Tournament: Loyola | Round: Quarters | Opponent: Mountain View DZ | Judge: Panel
A is the Interpretation: If the aff defends an epistemically modest paradigm of framework debate, then they must defend the whole resolution. To clarify, either epistemic modesty or a plan is permissible but the combination isn’t.

Tournament: Loyola | Round: 2 | Opponent: Polytechnic JL | Judge: Adam Bistagne
A is the Interpretation: the affirmative debater must link all offense to a comprehensive normative theory that entails the truth or falsity of all normative propositions, rather than a) linking to some narrow principle without explaining what broader theory justifies it or b) linking to a broad theory they don’t justify. Their moral framework cannot just appeal to a feature they purport to be demanded or appealed to by all moral theories; rather, it must be derived from a single theory.

Tournament: Loyola | Round: 4 | Opponent: Harvard-Westlake CE | Judge: Kris Kaya
A is the Link: Affirming necessarily pushes energy into the private sector. The privatization of services expands neoliberal forms of biopower via capitalism – even if nuclear power is biopolitical, the aff is way worse. Hamann in 2k9
(Trent, St. John’s University, Foucault Studes no 6, Neoliberalism, Governmentality, and Ethics, http://rauli.cbs.dk/index.php/foucault-studies/article/view/2471/2469)
Within this formerly public ... onto individuals has succeeded.
Countries require reliable energy to meet base-load capacity – a nuclear energy ban only leads to reliance on coal - other fuels aren’t viable. Bosselman 7, Fred. (Professor of Law Emeritus, Chicago-Kent College of Law. Professor Bosselman is not affiliated with any company or agency that promotes nuclear power.) THE ECOLOGICAL ADVANTAGES OF NUCLEAR POWER. 3/15/2007. NP 8/24/16.
in substitution DA
The coal industry is horribly exploitative and unsafe—it’s corrupt to lower prices to meet international energy markets. Clark 14
Poor Working Conditions Continue To Plague Coal-Producing Developing Countries BY MEAGAN CLARK(staff reporter) 05/14/14 AT 3:21 PM http://www.ibtimes.com/poor-working-conditions-continue-plague-coal-producing-developing-countries-1584359 IB Times NS 8/27
Coal miners around ... Non-Traditional Security Studies report concluded.
Coal is worse: horrible for minority communities and lower-income areas. Israel 12
Coal plants smothering communities of color, report finds By Brett Israel (Scientific American Environmental Health Contributor) The Daily Climate http://www.dailyclimate.org/tdc-newsroom/2012/11/coal-power-injustice Nov 26, 2012 NS 8/26/12
Coal plants place a disproportionate ... according to the report.  
B is the Impact: No value to life under capitalism—it reduces everything to consumerist decision calculus. Cerni 07
Cerni, cultural logic electronic collection of Marxist Theory and Practice independent writer, 07 (Paula, “The Age of Consumer Capitalism”, http://clogic.eserver.org/2007/Cerni.pdf, accessed 7/8/09, JD)
Thus the powerlessness ... intangible flows of information and knowledge.
This also outweighs their impacts since even if they solve, we have no value to life to enjoy them in the first place.
Class focus and capitalism come before all impacts and is the root cause of all oppression. Kovel 07
Kovel, Prof. of Social Studies @ Bard, 2007 Joel, “The Enemy of Nature”, p. 140-
If, however, we ask the ... discuss in the next section.
Part C: the alt is to empower nuclear workers to socialize nuclear power. A rejection of nuclear power is impractical and doesn’t solve—it pushed power back into the hands of new government agencies and corporations. Only an empowerment movement solves. King ‘11
FUKUSHIMA, THE LEFT, AND NUCLEAR POWER by Stuart King on Socialist Arguments for Nuclear Power June 14, 2011. http://climateandcapitalism.com/2011/06/14/socialist-arguments-for-nuclear-power/ Climate and Capitalism Cut 9/3 NS
The whole of the nuclear ... technicians to be able to do so.

Tournament: Loyola | Round: 2 | Opponent: Polytechnic JL | Judge: Adam Bistagne
Claims of catastrophe claims don’t motivate – they alienate and force reactionary policies that result in eco-fascism. Turning away form apocalyptic rhetoric is key to addressing environmental problems in a meaningful way. Davidson, 2000
BioScience 50(5):433-440. 2000  Economic Growth and the Environment:Alternatives to the Limits Paradigm CARLOS DAVIDSON Carlos Davidson is a conservation biologist with a background in economics. He is currently studying landscape-scale patterns of amphibian decline in California in the Section of Evolution and Ecology, University of California, Davis
Is the limits metaphor ... and might support change?
Eco-fascism decimates the human population and accelerates degradation. Lewis, 94
Martin Lewis, 1994. Lecturer in history and director of the International Relations program at Stanford. Green Delusions, p. 8, Google Books.
Finally, the radical green movement ... in an already industrialized society.
The alternative is to reject the affirmative in order to oppose their representations of the environment and replace them with the metaphor of the tapestry of nature.  
Representing environmental degradation in terms of passing limits that risk catastrophic collapse is a political manipulation that is not based in science.  Degradation is more akin to the slow unraveling of the tapestry of nature—that is a better way to craft and understand environmental policy. Davidson, 2000
BioScience 50(5):433-440. 2000  Economic Growth and the Environment:Alternatives to the Limits Paradigm CARLOS DAVIDSON Carlos Davidson is a conservation biologist with a background in economics. He is currently studying landscape-scale patterns of amphibian decline in California in the Section of Evolution and Ecology, University of California, Davis
The relationship between ... option, and amenity considerations.
Political method is a prior question to the aff—the impact is serial policy failure. Dillon and Reid 2K
(Michael and Julian, “Global Governance, Liberal Peace, and Complex Emergency,” Alternatives: Social Transformation and Humane Governance, Jan-Mar 2000, Vol. 25, Issue 1, Ebsco)
As a precursor to global ... as Foucauldian "biopower" ways.

Tournament: Loyola | Round: Octas | Opponent: HW IP | Judge: Panel
Affirmative debaters may not defend a phase-out. They must defend that nuclear power plants are immediately dismantled, not phased out.

Merriam Webster defines phase-out “phase-out” http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/phase20out
to discontinue the practice, production, or use of by phases
Which means the aff happens gradually and not all at once.
Dictionary.com defines prohibit as http://www.dictionary.com/browse/prohibit
to forbid (an action, activity, etc.) by authority or law:

World Nuclear 16
“Decommissioning Nuclear Facilities” September 2016 http://www.world-nuclear.org/information-library/nuclear-fuel-cycle/nuclear-wastes/decommissioning-nuclear-facilities.aspx JW
Immediate Dismantling ... available for re-use.
That’s distinct from phase-out which takes decades. World Nuclear 16
“Nuclear Power in Germany”August 12th 2016 http://www.world-nuclear.org/information-library/country-profiles/countries-g-n/germany.aspx JW
However, despite this ... companion information paper.

Tournament: Loyola | Round: Quarters | Opponent: Mountain View DZ | Judge: Panel
India will use coal unless it shifts to nuclear power  - shift is key to decrease emissions and stop warming
Victor 6. David G. Victor, ((David G. Victor is adjunct senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and director of the program on energy and sustainable development at Stanford University) 3-16-2006, "Nuclear power for India is good for us all," http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/16/opinion/nuclear-power-for-india-is-good-for-us-all.html?_r=0, accessed 9-12-2016
STANFORD, California — If the deal ... government's grand plans for new hydro dams.  That leaves coal
India plans a shift to huge amounts of nuclear power—the aff stops that. Times of India 6/7
US-based Westinghouse to build 6 nuclear power plants in India PTI | Jun 7, 2016, 11.34 PM IST http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/US-based-Westinghouse-to-build-6-nuclear-power-plants-in-India/articleshow/52644065.cms Cut 9/12 NS
WASHINGTON: The Nuclear Power Corporation ... the White House said.
India’s the most important emitter for global warming. Coal is the root cause of their increase in pollution
Joyce 4/21 Christopher “Can The U.S. And China Keep Their Climate Pledges?” NPR April 21st 2016 http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/04/21/474690936/can-the-u-s-and-china-keep-their-climate-pledges
What the U.S. and ... U.S. does and what China does."
Warming is real, anthropogenic, and causes extinction. Jamail 15
Dahr “Mass Extinction: It's the End of the World as We Know It” July 6 2015 Truthout http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/31661-mass-extinction-it-s-the-end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it JW
Guy McPherson is a professor ... or even sooner.
Nuclear power prevents runaway global warming.
Kharecha and Hansen 13 Pushker A. Kharecha* and James E. Hansen. (Hansen is a professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Columbia University. Kharecha works at the ASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies  at NASA) Prevented Mortality and Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Historical and Projected Nuclear Power. ASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies and Columbia University Earth Institute. © 2013 American Chemical Society. dx.doi.org/10.1021/es3051197 | Environ. Sci. Technol. 2013, 47, 4889−4895. March 15, 2013. NP 8/13/16.
GHG Emissions. We calculate that ... 16−48 over the next few decades (derived by dividing 80 and 240 by 500).
The drive for coal in India is horrifying—terrible impacts to indigenous and minority populations. Chandran 7/13
India's coal mining ambition hurts indigenous group, Amnesty says Reuters World News http://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-india-coal-displacement-idUKKCN0ZT0YL Rina Chandran July 13, 2016 Cut 9/10 NS
MUMBAI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - India's drive ... help Adivasi communities.

Tournament: Loyola | Round: 2 | Opponent: Polytechnic JL | Judge: Adam Bistagne
Countries require reliable energy to meet base-load capacity – a nuclear energy ban only leads to reliance on coal - other fuels aren’t viable. Bosselman 7, Fred. (Professor of Law Emeritus, Chicago-Kent College of Law. Professor Bosselman is not affiliated with any company or agency that promotes nuclear power.) THE ECOLOGICAL ADVANTAGES OF NUCLEAR POWER. 3/15/2007. NP 8/24/16.
This article concentrates ... carbon dioxide emissions.77
Nuclear power displaces reliance on fossil fuels – solves environmental harm, economic collapse and instability
ASLJ 9. Copyright (c) 2009 Arizona State Law Journal Arizona State Law Journal  Spring, 2009  ARIZONA STATE LAW JOURNAL  41 Ariz. St. L.J. 315. NP 8/18/16.
Nuclear energy is the only ... dangers become irreversible. n81
Environmental harms from coal outweigh- it has the worst environmental impact of all energy sources. ASLJ 9
Arizona State Law Journal 9. Copyright (c) 2009 Arizona State Law Journal Arizona State Law Journal  Spring, 2009  ARIZONA STATE LAW JOURNAL  41 Ariz. St. L.J. 315. NP 8/18/16.
Each fossil fuel ... to the greatest degree.
Nuclear power prevents global warming. Kharecha and Hansen 13.
Pushker A. Kharecha* and James E. Hansen. (Hansen is a professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Columbia University. Kharecha works at the ASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies  at NASA) Prevented Mortality and Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Historical and Projected Nuclear Power. ASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies and Columbia University Earth Institute. © 2013 American Chemical Society. dx.doi.org/10.1021/es3051197 | Environ. Sci. Technol. 2013, 47, 4889−4895. March 15, 2013. NP 8/13/16.
GHG Emissions. We calculate ... (derived by dividing 80 and 240 by 500).
Nuclear power has a much smaller negative impact than coal on the environment at every step of the process
Bosselman 7, Fred. (Professor of Law Emeritus, Chicago-Kent College of Law. Professor Bosselman is not affiliated with any company or agency that promotes nuclear power.) THE ECOLOGICAL ADVANTAGES OF NUCLEAR POWER. 3/15/2007. NP 8/24/16.
Like coal, nuclear power ... nuclear power as a way to facilitate compliance.224