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- (Countries specified in the AC) ought to replace all current nuclear power plants with HTGRs and VHTRs. |
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-===Competition=== |
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-The CP is functionally competitive – the CP ends production of all nuclear power except for HTGRs which makes it plan minus. |
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-===Solvency Advocate=== |
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-====HTGRs solve the energy crisis and are safe and meltdown proof. ==== |
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-**PR Newswire, July 15th** |
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-X-Energy (X-energy is dedicated to developing transformational nuclear energy solutions that change the world. The company is designing the Xe-100 series), 7-15-2016, "X-energy CEO Addresses Industry on HTGR Reactor Advancement," PR Newswire, http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/x-energy-ceo-addresses-industry-on-htgr-reactor-advancement-300299355.html |
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-X-energy CEO Dr. Kam Ghaffarian addressed the nuclear industry at the Nuclear |
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-oil refining) that require steam temperatures beyond the capabilities of conventional nuclear. |
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-===Net Benefit=== |
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-====HTGRs can contribute to stopping global warming while providing as much energy as a gas-fired generator. ==== |
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-**Maize 13** |
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-**07/01/2013, Kennedy Maize (executive editor of Managing Power and a Power contributing editor), "The Beguiling Promise of the HTGR," POWER Magazine, http://www.powermag.com/the-beguiling-promise-of-the-htgr/** |
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-The claims of high-temperature gas-cooled reactor (HTGR) advocates are |
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-====HTGRs are safe and inert during accidents.==== |
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-**Maize 13** |
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-**07/01/2013, Kennedy Maize (executive editor of Managing Power and a Power contributing editor), "The Beguiling Promise of the HTGR," POWER Magazine, http://www.powermag.com/the-beguiling-promise-of-the-htgr/** |
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-The safety features begin with the fact that the reactor has a strong negative void |
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-characterized, and irradiated to demonstrate acceptable non-irradiated and irradiated properties." |
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-====High temperature reactors are proliferation resistant—the temperature makes potential fissile impossible to use. Moses ‘10==== |
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-**Very High-Temperature Reactor (VHTR) Proliferation Resistance and Physical Protection (PRandPP) August 2010 Prepared by David L. Moses** |
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-The key proliferation resistance feature of the VHTR fuel system is the fuel itself. |
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-would contain approximately two significant quantities (16 kilograms) of plutonium. |