Tournament: Voices | Round: 1 | Opponent: MV Independent OZ | Judge: Scott Wheeler

CP

The USfg and Native Nations should establish a domestic climate policy that accelerates licensing and deployment of advanced nuclear reactor technologies, including an expedited demonstration of multi-pass fuel recycling and an integral fast reactor utilizing the S-PRISM design.

Expanding current nuclear tech WHILE demonstrating the IFR is crucial

Brook 10 ~Barry Brook, ARC Australian Laureate Professor and Chair of Environmental Sustainability at the University of Tasmania in the Faculty of Science, Engineering and Technology. He was formerly an ARC Future Fellow in the School of Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of Adelaide, Australia, where he held the Sir Hubert Wilkins Chair of Climate Change from 2007 to 2014, "IFR FaD 5 – the Gen III and Gen IV nuclear power synergy – why we need both," June 10, 2010, https://bravenewclimate.com/2010/06/10/ifr-fad-5~~
~The term LWR = light water reactor, that is, gen III thermal reactors (along with heavy water reactors, e.g. CANDU), like the kind now being built by the dozen in China; NRC = US nuclear regulatory commission; S-PRISM = prototype IFR, 300 MWe module; 4S = Toshiba’s nuclear battery (also a sodium-cooled fast reactor)~:
Ray Hunter: "What this country needs now is NRC’s full time attention to
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us, if we will just stop breathing for a day or two."

IFR’s are really safe – ignore evidence that doesn’t have the word "S-PRISM"

Blees et al. 11 ~Tom Blees1, Yoon Chang2, Robert Serafin3, Jerry Peterson4, Joe Shuster1, Charles Archambeau5, Randolph Ware3, 6, Tom Wigley3,7, Barry W. Brook7, 1Science Council for Global Initiatives, 2Argonne National Laboratory, 3National Center for Atmospheric Research, 4University of Colorado, 5Technology Research Associates, 6Cooperative Institute for Research in the Environmental Sciences, 7(climate professor) University of Adelaide, "Advanced nuclear power systems to mitigate climate change (Part III)," 2/24/11) http://bravenewclimate.com/2011/02/24/advanced-nuclear-power-systems-to-mitigate-climate-change/-http://bravenewclimate.com/2011/02/24/advanced-nuclear-power-systems-to-mitigate-climate-change~~
Metal Fuel: The Ultimate Safety Valve One of the most important of the many
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be a reactor design that even the most paranoid could feel good about.

DA

Meeting domestic climate targets is key to further initiatives and to prevent international backsliding that locks in climate change.

Freeman, 3/16/2016, Archibald Cox Professor of Law at Harvard University (Jody, "Obama’s Climate Challenge", https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/2016-03-16/obama-s-climate-challenge)
Although the fight over the Clean Power Plan is domestic, the consequences of the
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Power Plan’s demise gave China a convenient excuse to backslide on its commitments.

Nuclear is the only means to meet Paris goals

Gavin Bade 16 (Gavin Bade, 6-14-2016, "With CPP on ice, utilities seek organized market reforms to save baseload plants," Utility Dive, accessed 9-13-2016, http://www.utilitydive.com/news/with-cpp-on-ice-utilities-seek-organized-market-reforms-to-save-baseload-p/420892/)
Additionally, retiring nuclear generation raises concerns that the U.S. will not
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, calling the notion "not just far-fetched but virtually impossible. 

Warming causes extinction

Mazo 10 – PhD in Paleoclimatology from UCLA
Jeffrey Mazo, Managing Editor, Survival and Research Fellow for Environmental Security and Science Policy at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London, 3-2010, "Climate Conflict: How global warming threatens security and what to do about it," pg. 122
The best estimates for global warming to the end of the century range from 2
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adaptation to these extremes would mean profound social, cultural and political changes.

Nuclear power stops dangerous quantities of emissions

Biello 13 – David, writes for the scientific American, Internally Cites James Hansen, Professor at Columbia University ("How Nuclear Power Can Stop Global Warming" http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-nuclear-power-can-stop-global-warming/) LADI
In addition to reducing the risk of nuclear war, U.S. reactors
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, director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University, where Hansen works. 

warming perpetuates all inequalities

Hoerner 8—Former director of Research at the Center for a Sustainable Economy, Director of Tax Policy at the Center for Global Change at the University of Maryland College Park, and editor of Natural Resources Tax Review. He has done research on environmental economics and policy on behalf of the governments of Canada, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Switzerland, and the United States. Andrew received his B.A. in Economics from Cornell University and a J.D. from Case Western Reserve School of Law—AND—Nia Robins—former inaugural Climate Justice Corps Fellow in 2003, director of Environmental Justice and Climate Change Initiative (J. Andrew, "A Climate of Change African Americans, Global Warming, and a Just Climate Policy for the U.S." July 2008, http://www.ejcc.org/climateofchange.pdf)
Everywhere we turn, the issues and impacts of climate change confront us. One
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points and raising the average African American income by 3 to 4 percent. 

DA

Nuclear power use redirect fossil fuels to chemical applications—-key to the industry

Ongena 2 (J., Laboratorium voor Plasmafysica, Koninklijke Militaire School (Belgium), and G. Van Oost, Researcher – NFSR, "Energy For Future Centuries: Will Fusion Be An Inexhaustible, Safe And Clean Energy Source?", Fusion Science and Technology, https://crppwww.epfl.ch/crppfusion/fusion.pdf)
ABSTRACT The current power consumption in different parts of the world and an estimate of
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scheme causes irreplaceable basic chemicals to be lost forever on a gigantic scale.

Extinction

Danielpour 14 (Steven Danielpour, AIA, CSI, CCS, LEED AP BD+C, director of firmwide specifications at HOK, member of the corporate BuildingSmart, BIM, and Project Delivery boards, "Sustainable Coatings: Shifting the Paradigm," D+D, April 2014, http://www.cristalactiv.com/uploads/press/2014-0420Sustainable20Coatings'Danielpour20D+D20April202014.pdf)
New technologies and processes will help deliver the innovations needed to respond to mankind’s greatest
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we face are unprecedented in human history, but so are the opportunities. 

Moral uncertainty means extinction is a side constraint on ethics. Bostrom ‘11

Nick Bostrom ‘11, "The Concept of Existential Risk", 2011, Future of Humanity Institute, Oxford Martin School and Faculty of Philosophy http://www.existential-risk.org/concept.html
These reflections on moral uncertainty suggest an alternative, complementary way of looking at existential
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the process of getting there (but rather, if possible, improved).