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+Nuclear power plants are vulnerable to attacks – causes huge blackouts that devastate the economy. |
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+Sovacool and Cooper 8 Benjamin Sovacool (Research Fellow in the Energy Governance Program at the Centre on Asia and Globaliaztion, part of the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore, adjunct professor at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University) and Christopher Cooper (Principal Partner for Oomph Consulting, LLC, former Executive Director of the Network for New Energy Choices) “Nuclear Nonsense: Why Nuclear Power is No Answer to Climate Change and the World's Post- Kyoto Energy Challenges” William and Mary Environmental Law and Policy Review Volume 33 Issue 1 Article 2 2008 h p://scholarship.law.wm.edu/wmelpr/vol33/iss1/2 JW |
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+G. Security Nuclear plants ... must be stored onsite." ° |
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+US is key to global economy; growth solves multiple existential threats. |
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+Haass 13 Richard (President of the Council on Foreign Relations) “The World Without America” April 30th 2013 http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/repairing-the-roots-of-american-power-by-richard-n~-~-haass |
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+Let me posit ... the planet’s inhabitants. |
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+Nuclear facilities allow terrorists to acquire plutonium—they can make nukes and dirty bombs. |
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+Sovacool and Cooper 8 Benjamin Sovacool (Research Fellow in the Energy Governance Program at the Centre on Asia and Globaliaztion, part of the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore, adjunct professor at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University) and Christopher Cooper (Principal Partner for Oomph Consulting, LLC, former Executive Director of the Network for New Energy Choices) “Nuclear Nonsense: Why Nuclear Power is No Answer to Climate Change and the World's Post- Kyoto Energy Challenges” William and Mary Environmental Law and Policy Review Volume 33 Issue 1 Article 2 2008 h p://scholarship.law.wm.edu/wmelpr/vol33/iss1/2 JW |
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+3. Fissile Material Availability ... nuclear weapons proliferation.562 |
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+That’s the most likely existential threat. |
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+Rhodes 9 Richard (a visiting scholar at Harvard and MIT, and currently he is an affiliate of the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University. Rhodes is the author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb (1986), which won the Pulitzer Prize in Nonfiction, National Book Award, and National Book Critics Circle Award) “Reducing the nuclear threat: The argument for public safety” December 14th 2009 JW |
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+The response was ... sending a message. |