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+**Counterplan Text: Countries except the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Japan, India, and South Korea ought to prohibit the production of floating nuclear power. Those countries ought to use floating small modular reactors. The United States federal government ought to initiate power-purchase agreements of floating small modular reactors.** |
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+**Floating SMRs are safe – Chandler 14:** |
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+(David L. Chandler, MIT News Office, The paper was co-authored by NSE students Angelo Briccetti, Jake Jurewicz, and Vincent Kindfuller; Michael Corradini of the University of Wisconsin; and Daniel Fadel, Ganesh Srinivasan, Ryan Hannink, and Alan Crowle of Chicago Bridge and Iron, based in Canton, Mass, The MIT Energy Initiative (MITei) is MIT's hub for research, education, campus energy management and outreach programs that cover all areas of energy supply and demand, security, and environmental impact, “Floating Nuclear Plants Could Ride Out Tsunamis”, http://theenergycollective.com/energyatmit/369266/floating-nuclear-plants-could-ride-out-tsunamis, April 17, 2014) |
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+When an earthquake and tsunami … and the answers are realistic.” |
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+==Warming Adv:== |
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+**United States involvement creates a massive export market for SMR’s, key to boosting the industry – latent nuclear capability ensures speed- significant reduction of emissions. Rosner 11:** |
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+(Robert Rosner, Robert Rosner is an astrophysicist and founding director of the Energy Policy Institute at Chicago. He was the director of Argonne National Laboratory from 2005 to 2009, and Stephen Goldberg, Energy Policy Institute at Chicago, The Harris School of Public Policy Studies, Joseph S. Hezir, Principal, EOP Foundation, Inc., “Small Modular Reactors – Key to Future Nuclear Power”, http://epic.uchicago.edu/sites/epic.uchicago.edu/files/uploads/SMRWhite_Paper_Dec.14.2011copy.pdf, November 2011) |
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+As stated earlier, SMRs have … Russia, and, now rapidly emerging, China. |
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+**Floating SMRs solve warming – collapse of nuclear industry means warming inevitable. Licata 14:** |
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+(John Licata, John Licata is the Founder and Chief Energy Strategist of Blue Phoenix Inc, Motley Fool, “Can Small Modular Nuclear Reactors Find Their Sea Legs?”, http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2014/04/27/can-small-modular-nuclear-reactors-find-their-sea.aspx, April 27, 2014) |
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+Nuclear power plants do bring … could simply get buried at sea. |
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+**Our tech is modeled globally – US action is a global demonstration. Traub 12:** |
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+James, fellow of the Centre on International Cooperation. He writes Terms of Engagement for Foreign Policy,” “Transforming the future lies in our hands,” http://gulfnews.com/opinions/columnists/transforming-the-future-lies-in-our-hands-1.1118704, December 14, 2012 |
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+Despite President Barack Obama’s vow … He must, however, do the possible. |
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+==Water Adv:== |
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+**Water shortages coming ~-~~-~- causes instability. AFP 12:** |
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+AFP 12, “World water crisis must be top UN priority: report”, Phys.org, September 11, 2012, http://phys.org/news/2012-09-world-crisis-priority.html |
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+WASHINGTON — A rapidly worsening water … "even in politically stable regions." |
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+**Only nuclear reactors can solve – solves water wars and mission effectiveness. Pfeffer and Macon 02:** |
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+Robert, physical scientist at the Army Nuclear and Chemical Agency who’s working on nuclear weapons effects, a graduate of Trinity University and has a master’s degree in physics from Johns Hopkins. William, project manager at NRC. “Nuclear Power: An Option for the Army’s Future” Jan 16, 2002 last modified. www.almc.army.mil/alog/issues/SepOct01/MS684.htm |
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+The idea of using nuclear power … will have to play a significant role. |