Tournament: CPS | Round: 2 | Opponent: Ashland | Judge: Felix Tan
Stock Aff

FW

Educational spaces like debate are inherently political. We should use this space to challenge the neoliberal order that detaches ourselves from the possibility of social change. Giroux ’04:
Giroux, Henry A. "Public pedagogy and the politics of neo-liberalism: Making the political more pedagogical." Policy Futures in Education 2.3-4 (2004): 494-503.
In spite of the professional pretense to neutrality, academics need to do more pedagogically
AND
in¶ dark times through new forms of global protests and collective resistance.

AND, Our discussions cannot be based in the abstract—policy discussions and acknowledging material conditions are key.
Dr. Tommy J. Curry The Cost of a Thing: A Kingian Reformulation of a Living Wage Argument in the 21st Century. 2014
Despite the pronouncement of debate as an activity and intellectual exercise pointing to the real
AND
remedy our cast-away-ness among our ideological tendencies and politics. 

Therefore, The role of the ballot is to vote for the debater who best recognizes and identifies a solution to oppressive power structures.

The conflict between non ideal theory – one that accounts for the realities and material conditions of the world – and ideal theory, an abstract ethical approach is crucial for an ethical starting point. Prefer Non-ideal theory. Ideal theory glosses over issues of structural domination – that reifies oppressive power structures and skews ethical theorizing. Mills 05:
Charles W. Mills, “Ideal Theory” as Ideology, 2005
Now what distinguishes ideal theory is not merely the use of ideals, since obviously
AND
of that oppression, and that are requisite for understanding its reproductive dynamic.¶ 

Thus the standard is minimizing oppression.

1. Social inclusion is a logical prerequisite to debate itself. Debate requires discussions between people with different views—otherwise the debate would only involve one side pronouncing its truth. Thus, by speaking, my opponent concedes the AC framework. 

2. Having a debate before recognizing the importance of structural violence is moot because structural violence causes us to divide others into categories that are worthy and unworthy of our values. Winter and Leighton 08:
Deborah DuNann Winter and Dana C. Leighton. Winter: Psychologist that specializes in Social Psych, Counseling Psych, Historical and Contemporary Issues, Peace Psychology. Leighton: PhD graduate student in the Psychology Department at the University of Arkansas. Knowledgable in the fields of social psychology, peace psychology, and ustice and intergroup responses to transgressions of justice) (Peace, conflict, and violence: Peace psychology in the 21st century. Pg 4-5, 2008)

Finally, to recognize
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to empower citizens to reduce it.

2 analytics

Plan

Resolved: Public colleges and universities in the United States ought not restrict any constitutionally protected speech.

Colleges restrict constitutionally protected speech in the status quo. Moore ‘16
Social Studies Research and Practice www.socstrp.org  Volume 11 Number 1 112 Spring 2016  You Cannot Say That in American Schools: Attacks on the First Amendment James R. Moore Cleveland State University
The first amendment, a crucial component of American constitutional law, is under attack
AND
, 2013; Saxe V. State College Area School District, 2001).

Contention – Counter Speech

Hate groups are growing at their highest rates ever—current restrictive speech codes prove ineffective. Heller 12/6
Heller 12/6 (Dave, staff @ NewsWorks, “Examining the rise in hate groups”, http://www.newsworks.org/index.php/local/newsworks-tonight/99466-examining-the-rise-in-hate-groups)
More than 900 hate groups are operating around the U.S., including many
AND
, in particular, had a very real problem for quite a while."

Free speech neutralizes hate groups and speech restrictions—the “real discussion” we need to have about race doesn’t happen because we censor those that we disagree with. Malinowski 11/17
Malinowski 11/17 (Jacob, staff @ The Politic.org, ““White Pride Online”: The New Face of America’s Racism”, http://thepolitic.org/white-pride-online-the-new-face-of-americas-racism/)
To appeal to ordinary citizens, the alt-right refrains from using racial slurs
AND
soon lead a new national conversation on the role of race in society.

Counter-speech works to combat hate speech—empirically verified. Davidson ‘16
The Freedom of Speech in Public Forums on College Campuses: A Single-Site Case Study on Pushing the Boundaries of the Freedom of Speech A Senior Project presented to The Faculty of the Journalism Department California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo In Partial Fulfillment Of the Requirements for the Degree Bachelor of Science in Journalism By Alexander Davidson June 2016 
All experts agreed that negative speech creates awareness that surrounds a certain topic. They
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there are people who use “good speech” to combat the issue.

The alternative – censorship – undermines empowerment and makes offensive speakers into martyrs, increasing the effectiveness of their arguments—my evidence is directly comparative. Calleros ‘95
Calleros 95 (Charles, Winter, Professor of Law, Arizona State University, 27 Ariz. St. L.J. 1249, “PATERNALISM, COUNTERSPEECH, AND CAMPUS HATE-SPEECH CODES: A REPLY TO DELGADO AND YUN”, lexis)
The viewpoint-neutrality principle reflects the philosophy, first stated in pathbreaking opinions by
AND
of hate and oppression. Instead of empowering them, it enfeebles them. 

The importance of reforming higher education and spurring meaningful public discourse cannot be over-emphasized; a radical transformation towards engagement is critical to challenging neo-liberal forces. Williams ‘15
Williams 15 Jo Williams (Lecturer, College of Education at Victoria University), "Remaking education from below: the Chilean student movement as public pedagogy," Australian Journal of Adult Learning, November 2015 

More than ever the crisis of schooling represents, at large, the crisis
AND
and a return of the student and pedagogue as authentic and critical subjects.

Tournament: Apple Valley | Round: 3 | Opponent: Lake Highland MK | Judge: Carlos Taylor
Framework

Educational spaces like debate are inherently political. We should use this space to challenge the neoliberal order that detaches ourselves from the possibility of social change. Giroux ’04:
Giroux, Henry A. "Public pedagogy and the politics of neo-liberalism: Making the political more pedagogical." Policy Futures in Education 2.3-4 (2004): 494-503.
In spite of the professional pretense to neutrality, academics need to do more pedagogically
AND
in¶ dark times through new forms of global protests and collective resistance.

AND, Our discussions cannot be based in the abstract—policy discussions and acknowledging material conditions are key.
Dr. Tommy J. Curry The Cost of a Thing: A Kingian Reformulation of a Living Wage Argument in the 21st Century. 2014
Despite the pronouncement of debate as an activity and intellectual exercise pointing to the real
AND
remedy our cast-away-ness among our ideological tendencies and politics. 

Therefore, The role of the ballot is to vote for the debater who best recognizes and identifies a solution to oppressive power structures.

The conflict between non ideal theory – one that accounts for the realities and material conditions of the world – and ideal theory, an abstract ethical approach is crucial for an ethical starting point. Prefer Non-ideal theory. Ideal theory glosses over issues of structural domination – that reifies oppressive power structures and skews ethical theorizing. Mills 05:
Charles W. Mills, “Ideal Theory” as Ideology, 2005
Now what distinguishes ideal theory is not merely the use of ideals, since obviously
AND
of that oppression, and that are requisite for understanding its reproductive dynamic.¶ 

Thus the standard is minimizing oppression. 

1. Analytic 

2. Having a debate before recognizing the importance of structural violence is moot because structural violence causes us to divide others into categories that are worthy and unworthy of our values. Winter and Leighton 08:
Deborah DuNann Winter and Dana C. Leighton. Winter: Psychologist that specializes in Social Psych, Counseling Psych, Historical and Contemporary Issues, Peace Psychology. Leighton: PhD graduate student in the Psychology Department at the University of Arkansas. Knowledgable in the fields of social psychology, peace psychology, and ustice and intergroup responses to transgressions of justice) (Peace, conflict, and violence: Peace psychology in the 21st century. Pg 4-5, 2008)

Finally, to recognize the operation of structural violence AND we become aware of its operation, and build systematic ways to mitigate its effects. Learning about structural violence may be discouraging, overwhelming, or maddening, but these papers encourage us to step beyond guilt and anger, and begin to think about how to reduce structural violence. All the authors in this section note that the same structures (such as global communication and normal social cognition) which feed structural violence, can also be used to empower citizens to reduce it.

Impacts:

A. Analytic

B. Analytic

Advocacy

Resolved: The United States federal government ought to limit qualified immunity for police officers by changing the doctrinal formula to exclude liability unless the defendant’s conduct was clearly unconstitutional. Jeffries 10 clarifies:
(John C. June. What’s Wrong With Qualified Immunity? University of Virginia Law School. Prominent law professor; former dean of the University of Virginia Law School. http://poseidon01.ssrn.com/delivery.php?ID=816116074064001018089031082074024081024036042028091005105067118026092072091073083126009003116014006009030066117023111106096083114026028080092004068107114106103086090081005076083066122121024099093102087065120066115123072112065127075080124112100007005068andEXT=pdf LS)
A second suggestion would be to change the doctrinal formula for qualified immunity. Rather
AND
be ―clearly unconstitutional.‖ Qualified immunity would be upheld under either formulation. 

Status quo qualified immunity makes it impossible to bring litigation against police officers to court. Meyers 96:
(Linda Ross. When Reasonable Minds Differ. New York Law Review. 1996. Professor of Law at Quinnipac School of Law. http://www.nyulawreview.org/sites/default/files/pdf/NYULawReview-71-6-Meyer.pdf LS)
From the perspective of legal indeterminacy, the levels of generality problem generates a paradox
AND
rules that makes them both general enough and specific enough to be useful.

Advantage – Racism

By shifting the discussion from constitutional rights to reasonableness, the status quo obscures civil rights reform and protection. Hassel 99:
(Diana. Winter. Living a Lie: The Cost of Qualified Immunity. Missouri Law Review. Professor of Law at Roger Williams School of Law. http://scholarship.law.missouri.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3402andcontext=mlr LS)
The emphasis that qualified immunity places on the reasonableness of the defendant's actions rather than
AND
of an open debate concerning which civil rights should be protected and how.

The vagueness surrounding qualified immunity precludes any reform. Hassel 2:
Current qualified immunity AND very aims it professes to accomplish.

Court expansion of QI exacerbates racial discrimination in the criminal justice system—the law must be used to safeguard minority rights. Reinhardt ‘15
Michigan Law Review Volume 113 | Issue 7 2015 The Demise of Habeas Corpus and the Rise of Qualified Immunity: The Court's Ever Increasing Limitations on the Development and Enforcement of Constitutional Rights and Some Particularly Unfortunate Consequences Stephen R. Reinhardt United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
Unfortunately, the Court’s recent treatment of federal habeas law and qualified immunity evinces a
AND
decisions in other areas of the law,176 only exacerbated the problem.

Even if police officers were taken to court—it’s municipalities that would have to pay damages. Means no link to police enforcement DAs and the aff is key to challenging the state. Reinhardt ‘15
Michigan Law Review Volume 113 | Issue 7 2015 The Demise of Habeas Corpus and the Rise of Qualified Immunity: The Court's Ever Increasing Limitations on the Development and Enforcement of Constitutional Rights and Some Particularly Unfortunate Consequences Stephen R. Reinhardt United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Unfortunately, the Court’s actions no longer match its rhetoric. In fact, they
AND
has once again exalted a lesser concern over the protection of constitutional rights.

Advantage – Legal System Legitmacy

Public perception of the judicial system is at an all time low—its treatment of racial minorities is the cause. Reinhardt ‘15
Michigan Law Review Volume 113 | Issue 7 2015 The Demise of Habeas Corpus and the Rise of Qualified Immunity: The Court's Ever Increasing Limitations on the Development and Enforcement of Constitutional Rights and Some Particularly Unfortunate Consequences Stephen R. Reinhardt United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
This is an especially unfortunate time to be limiting the opportunities of those who have
AND
. On this score, the Court has simply failed in its mission.

Legal legitimacy is key to compliance with the law and maintaining moral order—turns Phil NCs. Robinson 11,
Robinson 11 (Paul, ) “Mercy, Crime Control and Moral Credibility” Public Law and Legal Theory Research Paper Series Research Paper No. #10-32
Perhaps the greatest utility of empirical desert comes through a more subtle but potentially more
AND
it will be effective in doing so only if it has sufficient credibility. 

Crime kills soft power. This card’s amazing. The author works for the UN, so he’s most qualified on how the US’ international reputation is declining. Falk
This unabashed avowal of imperial goals is the main thesis of the article, perhaps most graphically expressed in the following words: "The United States can increase the effectiveness of its military forces and make the world safe for soft power, America's inherent comparative advantage." As the glove fits the  AND unknown, cure unknown", applies

This solves multiple scenarios for extinction. Nye
t power is the ability to attract people to our side without coercion. Legitimacy is central to soft power. If a people or nation believes  AND new set of threats for the United States to consider… States and non-state actors who improve their ability to draw in allies will gain competitive advantages in today’s environment. Those who alienate potential friends will stand at greater risk. 

Underview

1. The world is getting better—productive state focused solutions are empirically verified. Beauchamp 13
   Beauchamp 13 — Zack Beauchamp, Editor of TP Ideas—a Think Progress project, Reporter for Think Progress, former writer for Andrew Sullivan’s The Dish at Newsweek/Daily Beast, has written for Foreign Policy and Tablet magazines, holds an M.S. in International Relations from the London School of Economics and B.A.s in Philosophy and Political Science from Brown University, 2013 (“5 Reasons Why 2013 Was The Best Year In Human History,” Think Progress—the Center for American Progress blog, December 11th, Available Online at http://thinkprogress.org/security/2013/12/11/3036671/2013-certainly-year-human-history/, Accessed 03-31-2014)
   5. There’s less racism, sexism, and other forms of discrimination in the world. Racism, sexism, anti-Semitism, homophobia, and other forms of discrimination remain, without a doubt, extraordinarily powerful forces. The statistical and experimental evidence is overwhelming — this irrefutable proof of widespread discrimination against African-Americans, for instance, should put the “racism is dead” fantasy to bed. Yet the need to combat discrimination denial shouldn’t blind us to the good news. Over the centuriesAND wage disparities between genders, labor force participation, and educational attainment around the world. While enormous inequality remains, 2013 is looking to be the worst year for sexism in history.
   2. Cede the political - critique can only overcome power and produce change when articulated in the language of hegemony
   Kapoor, 2008 (Ilan, Associate Professor at the Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University, “The Postcolonial Politics of Development,” p. 138-139)
   There are perhaps several other social movement campaigns that could be cited as examples of a ‘hybridizing strategy’.5 But what emerges as important from the Chipko and NBA campaigns is the way in which they treat laws and policies, institutional practices, and ideological apparatuses as deconstructible. That is,  AND makes it difficult for {it}him not to take you seriously or grant you a certain legitimacy. The use of non-violent tactics may be crucial in this regard: state repression is easily justified against violent adversaries, but it is vulnerable to public criticism when used against non-violence. Thus, the fact that Chipko and the NBA deployed civil disobedience — pioneered, it must be pointed out, by the ‘father of the nation’ (i.e. Gandhi) — made it difficult for the state to quash them or deflect their claims.
   3. Non-concrete activism is WORSE THAN NOTHING. No Framework QUESTION can veer this round from the NEXUS QUESTION OF CONCRETE ALTS. Without those, we’re less effective activists. Bryant ‘12
    (Levi Bryant is currently a Professor of Philosophy at Collin College. In addition to working as a professor, Bryant has also served as a Lacanian psychoanalyst. He received his Ph.D. from Loyola University in Chicago, Illinois, where he originally studied 'disclosedness' with the Heidegger scholar Thomas Sheehan. Bryant later changed his dissertation topic to the transcendental empiricism of Gilles Deleuze,  “Critique of the Academic Left”, http://larvalsubject...-academic-left/)
   Our problem is that we seem perpetually stuck at phase 1 without ever explaining what is to be done at phase 2. Often the critiques  AND we need today, more than ever, is composition or carpentry.

Tournament: Apple Valley | Round: 1 | Opponent: Strake Jesuit | Judge: Paras Kumar
Intuitions AC

Part 1: Framework

I value morality. The good doesn’t reduce to natural facts, but rather to perception. Moore:
Which among the properties AND meant in medical science. 

Since good isn’t reducible to other natural properties, good is indefinable but observable. Moore 2:
I shall, therefore AND further defining ceases.

Because the good is an irreducible concept, the standard is intuitionism. Additionally, prefer:

1. Arguments are irrelevant to morality. We use intuitions-studies prove. Wright:
   The methodology employed AND judgments to the experimenter. 

2. Advocacy skills – analytic

3. Intuitions are the only thing that cannot be doubted. Prichard 1912:
(Does Moral Philosophy Rest on a Mistake. H. A. Prichard. Mind. Volume 21. English Philosopher. )
Now it is easy to show that the doubt whether A is B based on
AND
the doubt concerned, and that a doubt concerning this latter is impossible.

4. Analytic

5. Epistemology – Intuitions determine our beliefs.
Michael Huemer, Ethical Intuitionism. © 2005, http://spot.colorado.edu/~huemer/5.htm
Other things being equal, it is reasonable to assume that things are the way
AND
, which are based upon what seems to the skeptic to be true.

Few implications:

A) Analytic 

B) Analytic

C) Analytic

Impact-calculus:

Consequentialist impacts have a much lower strength of link to the framework: 

1. Analytic
   2. Analytic

3. Consequentialism is not inuitive. Anscombe:
Modern Moral Philosophy GEM Anscombe Philosophy 33, No. 124 January 1958 www.pitt.edu/mthompso/readings/mmp.pdf
It is possible, if one is allowed to proceed just by giving examples,
AND
do not want to argue with him; he shows a corrupt mind.

4. Analytic

Part 2: Advocacy

Resolved: The United States federal government will limit qualified immunity for police officers by changing the doctrinal formula to exclude liability unless the defendant’s conduct was clearly unconstitutional.

Jeffries 10 clarifies:
(John C. June. What’s Wrong With Qualified Immunity? University of Virginia Law School. Prominent law professor; former dean of the University of Virginia Law School. http://poseidon01.ssrn.com/delivery.php?ID=816116074064001018089031082074024081024036042028091005105067118026092072091073083126009003116014006009030066117023111106096083114026028080092004068107114106103086090081005076083066122121024099093102087065120066115123072112065127075080124112100007005068andEXT=pdf LS)
A second suggestion would be to change the doctrinal formula for qualified immunity. Rather
AND
be ―clearly unconstitutional.‖ Qualified immunity would be upheld under either formulation. 

Status quo qualified immunity makes it impossible to bring litigation against police officers to court. Meyers 96:
(Linda Ross. When Reasonable Minds Differ. New York Law Review. 1996. Professor of Law at Quinnipac School of Law. http://www.nyulawreview.org/sites/default/files/pdf/NYULawReview-71-6-Meyer.pdf LS)
From the perspective of legal indeterminacy, the levels of generality problem generates a paradox
AND
rules that makes them both general enough and specific enough to be useful.

Part 3: Contention

A. Common Social Duty

The plan limits qualified immunity for police officers if conduct is clearly morally outrageous-allows for common social duty to determine culpability. Jeffries 2:
In other circumstances AND is ―clearly unconstitutional.‖

Common social duty is based on intuitions and is ingrained in all of us. Jeffries 3:
What is AND has happened before

The plan prevents universally frowned upon behavior- intuitions and norm setting succeed. Meyers 96:
(Linda Ross. When Reasonable Minds Differ. New York Law Review. 1996. Professor of Law at Quinnipac School of Law. http://www.nyulawreview.org/sites/default/files/pdf/NYULawReview-71-6-Meyer.pdf LS)
The better approach to qualified immunity would acknowledge the extrajudicial source of commonsense values that
AND
it, regardless of whether a prior case on point is to be found

Underview: Structural Violence

By shifting the discussion from constitutional rights to reasonableness, the status quo obscures civil rights reform and protection. Hassel 99:
(Diana. Winter. Living a Lie: The Cost of Qualified Immunity. Missouri Law Review. Professor of Law at Roger Williams School of Law. http://scholarship.law.missouri.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3402andcontext=mlr LS
The emphasis that qualified immunity places on the reasonableness of the defendant's actions rather than
AND
of an open debate concerning which civil rights should be protected and how.

Court expansion of QI exacerbates racial discrimination in the criminal justice system—the law must be used to safeguard minority rights. Reinhardt ‘15
Michigan Law Review Volume 113 | Issue 7 2015 The Demise of Habeas Corpus and the Rise of Qualified Immunity: The Court's Ever Increasing Limitations on the Development and Enforcement of Constitutional Rights and Some Particularly Unfortunate Consequences Stephen R. Reinhardt United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
Unfortunately, the Court’s recent treatment of federal habeas law and qualified immunity evinces a
AND
decisions in other areas of the law,176 only exacerbated the problem.

Even if police officers were taken to court—it’s municipalities that would have to pay damages. Means no link to police enforcement DAs and the aff is key to challenging the state. Reinhardt ‘15
Michigan Law Review Volume 113 | Issue 7 2015 The Demise of Habeas Corpus and the Rise of Qualified Immunity: The Court's Ever Increasing Limitations on the Development and Enforcement of Constitutional Rights and Some Particularly Unfortunate Consequences Stephen R. Reinhardt United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Unfortunately, the Court’s actions no longer match its rhetoric. In fact, they
AND
reality the municipality that is relieved of its duty to compensate the victim of

Tournament: Voices | Round: Octas | Opponent: Harrison Wang | Judge: Arjun Tambe, David Dosch, Paras Kumar
same framework as stock ac

Plan text

Resolved: Countries ought to prohibit the production of nuclear power from high burn-up fuel. 

Hoffman ’13:
Ace Hoffman, an independent investigator, has been studying the problems of nuclear power for many decades.  His 2008 handbook of nuclear facts, called The Code Killers, is available for free download here: www.acehoffman.org SEPTEMBER 27, 2013 The Trouble with High Burn-Up Nuclear Fuel www.counterpunch.org/2013/09/27/the-trouble-with-high-burn-up-nuclear-fuel/
However, despite these “known unknowns,” high burn-up fuel is being
AND
to let the utilities get away with using high burn-up fuel!

Accidents Adv

Inherency

Spent fuel on the rise – doubling by 2048. Alvarez 8-11:
11 AUGUST 2016 Nuclear power plant? Or storage dump for hot radioactive waste? Robert Alvarez A senior scholar at the Institute for Policy Studies, Robert Alvarez served as senior policy adviser to the Energy Department's secretary and deputy assistant secretary for national security and the environment from 1993 to 1999. During this tenure, he led teams in North Korea to establish control of nuclear weapons materials. He also coordinated the Energy Department's nuclear material strategic planning and established the department's first asset management program. Before joining the Energy Department, Alvarez served for five years as a senior investigator for the US Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs, chaired by Sen. John Glenn, and as one of the Senate’s primary staff experts on the US nuclear weapons program. In 1975, Alvarez helped found and direct the Environmental Policy Institute, a respected national public interest organization. He also helped organize a successful lawsuit on behalf of the family of Karen Silkwood, a nuclear worker and active union member who was killed under mysterious circumstances in 1974. Alvarez has published articles in Science, the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, Technology Review, and The Washington Post. He has been featured in television programs such as NOVA and 60 Minutes. thebulletin.org/nuclear-power-plant-or-storage-dump-hot-radioactive-waste9775#.V63firJAd-8.twitter
In addition to generating electricity, US nuclear power plants are now major radioactive waste
AND
high burnup waste accounting for as much as 60 percent of the inventory. 

Ban needed now – must happen before future loading. Gilmore ‘14:
High Burnup Fuel Fact Sheet Posted on January 8, 2014 by Donna Gilmore High Burnup Nuclear Fuel Pushing the Safety Envelope by Marvin Resnikoff 1 and Donna Gilmore 2 January 2014 https://sanonofresafety.org/2014/01/08/high-burnup-fuel-fact-sheet-2/ Donna Gilmore is the founder of San Onofre Safety, an organization that provides factual government and scientific information on the serious safety issues found at the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station in Southern California. Since the closure of the nuclear reactors, the focus of the organization has turned from operational safety issues to issues of nuclear spent fuel storage at San Onofre and other California and U.S. locations. The San Onofre Safety website (sanonofresafety.org) is used around the world by journalists, engineers, elected officials, regulators and the general public for creditable sourced information on nuclear safety issues. Gilmore was part of local efforts to educate the public on the San Onofre steam generator problems. The reactors are permanently shut down. However, the 1680 metric tons of highly radioactive nuclear waste at the plant are still very active. Recent papers by Gilmore include: High Burnup Nuclear Fuel – Pushing the Safety Envelope (co‐authored with nuclear physicist Dr. Marvin Resnikoff), Diablo Canyon: Conditions for Stress Corrosion Cracking in Two Years, Reasons to Buy Thick Nuclear Waste Dry Storage Casks, and Myths About Nuclear Waste Storage. Gilmore has made presentations on nuclear waste storage issues at national, state and local venues, including the 2014 NRC Annual Spent Fuel Management Regulatory Conference, the 2015 California Democratic Convention (Environmental Caucus), the Malibu Democratic Club, the California Energy Commission, and California Coastal Commission, the Sierra Club and other NGO venues. Gilmore also educates federal, state and local regulators and elected officials and activists on critical nuclear waste storage issues. Gilmore has effectively advocated for improved nuclear waste storage safety evaluations in federal and state regulatory proceedings. She is an intervener in the CPUC $4.3 billon San Onofre Decommissioning proceeding, which may likely determine the future of nuclear waste storage at San Onofre. Gilmore has over 30 years experience in systems analysis and information technology project management including the design and implementation of major technology systems for the State of California and the management of a large engineering data center.
It is imperative to the NRC Stop approval of high burnup fuel (
AND
8 GWd/MTU, according to the Nuclear Energy Institute.24

Links

A) High burnup fuel is awful: A) It cracks and thins the cladding. B) It’s twice as radioactive and hot C) Cooling pools are already densely packed, magnifying accident risks. Gilmore TWO:
High Burnup Fuel Fact Sheet Posted on January 8, 2014 by Donna Gilmore High Burnup Nuclear Fuel Pushing the Safety Envelope by Marvin Resnikoff 1 and Donna Gilmore 2 January 2014 https://sanonofresafety.org/2014/01/08/high-burnup-fuel-fact-sheet-2/ Donna Gilmore is the founder of San Onofre Safety, an organization that provides factual government and scientific information on the serious safety issues found at the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station in Southern California. Since the closure of the nuclear reactors, the focus of the organization has turned from operational safety issues to issues of nuclear spent fuel storage at San Onofre and other California and U.S. locations. The San Onofre Safety website (sanonofresafety.org) is used around the world by journalists, engineers, elected officials, regulators and the general public for creditable sourced information on nuclear safety issues. Gilmore was part of local efforts to educate the public on the San Onofre steam generator problems. The reactors are permanently shut down. However, the 1680 metric tons of highly radioactive nuclear waste at the plant are still very active. Recent papers by Gilmore include: High Burnup Nuclear Fuel – Pushing the Safety Envelope (co‐authored with nuclear physicist Dr. Marvin Resnikoff), Diablo Canyon: Conditions for Stress Corrosion Cracking in Two Years, Reasons to Buy Thick Nuclear Waste Dry Storage Casks, and Myths About Nuclear Waste Storage. Gilmore has made presentations on nuclear waste storage issues at national, state and local venues, including the 2014 NRC Annual Spent Fuel Management Regulatory Conference, the 2015 California Democratic Convention (Environmental Caucus), the Malibu Democratic Club, the California Energy Commission, and California Coastal Commission, the Sierra Club and other NGO venues. Gilmore also educates federal, state and local regulators and elected officials and activists on critical nuclear waste storage issues. Gilmore has effectively advocated for improved nuclear waste storage safety evaluations in federal and state regulatory proceedings. She is an intervener in the CPUC $4.3 billon San Onofre Decommissioning proceeding, which may likely determine the future of nuclear waste storage at San Onofre. Gilmore has over 30 years experience in systems analysis and information technology project management including the design and implementation of major technology systems for the State of California and the management of a large engineering data center.
As commercial reactor economics have declined, utilities, with the acquiescence of the Nuclear
AND
pool densities present an even greater risk due to inclusion of HBF assemblies.

B) This is a criticality event waiting to happen - Squo cladding was not designed for high burn-up fuel. Hoffman ’13:
Ace Hoffman, an independent investigator, has been studying the problems of nuclear power for many decades.  His 2008 handbook of nuclear facts, called The Code Killers, is available for free download here: www.acehoffman.org SEPTEMBER 27, 2013 The Trouble with High Burn-Up Nuclear Fuel www.counterpunch.org/2013/09/27/the-trouble-with-high-burn-up-nuclear-fuel/
Additionally, in high burn-up fuel, the ceramic pellets of Uranium Dioxide
AND
to let the utilities get away with using high burn-up fuel!

C) Transportation risks are real. Gilmore THREE:
High Burnup Fuel Fact Sheet Posted on January 8, 2014 by Donna Gilmore High Burnup Nuclear Fuel Pushing the Safety Envelope by Marvin Resnikoff 1 and Donna Gilmore 2 January 2014 https://sanonofresafety.org/2014/01/08/high-burnup-fuel-fact-sheet-2/ Donna Gilmore is the founder of San Onofre Safety, an organization that provides factual government and scientific information on the serious safety issues found at the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station in Southern California. Since the closure of the nuclear reactors, the focus of the organization has turned from operational safety issues to issues of nuclear spent fuel storage at San Onofre and other California and U.S. locations. The San Onofre Safety website (sanonofresafety.org) is used around the world by journalists, engineers, elected officials, regulators and the general public for creditable sourced information on nuclear safety issues. Gilmore was part of local efforts to educate the public on the San Onofre steam generator problems. The reactors are permanently shut down. However, the 1680 metric tons of highly radioactive nuclear waste at the plant are still very active. Recent papers by Gilmore include: High Burnup Nuclear Fuel – Pushing the Safety Envelope (co‐authored with nuclear physicist Dr. Marvin Resnikoff), Diablo Canyon: Conditions for Stress Corrosion Cracking in Two Years, Reasons to Buy Thick Nuclear Waste Dry Storage Casks, and Myths About Nuclear Waste Storage. Gilmore has made presentations on nuclear waste storage issues at national, state and local venues, including the 2014 NRC Annual Spent Fuel Management Regulatory Conference, the 2015 California Democratic Convention (Environmental Caucus), the Malibu Democratic Club, the California Energy Commission, and California Coastal Commission, the Sierra Club and other NGO venues. Gilmore also educates federal, state and local regulators and elected officials and activists on critical nuclear waste storage issues. Gilmore has effectively advocated for improved nuclear waste storage safety evaluations in federal and state regulatory proceedings. She is an intervener in the CPUC $4.3 billon San Onofre Decommissioning proceeding, which may likely determine the future of nuclear waste storage at San Onofre. Gilmore has over 30 years experience in systems analysis and information technology project management including the design and implementation of major technology systems for the State of California and the management of a large engineering data center.
As commercial reactor economics have declined, utilities, with the acquiescence of the Nuclear
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easily shatter the brittle cladding. HBF has over twice the cesium inventory.

D) Fires eat through shielding. Gilmore FOUR:
High Burnup Fuel Fact Sheet Posted on January 8, 2014 by Donna Gilmore High Burnup Nuclear Fuel Pushing the Safety Envelope by Marvin Resnikoff 1 and Donna Gilmore 2 January 2014 https://sanonofresafety.org/2014/01/08/high-burnup-fuel-fact-sheet-2/ Donna Gilmore is the founder of San Onofre Safety, an organization that provides factual government and scientific information on the serious safety issues found at the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station in Southern California. Since the closure of the nuclear reactors, the focus of the organization has turned from operational safety issues to issues of nuclear spent fuel storage at San Onofre and other California and U.S. locations. The San Onofre Safety website (sanonofresafety.org) is used around the world by journalists, engineers, elected officials, regulators and the general public for creditable sourced information on nuclear safety issues. Gilmore was part of local efforts to educate the public on the San Onofre steam generator problems. The reactors are permanently shut down. However, the 1680 metric tons of highly radioactive nuclear waste at the plant are still very active. Recent papers by Gilmore include: High Burnup Nuclear Fuel – Pushing the Safety Envelope (co‐authored with nuclear physicist Dr. Marvin Resnikoff), Diablo Canyon: Conditions for Stress Corrosion Cracking in Two Years, Reasons to Buy Thick Nuclear Waste Dry Storage Casks, and Myths About Nuclear Waste Storage. Gilmore has made presentations on nuclear waste storage issues at national, state and local venues, including the 2014 NRC Annual Spent Fuel Management Regulatory Conference, the 2015 California Democratic Convention (Environmental Caucus), the Malibu Democratic Club, the California Energy Commission, and California Coastal Commission, the Sierra Club and other NGO venues. Gilmore also educates federal, state and local regulators and elected officials and activists on critical nuclear waste storage issues. Gilmore has effectively advocated for improved nuclear waste storage safety evaluations in federal and state regulatory proceedings. She is an intervener in the CPUC $4.3 billon San Onofre Decommissioning proceeding, which may likely determine the future of nuclear waste storage at San Onofre. Gilmore has over 30 years experience in systems analysis and information technology project management including the design and implementation of major technology systems for the State of California and the management of a large engineering data center.
There are serious unanswered questions about long duration, high temperature fires and effect on
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particular concern with HBF, with large Cesium inventories and suspect fuel cladding.

E) Aging plants compound the risk. Alvarez TWO:
11 AUGUST 2016 Nuclear power plant? Or storage dump for hot radioactive waste? Robert Alvarez A senior scholar at the Institute for Policy Studies, Robert Alvarez served as senior policy adviser to the Energy Department's secretary and deputy assistant secretary for national security and the environment from 1993 to 1999. During this tenure, he led teams in North Korea to establish control of nuclear weapons materials. He also coordinated the Energy Department's nuclear material strategic planning and established the department's first asset management program. Before joining the Energy Department, Alvarez served for five years as a senior investigator for the US Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs, chaired by Sen. John Glenn, and as one of the Senate’s primary staff experts on the US nuclear weapons program. In 1975, Alvarez helped found and direct the Environmental Policy Institute, a respected national public interest organization. He also helped organize a successful lawsuit on behalf of the family of Karen Silkwood, a nuclear worker and active union member who was killed under mysterious circumstances in 1974. Alvarez has published articles in Science, the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, Technology Review, and The Washington Post. He has been featured in television programs such as NOVA and 60 Minutes. thebulletin.org/nuclear-power-plant-or-storage-dump-hot-radioactive-waste9775#.V63firJAd-8.twitter
The uncertainties of storing a mix of high- and low-burnup spent fuel
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leakage from the SFPs spent fuel pools and reactor refueling cavities.” 

F) Regulators are incompetent. Gottfried ’06:
Climate Change and Nuclear Power Author(s): Kurt Gottfried Source: Social Research , Vol. 73, No. 3, Politics and Science: How Their Interplay Results in Public Policy (FALL 2006), pp. 1011-1024 Published by: The New School Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/40971865 Accessed: 14-08-2016 00:44 UTC
In the last two decades the American nuclear power industry has learned how to operate
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NRC has not implemented a quarter of its "high priority lessons learned." 

G) Regulators fail specifically with high burn-up fuel: 1) You literally can’t study the insides of casks with high burnup fuel since they’re too hot. 2) Lack of studies on safe management – regulation CPs are at best a guess. 3) Regulators don’t address known risks. Alvarez THREE:
11 AUGUST 2016 Nuclear power plant? Or storage dump for hot radioactive waste? Robert Alvarez A senior scholar at the Institute for Policy Studies, Robert Alvarez served as senior policy adviser to the Energy Department's secretary and deputy assistant secretary for national security and the environment from 1993 to 1999. During this tenure, he led teams in North Korea to establish control of nuclear weapons materials. He also coordinated the Energy Department's nuclear material strategic planning and established the department's first asset management program. Before joining the Energy Department, Alvarez served for five years as a senior investigator for the US Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs, chaired by Sen. John Glenn, and as one of the Senate’s primary staff experts on the US nuclear weapons program. In 1975, Alvarez helped found and direct the Environmental Policy Institute, a respected national public interest organization. He also helped organize a successful lawsuit on behalf of the family of Karen Silkwood, a nuclear worker and active union member who was killed under mysterious circumstances in 1974. Alvarez has published articles in Science, the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, Technology Review, and The Washington Post. He has been featured in television programs such as NOVA and 60 Minutes. thebulletin.org/nuclear-power-plant-or-storage-dump-hot-radioactive-waste9775#.V63firJAd-8.twitter
In addition to generating electricity, US nuclear power plants are now major radioactive waste
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large, unfunded radioactive waste “balloon mortgage” payments in the future.

Impact

Spent fuel is one of the most hazardous substances on Earth. Alvarez FOUR:
11 AUGUST 2016 Nuclear power plant? Or storage dump for hot radioactive waste? Robert Alvarez A senior scholar at the Institute for Policy Studies, Robert Alvarez served as senior policy adviser to the Energy Department's secretary and deputy assistant secretary for national security and the environment from 1993 to 1999. During this tenure, he led teams in North Korea to establish control of nuclear weapons materials. He also coordinated the Energy Department's nuclear material strategic planning and established the department's first asset management program. Before joining the Energy Department, Alvarez served for five years as a senior investigator for the US Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs, chaired by Sen. John Glenn, and as one of the Senate’s primary staff experts on the US nuclear weapons program. In 1975, Alvarez helped found and direct the Environmental Policy Institute, a respected national public interest organization. He also helped organize a successful lawsuit on behalf of the family of Karen Silkwood, a nuclear worker and active union member who was killed under mysterious circumstances in 1974. Alvarez has published articles in Science, the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, Technology Review, and The Washington Post. He has been featured in television programs such as NOVA and 60 Minutes. thebulletin.org/nuclear-power-plant-or-storage-dump-hot-radioactive-waste9775#.V63firJAd-8.twitter

In addition to generating electricity, US nuclear power plants are now major radioactive waste management operations, storing concentrations of radioactivity that dwarf those generated by the country's nuclear weapons program. Because the proposed Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository remains in limbo, and other permanent storage plans are in their infancy, these wastes are likely to remain in interim storage at commercial reactor sites for the indefinite future. This reality raises one issue of particular concern—how to store the high-burnup nuclear fuel used by most US utilities. An Energy Department expert panel has raised questions that suggest neither government regulators nor the utilities operating commercial nuclear power plants understand the potential impact of used high-burnup fuel on storage and transport of used nuclear fuel, and, ultimately, on the cost of nuclear waste management. Spent nuclear power fuel accumulated over the past 50 years is bound up in more than 241,000 long rectangular assemblies containing tens of millions of fuel rods. The rods, in turn, contain trillions of small, irradiated uranium pellets. After bombardment with neutrons in the reactor core, about 5 to 6 percent of the pellets are converted to a myriad of radioactive elements with half-lives ranging from seconds to millions of years. Standing within a meter of a typical spent nuclear fuel assembly guarantees a lethal radiation dose in minutes. Heat from the radioactive decay in spent nuclear fuel is also a principal safety concern. Several hours after a full reactor core is offloaded, it can initially give off enough heat from radioactive decay to match the energy capacity of a steel mill furnace. This is hot enough to melt and ignite the fuel’s reactive zirconium cladding and destabilize a geological disposal site it is placed in. By 100 years, decay heat and radioactivity drop substantially but still remain dangerous. For these reasons, the US Government Accountability Office (GAO) informed the Congress in 2013 that spent nuclear fuel is “considered one of the most hazardous substances on Earth.” US commercial nuclear power plants use uranium fuel that has had the percentage of its key fissionable isotope—uranium 235—increased, or enriched, from what is found in most natural uranium ore deposits. In the early decades of commercial operation, the level of enrichment allowed US nuclear power plants to operate for approximately 12 months between refueling.

Nuclear accidents A) pollute half the globe and B) risk extinction. Lendman 11:
Stephen Lendman. The People’s Voice: News and Viewpoints. “Nuclear meltdown in Japan,” March 13th, 2011. http://www.thepeoplesvoice.org/TPV3/Voices.php/2011/03/13/nuclear-meltdown-in-japan Stephen Lendman was born in 1934 in Boston, MA. In 1956, he received a BA from Harvard University. Two years of US Army service followed, then an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania in 1960. After working seven years as a marketing research analyst, he joined the Lendman Group family business in 1967. He remained there until retiring at year end 1999. Writing on major world and national issues began in summer 2005. In early 2007, radio hosting followed. Lendman now hosts the Progressive Radio News Hour on the Progressive Radio Network three times weekly. Distinguished guests are featured. Listen live or achived. Major world and national issues are discussed. Lendman is a 2008 Project Censored winner and 2011 Mexican Journalists Club international journalism award recipient.
For years, Helen Caldicott warned it's coming. In her 1978 book, "
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under control, but coverup and denial concealed full details until much later.

Tournament: Voices RR | Round: 1 | Opponent: Pingry AG | Judge: Nick Steele and Calen Smith
The standard is minimizing existential risk.

Inherency
Resolved: Countries ought to prohibit the production of nuclear power. 

Nuclear energy is booming – conservative estimates from multiple experts agree. Bauer ’12:
Bauer, Nico, Robert J. Brecha, and Gunnar Luderer. "Economics of Nuclear Power and Climate Change Mitigation Policies." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America109.42 (2012): 16805-6810. Web.
Because nuclear power results in no direct Co2 emissions, some see it to be
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increase only 39 by 2030 without climate change mitigation policies (7).

NP high in the squo. Palliser ’12:
Palliser, Janna. "Nuclear Energy." Science Scope 35.5 (2012): 14-18. Web.
The United States has 104 AND in a chain reaction.

Nuclear Terror Advantage

Terrorists want nukes. Tucker 16:
(One, By Patrick Tucker Defense. "ISIS May Be Closer to Nuclear Weapons Than You Think." The Fiscal Times. The Fiscal Times, 30 Mar. 2016. Web. 08 Oct. 2016. LS)
The murder of a security guard at a Belgian nuclear facility just two days after
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and the long-term danger to survivors, first responders, etc. 

Terrorists can steal plutonium from a nuclear power plant and make a nuclear bomb-the threat is real. Drey 96:
(Drey, Kay. "Nuclear Power Plant Fuel--a Source of Plutonium for Weapons? - NIRS." Nuclear Power Plant Fuel--a Source of Plutonium for Weapons? - NIRS. NIRS, 19 July 1996. Web. 08 Oct. 2016. LS)
Many people may not realize that every nuclear power plant -- as a normal part
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and the plutonium they generate threaten the hope for world peace and survival.

Nuclear terrorism causes extinction.
Morgan :
10. 4 In Section 1, Moore points out what most terrorists obviously
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, to a life of unimaginable misery and suffering in a nuclear winter.

Meltdowns Advantage

Terrorists can and will attack nuclear power plants. Grossman 16:
(Grossman, Karl. "What Happens When Nuclear Power Plants Are Targeted by Terrorists? - NationofChange." NationofChange. Nation of Change, 30 Mar. 2016. Web. 08 Oct. 2016. LS)
Pre-deployed weapons of mass destruction. That’s what nuclear power plants are.
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excluded. Member states need to have sustained interest in strengthening nuclear security. 

Meltdowns are likely and cause extinction. Hodges 14:
(Hodges, Dave. "Nuclear Power Plants Will Become America's Extinction Level Event." The Common Sense Show. The Common Sense Show, 14 Apr. 2014. Web. 08 Oct. 2016. LS)
Fukushima is often spoken of by many, as a possible extinction level event because
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the Chinese to park right next door to so many nuclear power plants?

Prolif Advantage

Nuclear power causes weapons proliferation. Gottfried ’06:
Gottfried, Kurt. "Climate Change and Nuclear Power." Social Research 73.3 (2006): 1011-024. Web.
A nuclear chain reaction can take place in suitably configured assemblies of either of the
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and carbon-neutral technologies will not suffice to meet the climate challenge.

The countries on verge of nuclear energy lack safety – this is a huge prolif risk. Fieveson ’09:
Fieveson 09 (Fieveson, Harold A. "A Skeptic's View of Nuclear Energy." On the Global Nuclear Future 1 (2009): n. pag. Web. 22 Sept. 2016.)LS
The short story is that between 2007-2030, forecasts for OECD + Russia
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safeguards regime, as currently implemented, are capable of meeting this challenge.

Every conflict will go nuclear – extinction. Taylor, 2002
Taylor 02 (Taylor, Stuart. “Invading Iraq Wouldn’t Necessarily Make Us Safer.” September 2002. 22 Sept. 2016)LS
. The truth is, no matter what we do about Iraq, if we
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nuclear weapons, excepting only those necessary to deter nuclear attack by others.

Bio-D Advantage

Uranium mining kills biodiversity. CBD ND
CBD ND (Uranium: The Problem." Center for Biological Diversity. Nonprofit dedicated to protecting biodiversity, N.p., n.d. Web. 1 Oct. 2016.)LS
Radiological and heavy-metal contamination go hand-in-hand with uranium development
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today’s boom threatens to build upon uranium’s legacy of environmental and social harm.

Biodiversity decline is the biggest impact
Chen 2k (Chen 2K (Chen, Jim. Professor of Law and Vance K. Opperman Research Scholar, University of Minnesota Law School, "Globalization and Its Losers." Global Trade 157 (2000): n. pag. Web. 14 Aug. 2016.)
Conscious decisions to allow the extinction of a species or the destruction of an entire
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Homo sapiens -- in ten million years, perhaps a hundred million. 348

Warming 

Nuclear reactors can’t solve global warming-they only result in more emissions. NIRS 14:
(NUCLEAR POWER AND CLIMATE: WHY NUKES CAN’T SAVE THE PLANET. N.p.: NIRS, June 2014. PDF. LS)
NUKES ARE NOT CARBON-FREE While atomic reactors themselves are not major emitters of
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Rising sea levels threaten coastal reactors with flooding even without mega-storms.