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-====Nuclear power ban creates a power gap which has to be replaced with coal.==== |
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-**Wilson 14.** Wilson, Robert. (Robert Wilson is a PhD Student in Mathematical Ecology at the University of Strathclyde.) "Why Germany's Nuclear Phase Out is Leading to More Coal Burning" 1/20/14. Web. August 18, 2016. http://www.theenergycollective.com/robertwilson190/328841/why-germanys-nuclear-phase-out-leading-more-coal-burning ///AD |
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-In September 2012 Germany's Environment Minister opened a new lignite power plant, arguing the |
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-first half of this decade Germany will open 9 new coal power plants. |
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-====A decrease in nuclear power is directly correlated with an increase in coal production: countries are empirically proven to have higher emissions==== |
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-**Lynas 15 **Lynas, Mark. "Why a Green Future Needs Nuclear Power." RSS. An Ecomodernist Manifesto, 18 June 2015. Web. 19 Aug. 2016. |
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-The success of the antinuclear movement in the 1970s guaranteed an increased use of coal |
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-movement is therefore not lit by sunshine, but shrouded in coal smoke. |
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-====Coal causes huge harms and environmental racism—turns case.==== |
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-GEP 15, "Environmental Racism in America: An Overview of the Environmental Justice Movement and the Role of Race in Environmental Policies", The Goldman Environmental Press, 24 Jun 2015, BE |
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-The problem of racial profiling in America relates to more than just police brutality and |
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-living within three miles of the coal-fired power plants we visited." |
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-====Coal causes more waste that nuclear power, turns case.==== |
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-**Scientific American 7.** Mara Hvistendahl Is A Contributing Correspondent At Science and Author Of Unnatural Selection: Choosing Boys Over Girls, And The Consequences Of A World Full Of Men (Publicaffairs, 2011). She Is Currently Writing A Book On The Rise Of Economic And Cyber-Spying And The Global Battle Over Technological Secrets., 12-13-2007, "Coal Ash Is More Radioactive Than Nuclear Waste," Scientific American, http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/coal-ash-is-more-radioactive-than-nuclear-waste/ //RS |
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-The popular conception of nuclear power is straight out of The Simpsons: Springfield abounds |
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-other forms of energy, may be tempted to raise these issues again." |
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-====Outweighs their evidence: our study was comparative between coal and nuclear power, theirs will just say nuclear power is bad. Our argument is that nuclear power may be bad but coal is worse.==== |
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-====Coal kills fish, their advantage is non-unique.==== |
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-Darryl Fears 14 (The Washington Post, "Mountaintop removal for coal hurts water quality and harms fish, study says" https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/mountaintop-removal-for-coal-hurts-water-quality-and-harms-fish-study-says/2014/07/13/0072f69e-0783-11e4-bbf1-cc51275e7f8f_story.html) SN |
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-In West Virginia's Appalachian mountains, fish are vanishing. The number of species has |
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-sampled the populations in waters downstream from an active mountaintop coal mining operation. |