Tournament: Pawn Shop Invitational | Round: Quads | Opponent: Rick Harrison | Judge: Old Man and Big Hoss
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Tournament: Loyola | Round: 3 | Opponent: La Reina AC | Judge: Felix Tan
Nuclear power only option for desalination plant development, tipping point almost reached
IAEA 15
(- widely known as the world's "Atoms for Peace" organization within the United Nations family. Set up in 1957 as the world's centre for cooperation in the nuclear field, the Agency works with its Member States and multiple partners worldwide to promote the safe, secure and peaceful use of nuclear technologies, "New Technologies for Seawater Desalination Using Nuclear Energy," IEAE TecDoc Series, 2015~
Currently, it is estimated that one-fifth of the world population
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delivering the copious quantities of energy required for large-scale desalination projects.

Nuclear powered desalination is the only way to maintain water supplies, conservation and renewables insufficient
Gary Sandquist, 08
May 2008, (Gary M Sandquist is a professor emeritus at the University of Utah) http://www.deseretnews.com/article/700229065/N-technology-could-quench-water-woes.html
If there is an essential resource that surpasses energy and is requisite to sustain life
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and lead the effort to ensure adequate supplies of life's elixir — water.

Water scarcities causes international wars
Rasmussen 11
April, 2012 (Erik, CEO, Monday Morning; Founder, Green Growth Leaders) "Prepare for the Next Conflict: Water Wars" http://www.huffingtonpost.com/erik-rasmussen/water-wars_b_844101.html
The worst water-effects of the climate change have yet to emerge. As
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goes far beyond regional and national initiatives — we need a global water plan

Water wars go nuclear
Musharaf Zahoor, 11
August, 2011 (The writer is a researcher at Department of Nuclear Politics, National Defence University, Islamabad) http://www.siasat.pk/forum/showthread.php?77008-Water-Crisis-can-Trigger-Nuclear-War-in-South-Asia
Water is an ambient source, which unlike human beings does not respect boundaries.
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being faced by Pakistan, which can only be resolved through political will.

Nuclear War leads to extinction, outweighs all other impacts
Starr, 15
Steven Starr, The New York Academy of Medicine, March 2015, https://ratical.org/radiation/NuclearExtinction/StevenStarr022815.html
In 1945, Albert Einstein said, "The release of atomic power has changed
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house-cat-crossed-with-a-teddy-bear/

Tournament: Voices | Round: 3 | Opponent: La Costa Canyon AT | Judge: Jackson Lallas
Text: Countries ought to preserve nuclear power plants as historical monuments
Storm 1:
Anna Storm, “Nuclear Power Plants as Memory Sites”, January 31, 2011, (Postdoc at CBEES. Her dissertation Hope and Rust: Reinterpreting the Industrial Place in the Late 20th Century was published in 2008.)
Is it possible
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Ignalina in Lithuania

The CP is competitive- decommissioning by normal means doesn't allow for preservation
Farrow 1:
Elizabeth Chapin Farrow, “A new life: adaptive reuse and redevelopment of decommissioned commercial nuclear power plants” University of Florida 2008 http://etd.fcla.edu/UF/UFE0023705/farrow_e.pdf
As previously described in Chapter 2, there are three main methods of decommissioning:
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Preservation Methods should be combined to allow for flexibility at sites facing decommissioning.

Historical monuments are k2 local economy and public awareness
Farrow 2
Elizabeth Chapin Farrow, “A new life: adaptive reuse and redevelopment of decommissioned commercial nuclear power plants” University of Florida 2008 http://etd.fcla.edu/UF/UFE0023705/farrow_e.pdf
Benefits to Reusing Commercial Nuclear Power Plants Despite the aforementioned challenges, there are many
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they are found in, as well as those who visit the site.

Preserving these sites as monuments solves better than the aff by reconciling with the past
Storm 2:
Anna Storm, “Nuclear Power Plants as Memory Sites”, January 31, 2011, (Postdoc at CBEES. Her dissertation Hope and Rust: Reinterpreting the Industrial Place in the Late 20th Century was published in 2008.)
A third track to follow concerns cultural heritage as a double-edged sword.
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a conversion to tourist destination be an expression of reconciliation with the past?

Rupturing presentism is essential in challenging dominant ideology by forcing awareness of those silenced and hidden by history
Lo '14, Jacqueline (Director Centre for European Studies, Astralian National University), "The Politics of Interweaving Performance Cultures: Beyond Postcolonialism", Chapter 6: Dancing For The Dead, Routledge, 2014,
The field of intercultural theatre, as noted by many in this collection, has
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, something different from before, seems like it must be done.'

Tournament: Voices | Round: 3 | Opponent: La Costa Canyon AT | Judge: Jackson Lallas
Counterplan Text: Current nuclear reactors will switch nuclear reactors to thorium-based fuels.
Hadhazy '14
Adam Hadhazy, "Why Aren't We Using Thorium in Nuclear Reactors?" Discover Magazine. 5/7/2014. http://discovermagazine.com/2014/june/3-ask-discover
It's certainly possible
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in its development.

Thorium prevents accidental meltdowns.
Warmflash (1) 15
David Warmflash, "Thorium Power is a Safer Nuclear Energy" Discover Magazine. 1/16/2015.
To keep the process going, the U-233 must be created continuously by
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happens the hot liquid would all drain out and the reaction would stop.

Thorium solves nuclear waste, mining accidents, and nuclear proliferation. Warmflash (2) 15
David Warmflash, "Thorium Power is a Safer Nuclear Energy" Discover Magazine. 1/16/2015.
Thorium power has other attractions, too. Its production of nuclear
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-232, unless they had a robot to carry out the task.

Thorium reactors can run indefinitely and safely dispose of nuclear waste, solves for the AC harms
Mark Halper, 13
April 2013, Weinberg Foundation, "How thorium can solve the nuclear waste problem in conventional reactors", (We are a non-partisan, diverse group of people with one thing in common: we care deeply about the pivotal role of energy technology in stopping climate change and creating a better world. ), http://www.the-weinberg-foundation.org/2013/04/05/how-thorium-can-solve-the-nuclear-waste-problem-in-conventional-reactors/
Thorium mixed with plutonium and other actinide "waste" could continuously power modified conventional
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that forever – until the world runs out of thorium," notes Parks.

Tournament: Voices | Round: 3 | Opponent: La Costa Canyon AT | Judge: Jackson Lallas
The affirmative transforms ecological protection into an ideology that serves as the ultimate agency of control and functions as the new opium for the masses. Trying to give meaning to ecological crisis is our way of transforming nature into the object of our desire and thus establishes a framework of fantasy. By mystifying the very nature of the ecological problem we paralyze action which turns case.
Zizek 09, Slavoj (High theory ninja) June 01, 2009 "Examined Life: Excursions with Contemporary Thinkers" The New Press http://phiorg.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Zizek-on-ecology.pdf SHSAM
The same thing goes for ecology. Of course ecology is the question today,
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-balance, of self-reproduction, to which we should return. 

They will say that their impacts are grounded in fact and reality, but mystification scapegoats ecology as the primary issue concealing and twisting the real problems underneath.
Zizek 09, Slavoj (High theory ninja) June 01, 2009 "Examined Life: Excursions with Contemporary Thinkers" The New Press http://phiorg.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Zizek-on-ecology.pdf SHSAM
ZIZEK: Yes, it may appear that ecology has nothing to do with ideology
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as innocent as it appears, that it is always contaminated by ideology. 

The alternative is to aestheticize trash. Nature is seen as a perfect being polluted by human actions, and in order to subvert this, we must embrace the flip side of the coin: the trash that we ignore and seek to dispose of.
Zizek 09, Slavoj (High theory ninja) June 01, 2009 "Examined Life: Excursions with Contemporary Thinkers" The New Press http://phiorg.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Zizek-on-ecology.pdf SHSAM
ZIZEK: When we are standing where I am standing now, with a lot
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of emotional attachment to, or to find meaning in, useless objects.

The alternative is key to re-inscribing meaning to life on this planet riddled with imperfections. We must stop blaming humans for tainting nature and instead embrace that nature is screwed up.
Zizek 09, Slavoj (High theory ninja) June 01, 2009 "Examined Life: Excursions with Contemporary Thinkers" The New Press http://phiorg.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Zizek-on-ecology.pdf SHSAM
Since we are here in London, this is why one of my favorite British
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to drop this heavily ideolog-ically mythological, invested notion of nature.

Tournament: Loyola | Round: 1 | Opponent: Quarry Lane LL | Judge: Nick Steele
The affirmative transforms ecological protection into an ideology that serves as the ultimate agency of control and functions as the new opium for the masses. Trying to give meaning to ecological crisis is our way of transforming nature into the object of our desire and thus establishes a framework of fantasy. By mystifying the very nature of the ecological problem we paralyze action which turns case.
Zizek 09, Slavoj (High theory ninja) June 01, 2009 "Examined Life: Excursions with Contemporary Thinkers" The New Press http://phiorg.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Zizek-on-ecology.pdf SHSAM
The same thing goes for ecology. Of course ecology is the question today,
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-balance, of self-reproduction, to which we should return. 

They will say that their impacts are grounded in fact and reality, but mystification scapegoats ecology as the primary issue concealing and twisting the real problems underneath.
Zizek 09, Slavoj (High theory ninja) June 01, 2009 "Examined Life: Excursions with Contemporary Thinkers" The New Press http://phiorg.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Zizek-on-ecology.pdf SHSAM
ZIZEK: Yes, it may appear that ecology has nothing to do with ideology
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as innocent as it appears, that it is always contaminated by ideology. 

The alternative is to aestheticize trash. Nature is seen as a perfect being polluted by human actions, and in order to subvert this, we must embrace the flip side of the coin: the trash that we ignore and seek to dispose of.
Zizek 09, Slavoj (High theory ninja) June 01, 2009 "Examined Life: Excursions with Contemporary Thinkers" The New Press http://phiorg.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Zizek-on-ecology.pdf SHSAM
ZIZEK: When we are standing where I am standing now, with a lot
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of emotional attachment to, or to find meaning in, useless objects.

The alternative is key to re-inscribing meaning to life on this planet riddled with imperfections. We must stop blaming humans for tainting nature and instead embrace that nature is screwed up.
Zizek 09, Slavoj (High theory ninja) June 01, 2009 "Examined Life: Excursions with Contemporary Thinkers" The New Press http://phiorg.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Zizek-on-ecology.pdf SHSAM
Since we are here in London, this is why one of my favorite British
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to drop this heavily ideolog-ically mythological, invested notion of nature.

Tournament: Voices | Round: 3 | Opponent: La Costa Canyon AT | Judge: Jackson Lallas
Nuclear power is expanding steadily worldwide. WNA 16
World Nuclear Association.  (The World Nuclear Association is the international organization that represents the global nuclear industry. Its mission is to promote a wider understanding of nuclear energy among key international influencers by producing authoritative information, developing common industry positions, and contributing to the energy debate).  April 2016.SyoJW
Nuclear power capacity worldwide is increasing steadily, with over 60 reactors under construction in
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these provided 2411 billion kWh, over 11 of the world's electricity.

The scale of the challenge is too big – need nuclear energy to just avoid a 450ppm threshold.  Harvey 12
Fiona Harvey.   (Fiona Harvey is an award-winning environment journalist for the Guardian. Prior to this, she worked for the Financial Times for more than a decade. She has reported on every major environmental issue, from as far afield as the Arctic and the Amazon, and her wide range of interviewees include Ban Ki-moon, Tony Blair, Al Gore and Jeff Immelt).  "Nuclear power is only solution to climate change, says Jeffrey Sachs".  The Guardian.  May 3, 2012.SyoJW
But Sachs, director of the Earth Institute and professor of sustainable development at Columbia
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are much more powerful than the arithmetic of climate scientists," he said.

Nuclear Power is critical to reducing GHG emissions. Fossil fuels like coal would be damning.  Kharecha and Hansen 13
Pushker A. Kharecha and James E. Hansen.  (Kharecha is a researcher at the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies and Hansen is a researcher at Columbia University)  "Prevented Mortality and Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Historical and Projected Nuclear Power.  Environmental Science and Technology.  March 15, 2013.SyoJW
GHG Emissions. We calculate that world nuclear power generation prevented an average of 64
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the next few decades (derived by dividing 80 and 240 by 500).

Plan makes emissions increase substantially – study is an underestimate b/c it studies the Low Nuclear Case.  IEA 11.
International Energy Agency. (World Energy Outlook 2011 brings together the latest data, policy developments, and the experience of another year to provide robust analysis and insight into global energy markets, today and for the next 25 years. This edition of the IEA's flagship WEO publication gives the latest energy demand and supply projections for different future scenarios, broken down by country, fuel and sector). "World Energy Outlook". 2011.SyoJW
One of the major advantages of nuclear power compared with electricity generated from fossil fuels
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 of the increase comes from power plants in non-OECD countries.

Climate change disproportionally affects minoritarian groups despite the fact that they have contributed the least to the problem — fighting climate change means fighting oppression.
Pellow 12, David Naguib, (Ph.D. Professor, Don Martindale Endowed Chair – University of Minnesota) February 2012, "Climate Disruption in the Global South and in African American Communities: Key Issues, Frameworks, and Possibilities for Climate Justice," http://www.jointcenter.org/sites/default/files/upload/research/files/White_Paper_Climate_Disruption_final.pdf SHSAM
While contributing the least of anyone to the causes of climate disruption, people of
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, and economic justice is inseparable from any effort to combat climate disruption.