Tournament: Yale | Round: 2 | Opponent: na | Judge: na
A is Text: Countries ought to develop once-through nuclear reactors into closed fuel cycle reactors.
Beckjord, Eric S., et al. "The future of nuclear power: An interdisciplinary MIT study." Boston, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) (2003).

define closed cycle:
In the closed fuel cycle today, the spent

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will significantly reduce the long-term radioactivity of the nuclear waste.

Sutherland 04 Former adjunct professor in nuclear safety at the University of New Brunswick Sutherland, John K. "The Nuclear Reactor Closed Cycle." New Brunswick, Canada (2004).

The avoidance of proliferation risks

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opens up the vast resource of energy contained in the much more abundant thorium-232.

B is Competition through

1.    analytic
   2.    Net benefits
   1st is mitigating harms of the permanent nature of radioactive waste
   Taebi 10 “The Burden of Nuclear Waste,” The New York Times
   One of the key differentiating features between the

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the lifetime of radioactive waste is reduced to about 10,000 years.

2nd is reducing energy waste from one time disposable uranium use that exists in the status quo

Sutherland 2

The potential energy residing in the

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cumulative production of energy from all sources up to the present time.

3rd is terrorism
Biello 09,  Heap Deadly for 250,000 Years or a Renewable Energy Source?, from The Scientific American.

A 98-foot-wide, two-mile-long ditch with steep walls 33 feet deep

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 of a new, proposed on-site dry cask storage area.

C is solvency:
The technology is here and ready to go, maintaining relevance in the modern day through international support
IAEA 08 “Spent Fuel Reprocessing Options”

After having developed the closed fuel

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Current capacities of spent fuel reprocessing status of reprocessing facilities and reprocessed fuel data are given in ANNEX I (Tables I-1, I-2 and I-3).

Additional advantages (Sutherland)
Recovers the 97 percent unused fuel and its

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safety and security considerations. Near-surface storage of some waste is possible.

Nuclear power necessary to overcome energy crisis of fossil fuel dependence causing climate change and triggering extinction and CP solves for harms of nuclear power: i.e. waste, mining, and energy inefficiencies, just look to the net benefits.
Emanuel 15:James Hansen, Kerry Emanuel, Ken Caldeira, Tom Wigley. Group of environmentalist writers from the Guardian. The Guardian. December 3, 2015. “Nuclear power paves the only viable path forward on climate change”. http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/dec/03/nuclear-power-paves-the-only-viable-path-forward-on-climate-change. 

 All four of us have dedicated our scientific careers to understand the processes and

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basing decisions on facts, and letting go of long-held biases when it comes to nuclear power

Tournament: Yale | Round: 2 | Opponent: na | Judge: na
Australia empirically verifies coal tradeoff.
Ben Heard 12 Masters of Corporate Environmental Sustainability Management, Monash University, 2007, environmental activist, Director of ThinkClimate Consulting, “That day in December: the story of nuclear prohibition in Australia”, Decarbonise SA, 12 Sep 2012, BE

Since the prohibition of nuclear power, while nuclear build

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 greenhouse emissions from electricity production 18 higher since 1998 (Australian Greenhouse Emissions Information System).
Coal causes huge harms and environmental racism—turns case.
GEP 15, “Environmental Racism in America: An Overview of the Environmental Justice Movement and the Role of Race in Environmental Policies”, The Goldman Environmental Press, 24 Jun 2015, BE

The problem of racial profiling in America relates to more 

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 people who are living within three miles of the coal-fired power plants we visited.”
Nuclear reactors are key to the environment
DAVID BIELLO 13 journalist covering environmental issues in the United States and internationally. In 2009 Biello won an Internews Earth Journalism Award for his series, A Guide to Carbon Capture and Storage, published in Scientific American, “How Nuclear Power Can Stop Global Warming”, Scientific American, 12 Dec 2013, BE

In addition to reducing the risk of nuclear war, U.S. reactors have also been staving off 

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which leaves current reactor technology as the only short-term nuclear option—and one that is infrequently employed at the global scale at present.

Fossil fuels increase CO2 emissions which are the strongest internal ink to warming
NWF 15:
National Wildlife Federation, 2015. “Global Warming is human caused”. National Wildlife Federation. https://www.nwf.org/Wildlife/Threats-to-Wildlife/Global-Warming/Global-Warming-is-Human-Caused.aspx. RW
Scientists have concluded that most of the observed
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is the biggest factor responsible for recent warming trends.

Tournament: Harvard | Round: 2 | Opponent: any | Judge: any
Academia is a pollution of the affirmative project—an inoculation and re-scripting of the very terms of contestation such that nothing is left but the continued propagation of social death
Occupied UC Berkeley ‘9 (“The Necrosocial – Civic Life, Social Death, and the University of California,” November 2009, Craccum Magazine – University of Auckland Student Magazine. Iss. 4, 2012. http:craccum.ausa.auckland.ac.nz/?p=286) m leap
Who knew that…built between us.
Analytic
Analytic
Limited interpretive paradigms only lead to reduction of literature as an object of consumption.
Deleuze and Guattari (2) 72
Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari discuss this in relation to literature in their book, Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia (1972. p132-4.) :
Oedipalization is one…means of escape.
The alternative is disengagement with normative academic and debate spaces as a starting point for our theorizations in engaging with fugitive politics. Only there can our agency, subjectivity and strategies be stolen back from the violent processes of the Academy. 
Analytic
Thus the role of the judge is promoting a debate space in which different perspectives, desires, and meaning-making interact. Students should be understood as infinitely changing and difference should be celebrated. We should focus on the transformative power of the imaginative envisioning of students as
Steeves 14:
Popular visions of…into the world.
Creating an objective way to understand language through the constitution is how the state asserts its power through the legal apparatus, creating such regimes of truth, destroying the revolutionary potential of critical discourse- under a “pragmatic” view of language, grammatical rules are no more than political assertions. Turns
Deleuze and Guattari (1) 87
Deleuze, Gilles, and Felix Guattari. Chapter 4 of "A Thousand Plateaus, translated by Brian Massumi." Minneapolis: University of Minnesota (1987).
Taking language as…them on speakers.

Tournament: Yale | Round: 2 | Opponent: na | Judge: na
Security discourse causes apocalypse in the name of survival
Peter Coviello, Asst Prof of English – Bowdoin, ‘1
(Queer Frontiers, ed. Boone, author’s italics)

Perhaps. But to claim that American culture is at present 

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demise, nuclear or otherwise, seems a civic initiative that can scarcely be done without.

Vote neg to critique the aff’s security discourse as a prior question
Graeme Cheeseman, Snr. Lecturer @ New South Wales, and Robert Bruce, ‘96
(Discourses of Danger and Dread Frontiers, p. 5-9)

This goal is pursued in ways which are still
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of broader intellectual debates, or resistant to them, or choose not to understand them, and why?