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
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?