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+Counterplan Text: Current nuclear reactors will switch nuclear reactors to thorium-based fuels. |
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+Hadhazy '14 |
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+Adam Hadhazy, "Why Aren't We Using Thorium in Nuclear Reactors?" Discover Magazine. 5/7/2014. http://discovermagazine.com/2014/june/3-ask-discover |
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+It's certainly possible |
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+AND |
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+in its development. |
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+Thorium prevents accidental meltdowns. |
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+Warmflash (1) 15 |
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+David Warmflash, "Thorium Power is a Safer Nuclear Energy" Discover Magazine. 1/16/2015. |
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+To keep the process going, the U-233 must be created continuously by |
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+AND |
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+happens the hot liquid would all drain out and the reaction would stop. |
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+Thorium solves nuclear waste, mining accidents, and nuclear proliferation. Warmflash (2) 15 |
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+David Warmflash, "Thorium Power is a Safer Nuclear Energy" Discover Magazine. 1/16/2015. |
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+Thorium power has other attractions, too. Its production of nuclear |
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+AND |
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+-232, unless they had a robot to carry out the task. |
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+Thorium reactors can run indefinitely and safely dispose of nuclear waste, solves for the AC harms |
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+Mark Halper, 13 |
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+April 2013, Weinberg Foundation, "How thorium can solve the nuclear waste problem in conventional reactors", (We are a non-partisan, diverse group of people with one thing in common: we care deeply about the pivotal role of energy technology in stopping climate change and creating a better world. ), http://www.the-weinberg-foundation.org/2013/04/05/how-thorium-can-solve-the-nuclear-waste-problem-in-conventional-reactors/ |
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+Thorium mixed with plutonium and other actinide "waste" could continuously power modified conventional |
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+AND |
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+that forever – until the world runs out of thorium," notes Parks. |