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Framework

Debate should be an academic exercise where the Affirmative plays the role of a policymaker and the Negative negates this plan and promotes a competitive policy option. This creates a competitive space to imagine new ideas and translate them into practical suggestions—playing devil's advocate challenges the status quo and results in emancipatory change

Andrews,06 (Peter, Consulting Faculty Member at the IBM Executive Business Institute in Palisades, New York, Executive Technology Report, August, www-935.ibm.com/services/us/bcs/pdf/g510-6313-etr-unlearn-to-innovate.pdf)
High stakes innovation requires abandoning conventional wisdom, even actively unlearning things we "know
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for unexpected alternatives and find the vulnerabilities of a new idea or approach).

And, Impact calculus- Our discussion should be based around finding changes in the empirical world that can change tangible conditions of oppression.

Curry 14, Tommy J. "The Cost of a Thing: A Kingian Reformulation of a Living Wage Argument in the 21st Century" (2014) Victory Briefs, p. 55-56 ~Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, Texas AandM~
Despite the pronouncement of debate as an activity and intellectual exercise pointing to the real
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used to currently justify the living wages in under our contemporary moral parameters.

The standard is maximizing happiness.

Prefer this utilitarianism framework for 2 reasons

First, state action. Util is the only moral framework accessible to policy-makers.

Goodin 90
Robert Goodin, Professor of Government, University of Essex, Australian National Defense University, "THE UTILITARIAN RESPONSE," p. 141-2, 1990.
My larger argument turns on the proposition that there is Something special about the situation
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want to use it at all – to choose general rules or conduct.

====Second, states can't adhere to side-constraints because state action requires value trade-offs. ====
Woller 97
Gary Woller, Professor of Public Management @ Brigham Young University, "A Forum on the Role of Environmental Ethics in Restructuring Environmental Policy and Law for the Next Century," Policy Currents 7.2, p. 10-11, June 1997.
Moreover, virtually all Public policies entail some redistribution of economic or political resources,
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offs implied by their policies are somehow to the overall advantage of society.

Solvency

Thorium increases the sustainability of nuclear power, produce less waste and helps us phase out nuclear powers used for weapons

IAEA 05 International Atomic Energy Agency "Thorium fuel cycle — Potential benefits and challenges" May 2005 p. 8 http://www-pub.iaea.org/MTCD/Publications/PDF/TE_1450_web.pdf
Thorium is 3 to 4 times more abundant than uranium, widely distributed in nature
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through the incineration of weapons grade plutonium (WPu) or civilian plutonium.

Thorium provides a clear net benefit to the neg because it produces more power and less risk of degradation than any other form of energy

STFC Science and Technology Facilities Council "A Statement on EMMA" http://prospect.org/article/will-thorium-save-us-all
One ton of thorium can produce as much energy as 200 tons of uranium,
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its core, thus enormously reducing its radioactive half-life and toxicity.

Getting rid of nuclear power would be ill advised as opposed to embracing new technology and innovation in the field of nuclear power

Moniz 11 Ernest Moniz (an American nuclear physicist and the United States Secretary of Energy) "Why We Still Need Nuclear Power: Making Clean Energy Safe and Affordable" Foreign Affairs Vol. 90, No. 6 p. 98 (NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2011)  http://www.jstor.org/stable/23039631?seq=1~~#page_scan_tab_contents DOA:8.16.16
As greenhouse gases accumulate in the atmosphere, finding ways to generate power cleanly,
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change—is long overdue. Further delay will only raise the stakes.

Thus the counterplan text Resolved: Countries ought to exclusively use liquid fluoride thorium reactors (LTFR's) to produce nuclear power