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+====Nuclear power is resolving emissions now- models show it prevents almost half of the CO2 necessary to stop runaway warming. ==== |
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+Kharecha and Hansen 13, Pushker A. Kharecha* and James E. Hansen NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies and Columbia University Earth Institute, "Prevented Mortality and Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Historical and Projected Nuclear Power," American Chemical Society, Environmental Science and Technology, 2013 |
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+We calculate that world nuclear power generation prevented an average of 64 gigatonnes of CO2 |
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+AND |
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+efficiency improvements and renewables, in the near-term global energy supply. |
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+====That solves 1.84 million air pollution deaths==== |
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+Kharecha and Hansen 13, Pushker A. Kharecha* and James E. Hansen NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies and Columbia University Earth Institute, "Prevented Mortality and Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Historical and Projected Nuclear Power," American Chemical Society, Environmental Science and Technology, 2013 |
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+In the aftermath of the March 2011 accident at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant |
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+AND |
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+climate problem and would cause far more deaths than expansion of nuclear power. |
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+====Closing nuclear plants forces increased fossil fuel use ==== |
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+**Roston 15** ~~Eric Roston, writer for Bloomberg, "Why Nuclear Power Is All but Dead in the U.S." Bloomberg News, April 15, 2015, http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-04-15/soon-it-may-be-easier-to-build-a-nuclear-plant-in-iran-than-in-the-u-s-~~ JW |
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+*ellipsis from original text |
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+Say what? The U.S. achieved |
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+AND |
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+to figure out nuclear if that envelope is to mean anything to us." |
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+====Only nuclear power solves – alternative energy growth is unaffected by phase-out but rather by state requirements and is statistically insufficient to replacing nuclear energy==== |
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+Brintone and Freede 15, Samuel Brinton Master's degree program at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in nuclear engineering and the technology and policy program and Josh Freed Vice President at GMMB, a social marketing and advocacy firm, where he advised the senior leadership of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation; regularly advises senior federal and state policymakers, and his work has been featured in The Washington Post, NPR, National Journal, POLITICO, The Los Angeles Times and Wired., "When Nuclear Ends: How Nuclear Retirements Might Undermine Clean Power Plan Progress," Third Way, 8-19-2015, http://www.thirdway.org/report/when-nuclear-ends-how-nuclear-retirements-might-undermine-clean-power-plan-progress, |
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+Unfortunately, our models found that renewable electricity sources grow primarily to satisfy state RPS |
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+AND |
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+and natural gas plants than our existing fleet of carbon-free nuclear. |
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+====Climate change disproportionately affects people of color and causes extinction. ==== |
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+Pellow 12 |
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+**David Naguib Pellow 12, Ph.D. Professor, Don Martindale Endowed Chair – University of Minnesota, "Climate Disruption in the Global South and in African American Communities: Key Issues, Frameworks, and Possibilities for Climate Justice," February 2012, http://www.jointcenter.org/sites/default/files/upload/research/files/White_Paper_Climate_Disruption_final.pdf** |
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+It is now known unequivocally that significant warming of the atmosphere is occurring, coinciding |
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+AND |
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+must reduce our emissions and consumption here at home in the global North. |
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+====DA turns case: Native Americans are especially vulnerable to climate change ==== |
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+**Halpert 12** ~~Julie Halpert, author at Yale Climate Connections, "Native Americans and a Changing Climate," Yale Climate Connections, June 21, 2012, http://www.yaleclimateconnections.org/2012/06/native-americans-and-a-changing-climate/~~ JW |
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+Native Americans are expected to be among the population groups most vulnerable to adverse effects |
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+2011, the organization passed a resolution opposing the proposed Keystone XL pipeline. |
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+====Nuclear power is the only way to generate sufficient energy for large-scale desalination==== |
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+**IAEA 15 **~~— widely known as the world's "Atoms for Peace" organization within the United Nations family. Set up in 1957 as the world's centre for cooperation in the nuclear field, the Agency works with its Member States and multiple partners worldwide to promote the safe, secure and peaceful use of nuclear technologies, "New Technologies for Seawater Desalination Using Nuclear Energy," IEAE TecDoc Series, 2015~~ |
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+ It is anticipated that by 2025, 33 of the world population, |
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+AND |
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+for coupling nuclear reactors and desalination systems for specific sites in the Mediterranean region |
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+====Desalination is coming and saves millions of lives- water shortages specifically harms poorer countries ==== |
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+Panlilio 13: Panlilio, Rafael Contributor, The Borgen Project "How Desalination Can Prevent a World Water Crisis." The Borgen Project, March 2013 |
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+A study from NASA and the University of California – Irvine shows that the Middle |
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+AND |
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+looking into System of Rice Intensification (SRI) to reap record breaking harvests |
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+====Water crises cause escalating global conflict.==== |
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+**Rasmussen 11 ~~(Erik, CEO, Monday Morning; Founder, Green Growth Leaders) "Prepare for the Next Conflict: Water Wars" HuffPo 4/12~~ ** |
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+For years experts have set out warnings of how the earth will be affected by |
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+and "business as usual" prevails, then water wars will accelerate. |
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+====That goes nuclear==== |
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+**Zahoor 12** (Musharaf, Researcher at Department of Nuclear Politics – National Defense University, Water Crisis can Trigger Nuclear War in South Asia, http://www.siasat.pk) |
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+Water is an ambient source, which unlike human beings does not respect boundaries. |
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+being faced by Pakistan, which can only be resolved through political will. |
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+====CP Text: All countries already or considering developing nuclear power should join the International Framework for Nuclear Energy Cooperation. ==== |
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+====It creates networks for nuclear power without having to establish domestic facilities, educates countries on the safe and proper use of nuclear power—solves prolif and warming.==== |
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+**WNA 15 ~~World Nuclear Association; Information on nuclear energy and the nuclear fuel cycle; August 2015; "International Framework for Nuclear Energy Cooperation"; **http://www.world-nuclear.org/information-library/current-and-future-generation/international-framework-for-nuclear-energy-coopera.aspx**; JLB (8/8/2016)~~** |
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+The International Framework for Nuclear Energy Cooperation (IFNEC), formerly the Global Nuclear Energy |
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+. Forum (GIF) and the Multinational Design Evaluation Programme (MDEP). |
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+====Eliminates extra plutonium—solves terror and war.==== |
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+**WNA 15 ~~World Nuclear Association; Information on nuclear energy and the nuclear fuel cycle; August 2015; "International Framework for Nuclear Energy Cooperation"; **http://www.world-nuclear.org/information-library/current-and-future-generation/international-framework-for-nuclear-energy-coopera.aspx**; JLB (8/8/2016)~~** |
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+An early priority was seen to be the development of new reprocessing technologies to enable |
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+fabrication techniques that do not result in the accumulation of separated pure plutonium. |
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+===Terror === |
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+====Even if terrorists steal nuclear fuel, the process of converting that to a bomb is impossible. Neushaser 16:==== |
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+Neuhauser, Alan. "How Real Is the Dirty Bomb Threat?" US News. U.S.News and World Report, 24 Mar. 2016. Web. 06 Aug. 2016. http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2016-03-24/how-real-is-the-dirty-bomb-threat. |
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+"People have a view of there being all this nuclear material just floating around |
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+to get their hands on spent nuclear fuel is very, very unlikely." |
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+====Spent fuel in a nuclear plant is harder for terrorists to use ==== |
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+**Murray 8/16 ** |
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+Murray, Iain. "Nuclear Power? Yes Please." The National Review. 06-16-2008. Web. August 16, 2016. http://www.unz.org/Pub/NationalRev-2008jun16-00032. |
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+To be effective in a weapon, a given volume of plutonium must contain no |
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+in the manufacture of nuclear weapons — and well nigh impossible for amateurs. |