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-First, fossil fuels fill the gap if nuclear power is banned. Kharecha and Hansen write: |
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-“Coal and Gas are Far More Harmful than Nuclear Power,” April, 2013. NASA. |
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-Pushker Kharecha, Columbia University, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies |
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-James Hansen, adjunct professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Columbia University |
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-http://www.giss.nasa.gov/research/briefs/kharecha_02/ |
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-The paper demonstrates... unit energy produced (ref. 2). |
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-Japan proves that a nuclear ban leads to a shift to coal. Baum writes: |
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-“Japan should restart more nuclear power plants,” October 20, 2015. The Bulletin. |
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-Seth Baum, executive director of the Global Catastrophic Risk Institute, a nonprofit think tank that Baum co-founded in 2011 that focuses on risk, ethics, and policy questions about major threats to human civilization, including nuclear war, global warming, and emerging technologies |
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-http://thebulletin.org/japan-should-restart-more-nuclear-power-plants8817 |
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-Turning off nuclear… than nuclear power. |
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-Second is the impact. The harms of coal are worse than the harms of nuclear power. Cohen writes: |
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-“Risks of Nuclear Power,” April 16, 1996. Idaho State University. |
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-Bernard L. Cohen, Sc.D. Professor at the University of Pittsburgh |
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-http://www.physics.isu.edu/radinf/np-risk.htm |
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-Risks from reactor... dangerous as coal burning. |
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-Coal plants disproportionately harm low income communities, linking the disad into my opponent’s structural violence framework. Israel: |
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-“The poor and minority communities bear most of the health burden from coal-fired power plants,” November 16, 2012. Scientific American. |
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-Brett Israel, writer for OurAmazingPlanet, has written for LiveScience, SPACE.com, Discover magazine, Environmental Health News, has a masters in journalism with an emphasis in science from New York University, has a degree in biochemistry and molecular biology from the University of Georgia |
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-http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/coal-plants-smother-communities-of-color/ |
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-Coal plants place... and other diseases. |