look to utilitarianism since the government is obligated to protect citizen interest. Goodin 95 ====
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14		-Robert E. Goodin. Philosopher of Political Theory, Public Policy, and Applied Ethics. Utilitarianism as a Public Philosophy. Cambridge University Press, 1995. p. 26-7
15		-The great adventure of utilitarianism as a guide to public conduct is that it avoids
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19		-thus understood is, I would argue, a uniquely defensible public philosophy.
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23		-==== Utilitarianism is axiomatically true because value stems from experienced wellbeing. Harris 10 ====
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25		-Sam Harris 2010. CEO Project Reason; PHD UCLA Neuroscience; BA Stanford Philosophy.  The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values."
26		-I believe that we will increasingly understand good and evil, right and wrong,
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29		-== Meltdowns ==
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33		-==== Nuclear meltdown are going to happen within the next decade ====
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35		-**Gesellschaft 12 **(Max-Planck-Gesellschaft: research society in Germany; "Severe nuclear reactor accidents likely every 10 to 20 years, European study suggests."; ScienceDaily; 22 May 2012; www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/05/120522134942.htm; DT)
36		-Catastrophic nuclear accidents such as the core meltdowns in Chernobyl and Fukushima are more likely
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40		-==== Nuclear disasters are coming – scientific studies prove that spent fuel fires are both likely and would have a much greater impact than Fukushima ====
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42		-**Stone 16** (This card cites research done at Princeton using mathematical calculations and computer programs in order to gauge probability and magniture. Richard Stone has a degree in biophysics from UPenn and has written for National Geographic and Smithsonian, http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/05/spent-fuel-fire-us-soil-could-dwarf-impact-fukushima, "Spent Fuel Fire on U.S. Soil Could Dwarf Impact of Fukushima", EmmieeM)
43		-A fire from spent fuel stored at a U.S. nuclear power plant
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47		-==== Nuclear meltdown would cause widespread deaths, long-term diseases, and permanent ecological damage ====
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49		-**Wasserman, 02 (**Harvey, American journalist, author, democracy activist, and advocate for renewable energy, author of The Last Energy War and co-author of Killing Our Own: The Disaster of America's Experience with Atomic Radiation, Spring, Earth Island Journal, http://www.earthisland.org/journal/index.php/eij/article/nuclear'power'and'terrorism/, "Nuclear Power and Terrorism" | ADM)
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53		-==== A nuclear accident costs hundreds of billions of dollars for taxpayers ====
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55		-Hargreaves 11
56		-(Steve Hargreaves, March 25 2011, Steve Hargreaves is co-director of the Energy Transition desk, which demonstrates the feasibility of shifting from fossil fuels to renewable energy through data, storytelling and building partnerships. Prior to joining Climate Nexus in 2015, he spent 11 years as a writer for CNNMoney, first as an energy reporter and later on the site’s economy desk and special projects team. While there, he won an enterprise award from the Society of American Business Editors and Writers for a series on the military’s efforts to reduce oil consumption, served as a panelist at a debate hosted by now Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz, and did on-air appearances as CNN's energy expert. Coverage highlights included reporting from an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico during the BP spill, covering the 20th World Petroleum Congress from Doha, Qatar, and spending several weeks in Detroit documenting efforts to revitalize that city. Before joining CNNMoney he spent two years writing from Bangkok and Istanbul, and was published in the Village Voice and the Australian Financial Review. He started his career at Casco Bay Weekly, an alternative newspaper in Portland, Maine, and later worked as a beat reporter at the Times Record, a small daily newspaper in neighboring Brunswick. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Environmental Studies and Sociology from St. Lawrence University., http://money.cnn.com/2011/03/25/news/economy/nuclear'accident'costs/, CNN Money, 8/8/16)
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59		-== Mining ==
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63		-==== Nuclear energy is expanding and this is forcing us to mine more uranium. ====
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65		-**Handley 13** (Meg: staff writer for US News; "Emerging Nations To Power Nuclear Energy Expansion Over Next Decade"; 3-25-2013; US News & World Report; http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2013/03/25/emerging-nations-to-power-nuclear-energy-expansion-over-next-decade; DT)
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69		-==== Uranium mining leads to an increase in above-ground radiation, which causes biodiversity loss ====
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71		-**Sullivan 13** (Sian Sullivan works for the Department of Geography, Environment, and Developmental Studies at the University of London, "After the Green Rush? Biodiversity Offsets, Uranium Power and the ‘Calculus of Causalities’ in Greening Growth, pg. 94, EmmieeM)
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75		-==== Biodiversity loss harms both environment and humans. ====
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77		-**Torres 16** (Phil is a graduate of Cornell University with degrees in Entomology and Biology; "Biodiversity Loss: An Existential Risk Comparable to Climate Change"; 5-20-2016; FLI - Future of Life Institute; http://futureoflife.org/2016/05/20/biodiversity-loss/; DT)
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80		-== Terror ==
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84		-==== Terrorist organizations have started targeting nuclear power plants for resources and attacks ====
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86		-**Rubin 16** (Alissa J. Rubin is an American journalist who covers the Middle East for the New York Times. She has won the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting. "Belgium Proves Nuclear Plants are Vulnerable", http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/26/world/europe/belgium-fears-nuclear-plants-are-vulnerable.html?'r=0, EmmieeM)
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90		-==== Nuclear power plants are extremely vulnerable to terrorist attacks and break-ins ====
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92		-**Holt and Andrews 14**
93		-Mark Holt and Anthony Andrews ~~[Specialists in Energy Policy~~]. Nuclear Power Plant Security and Vulnerabilities. Congressional Research Service. January 13, 2014. FZ.
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97		-==== The results to a terror attack on a nuclear power plant is devastating ====
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99		-**Caldicott 6**
100		-Helen Caldicott ~~[bestselling author, Nobel Peace Prize nominee~~]. Nuclear power is not the answer. The New Press. September 20, 2006. http~://tria.fcampalans.cat/images/Nuclear%20Power%20is%20not%20the%20answer%20-%20H.%20Caldicott.pdf. FZ.//
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104		-== Global warming ==
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108		-==== Banning nuclear power is key to get us away from unsustainable energy production that will result in catastrophe – nuclear power plants self-destruct and construction emits too much CO2 ====
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110		-**Covino 13** (K: independent journalist, BA in English, nuclear power researcher; "The Most Unsustainable Energy Source on Earth"; 6-11-2013; HubPages; http://hubpages.com/politics/Unsustainable-Nuclear; DT)
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114		-==== Warming would be catastrophic for our environment. ====
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116		-**Roberts 13 **(citing the World Bank Review’s compilation of climate studies)
117		-(David, "If you aren’t alarmed about climate, you aren’t paying attention" ~~[http://grist.org/climate-energy/climate-alarmism-the-idea-is-surreal/~~] January 10 //mtc)//
	1	+Note: my wiki is messed up so all the aff positions are under neg