Tournament: Grapevine | Round: 1 | Opponent: Collegiate EW | Judge: Varad Agarwala

In order for an action to be moral, it must first be willed universally:

analytic

KORSGAARD:

"Self-Constitution in the Ethics of Plato and Kant"
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the will to abide any moral theory must first will it as universal.

Thus, the sufficient negative burden is to prove that prohibiting the production of nuclear power cannot be willed as a universal principle.

Contention:

No empirical object is intrinsically valuable. Their value lies only in relationship to rational agency.

KANT:

Immanuel Kant ~founder of analytic philosophy~ "Critique of Pure Reason" 1781
"We have therefore wanted to say that all our intuition is nothing but the
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. However, they are doing so because the criminal was coercive themselves.

Tournament: St Marks | Round: 3 | Opponent: Anderson SJ | Judge: Kyle Fennessy

A2. Soft power

There's no way to transition to soft energy – renewables always cycle back into centralization

Trabish '13
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But at present, Chaset said, "there are concerns about cost and about
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distributed generation. You need some centralized generation to balance load and supply."

Not true Nuclear power can act as soft power

Hore-Lacy '10
Ian Hore-Lacy Director of Public Communications World Nuclear Association, London http://www.world-nuclear.org29 April 2010, "Response to Lovins, December 2005" Nuclear Engineering International http://www.neimagazine.com/news/newsresponse-to-lovins-december-2005
The first point I would make is that we should encourage Dr Lovins ~advocates
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another. WNA trusts that he will factor those in to future prognostications. 

Lovin's evidence for nuclear-phase out is outdated and wrong

Hore-Lacy '10
Ian Hore-Lacy Director of Public Communications World Nuclear Association, London http://www.world-nuclear.org29 April 2010, "Response to Lovins, December 2005" Nuclear Engineering International http://www.neimagazine.com/news/newsresponse-to-lovins-december-2005
WNA is also accused of "denying the existence of a large and compelling literature
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via some complex sophistry to suggest a high carbon intensity for nuclear power.

Not Unique Renewables need subsides too and even with funding it's not viable

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Many in the industry moan that without the tax break, solar's days as a
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preservation argument that it needs government support because it's a "risky investment."