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+UQ: Nuclear is key and is the best for the grid – it’s strained now but more plants are on the way. |
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+Weinstein 14 Bernard L. Weinstein, Weinstein is associate director of the Maguire Energy Institute in the Cox School of Business at Southern Methodist University in Dallas and a fellow with the George W. Bush Institute, “Nuclear power can bring long-term stability to the stressed electric grid” January 15, 2014, 03:00 pm HSLA//SC |
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+Global warming notwithstanding, |
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+AND |
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+electric power grid. |
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+Link: Mass nuke power plant shutdown breaks the power grid and alternative such as natural gas create vulnerabilities -California proves |
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+Daniels 6/22 Jeff Daniels, 6-22-2016, "Nuclear power fades in California as energy grid gets stressed," CNBC, http://www.cnbc.com/2016/06/22/nuclear-power-fades-in-california-as-energy-grid-gets-stressed.html Jeff Daniels is a coordinating producer for CNBC, based at the network's Los Angeles Bureau. He joined the network in 1999. Prior to joining CNBC, Daniels was entertainment editor of financial wire service Bridge News and business editor of The Hollywood Reporter. He was a news writer for Financial Network Network, a predecessor to CNBC. HSLA//SC |
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+California's stressed-out |
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+AND |
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+things like that." |
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+Internal Link: A weak grid exacerbates the effects of cyber-attacks an costs the economy millions. Turns case. |
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+Bennet and Williams 16 Katie Bo Williams and Cory Bennett, “Why a power grid attack is a nightmare scenario,” The Hill, May 30, 2016, http://thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity/281494-why-a-power-grid-attack-is-a-nightmare-scenario HSLA//SC |
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+Stores are closed. |
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+AND |
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+ordinary software bug. |
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+Internal Link: Small grid failure brings down the entire system – the impact is chemical plant explosions, worse than atom bomb. O/W the aff on magnitude millions will die. Turns case. |
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+Latynina 3 World Press Review (VOL. 50, No. 11) www.worldpress.org/Americas/1579.cfm HSLA//SC |
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+The scariest thing |
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+AND |
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+entire grid system. |
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+Impact: A weak or small grid leads to nuclear war. |
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+Andres 11 Richard B. – Professor of National Security Strategy at the National War College and a Senior Fellow and Energy and Environmental Security and Policy Chair in the Center for Strategic Research, Institute for National Strategic Studies, at the National Defense University, **Hanna L. Breetz – Doctoral candidate in the Department of Political Science at The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Small Nuclear Reactors for Military Installations: Capabilities, Costs, and Technological Implications, Strategic Forum, National Defense University, Institute for National Strategic Studies, February 2011, http://www.ndu.edu/press/lib/pdf/StrForum/SF-262.pdf HSLA//SC |
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+Grid Vulnerability. DOD |
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+AND |
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+by this possibility. |
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+Impact: Cyberattacks lead to infrastructure shutdown, which escalates to nuclear war. |
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+Tilford 12 Robert Tilford 12, Graduate US Army Airborne School, Ft. Benning, Georgia, “Cyber attackers could shut down the electric grid for the entire east coast” 2012, http://www.examiner.com/article/cyber-attackers-could-easily-shut-down-the-electric-grid-for-the-entire-east-coa HSLA//SC |
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+To make matters |
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+AND |
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+by the President. |