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-==Thorium CP== |
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-====CP Text: The United States Federal Government Ought to ban all reactors except Thorium Reactors. ==== |
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-====Thorium reactors are the utmost favorable form of energy production in the future. ==== |
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-**Schaffer 13**"Abundant thorium as an alternative nuclear fuel: Important waste disposal and weapon proliferation advantages," No Publication, September 2013 http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0301421513003157 - Hebron AL |
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-The principal arguments for thorium rather than uranium as fuel for nuclear reactors are the |
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-amplifier approach warrants support provided affordable energetic proton accelerators are developed and demonstrated. |
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-====Competition: Mutually Exclusive - The AFF bans all Nuclear Energy Production which would include Thorium Reactors==== |
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-====Thorium Reactors Solve Proliferation. ==== |
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-**Warmflash 15** David Warmflash, 1-16-2015, "Thorium Power Is the Safer Future of Nuclear Energy," Crux, http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/crux/2015/01/16/thorium-future-nuclear-energy/~~#.WBUYIOErJsM – Hebron AL |
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-But perhaps the most salient benefit of thorium power, in our geopolitically dicey world |
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--232, unless they had a robot to carry out the task. |
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-====Thorium reactors are safe compared to normal reactors ==== |
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-**Warmflash 15** David Warmflash, 1-16-2015, "Thorium Power Is the Safer Future of Nuclear Energy," Crux, http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/crux/2015/01/16/thorium-future-nuclear-energy/~~#.WBUYIOErJsM – Hebron AL |
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-The isotope of thorium that's being studied for power is called Th-232. |
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-happens the hot liquid would all drain out and the reaction would stop. |
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-====We have Easy Access to Thorium.==== |
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-**Warmflash 15**David Warmflash, 1-16-2015, "Thorium Power Is the Safer Future of Nuclear Energy," Crux, http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/crux/2015/01/16/thorium-future-nuclear-energy/~~#.WBUYIOErJsM – Hebron AL |
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-Thorium would be easier to obtain than uranium. While uranium mines are enclosed underground and thus very dangerous for the miners, thorium is taken from open pits, and is estimated to be roughly three times as abundant as uranium in the Earth's crust. |
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-====Implementation Feasable, India Proves. They are on the shift to Thorium Cycle Reactors. ==== |
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-**IEA 15** "Technology Roadmap: Nuclear Energy." IEA Technology Roadmaps (n.d.): n. pag. 2015. Web. 8 Aug. 2016 – Hebron AL |
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-India has been developing nuclear energy technology since the 1950s, and its first reactor |
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-in India. Other drivers include enhanced energy security and local pollution concerns. |