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+====Counterplan Text: Countries should switch all existing nuclear reactors to liquid floride thorium reactors. Also solves prolif. Shapiro 15==== |
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+http://www.huffingtonpost.com/martin-shapiro/the-sum-of-a-nations-weal_b_7679862.html |
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+There is a constant world struggle between the energy HAVES and the HAVE-NOTS |
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+full and doesn't want to start over with a new nuclear fuel. |
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+====Liquid fluoride thorium reactors are safe, efficient, and minimally wasteful. **Hargraves and Moir '10** ==== |
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+Robert Hargraves, teaches energy policy at the Institute for Lifelong Education at Dartmouth, PhD in physics from Brown, and Ralph Moir, Sc.D. in nuclear engineering from MIT, published 10 papers on molten-salt reactors during his career at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, "Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactors: An old idea in nuclear power gets reexamined," American Scientist, Vol. 98, No. 4, July-August 2010, http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/feature/liquid-fluoride-thorium-reactors |
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+Liquid fuel thorium reactors offer an array of advantages in design, operation, safety |
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+200 million airplane per day, could be a model for LFTR production. |
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+====This would trigger key reductions in carbon emissions—that's essential to slow and reverse anthropogenic climate change. **Hargraves and Moir '11====** |
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+Robert Hargraves, teaches energy policy at the Institute for Lifelong Education at Dartmouth, PhD in physics from Brown, and Ralph Moir, Sc.D. in nuclear engineering from MIT, published 10 papers on molten-salt reactors during his career at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, "Liquid Fuel Nuclear Reactors," Physics and Society, January 2011, http://www.aps.org/units/fps/newsletters/201101/hargraves.cfm |
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+Burning coal for power is the largest source of atmospheric CO2, which drives global |
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+, ending 10 billion tons per year of CO2 emissions from coal plants. |