Tournament: Loyola | Round: 1 | Opponent: any | Judge: any
Nuclear energy is crucial to maintaining stability of the electric grid—several warrants
Bayh et al 15
Former United States Senator and former Governor of Indiana; “Nuclear Benefits: Always-On Reliability,” Nuclear Matters, Dec 03 2015 *Note: author inferred
The reliability of the electric grid depends on nuclear energy. One-fifth of
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important for reliability purposes as more intermittent resources are added to the mix.”
Lack of accessibility increases probability of cyberattacks—those threaten the US grid
Mills 16
Mark P Mills is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, CEO of the Digital Power Group (a tech-centric capital advisory group), faculty fellow at Northwestern’s McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science, and an advisory board member of Notre Dame University’s Reilly Center for Science, Technology, and Values; “EXPOSED HOW AMERICA’S ELECTRIC GRIDS ARE BECOMING GREENER, SMARTER— AND MORE VULNERABLE,” June 2016, Manhattan Institute
State and federal mandates (including the federal Clean Power Plan) seek to move
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the control systems embedded in many solar panels and wind turbines themselves.78
Cyberattacks causes miscalc—goes nuclear war
Robert Tilford 12, Graduate US Army Airborne School, Ft. Benning, Georgia, “Cyber attackers could shut down the electric grid for the entire east coast” 2012, http://www.examiner.com/article/cyber-attackers-could-easily-shut-down-the-electric-grid-for-the-entire-east-coa *we don’t agree with the albeist language
To make matters worse a cyber attack that can take out a civilian power grid
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include the use of “nuclear weapons”, if authorized by the President.
Also causes structural violence—poorer communities disproportionally affected by grid breakdowns
Rodriguez 10
Rev. Samuel Rodriguez is the President of the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference. The NHCLC is the nation’s largest Hispanic Christian organization representing millions of Evangelicals and more than 40,000 U.S. Churches and seeks to reconcile evangelist Billy Graham’s message of salvation with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s march of prophetic activism through its “7 Directives” of Life, Family, Compassionate Evangelism, Stewardship, Justice, Education and Youth., “Environmental injustice in espanol,” Canada Free Press
Yes, poor families, including many Hispanics, find it hard to pay
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microscopic soot now come from volcanoes, forest fires, and overseas sources.
