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1AC Waste Disposal 4 minute version .........................................................................................3ADV U.S. Nuclear power leadership ............................................................................................6ADV Global Warming ...................................................................................................................8ADV Brownouts/Blackouts ..........................................................................................................11ADV Dependency .........................................................................................................................12ADV Legal obligation ..................................................................................................................13ADV US-Australian relations .....................................................................................................14ADV US-Russian Relations .........................................................................................................15ADV Competitiveness ..................................................................................................................16Inherency ......................................................................................................................................18CA Dry Cask storage is safe ........................................................................................................19CA Companies want to build nuclear power plants .................................................................20AT CA Public opposes nuclear power ........................................................................................21AT CA Nuclear power is to expensive ........................................................................................22AT T – waste storage isn’t an incentive ......................................................................................23AT T – waste storage isn’t an incentive ext. Waste storage key to NP ....................................24AT DA Generic – nuclear power expanding now ......................................................................26AT DA Generic – Lots of incentives to do nuclear power now ................................................28AT DA Yucca mountain is unsafe ...............................................................................................29AT DA Nuclear plant meltdowns ................................................................................................30AT DA Nuclear waste is dangerous ............................................................................................32AT DA Reprocessing ....................................................................................................................33AT DA Economy ...........................................................................................................................34AT DA Spending ...........................................................................................................................35AT DA Politics – Nuclear power is unpopular ...........................................................................36AT DA Politics – Obama will do the plan (DA turns the case) .................................................37AT CP States .................................................................................................................................38AT CP Solar .................................................................................................................................39AT CP Wind ..................................................................................................................................40AT CP Natural Gas ......................................................................................................................41AT CP Hydroelectric ....................................................................................................................42AT CP Cap and Trade ..................................................................................................................43AT CP PIC out of Yucca Mountain ............................................................................................44
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AT K Discursive ...........................................................................................................................46SMART Act ..................................................................................................................................47GNEP ............................................................................................................................................49.......................................................................................................................................................49
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1AC Waste Disposal 4 minute version
InherencyDespite a host of incentives the nuclear industry needs one more – a place for wastedisposal.
Frank N. von
Hippel
, a nuclear physicist, professor of public and international affairs in Princeton University'sProgram on Science and Global Security, prior assistant director for national security in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, co-chair of the International Panel on Fissile Materials, April/May 20
08
, “Nuclear Fuel Recycling: More Trouble Than It's Worth”, http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=rethinking-nuclear-fuel-recycling&page=5, VP
Although a dozen years have elapsed since any new nuclear power reactor has come online in the U.S.,there are now stirrings of a nuclear renaissance. The incentives are certainly in place: the costs of natural gas and oil have skyrocketed; the public increasingly objects to the greenhouse gas emissionsfrom burning fossil fuels; and the federal government has offered up to $8 billion in subsidies andinsurance against delays in licensing (with new laws to streamline the process) and $18.5 billion in loanguarantees. What more could the moribund nuclear power industry possibly want? Just one thing: aplace to ship its used reactor fuel. Indeed, the lack of a disposal site remains a dark cloud hanging overthe entire enterprise. The projected opening of a federal waste storage repository in Yucca Mountain inNevada (now anticipated for 2017 at the earliest) has already slipped by two decades, and the coolingpools holding spent fuel at the nation’s nuclear power plants are running out of space.Plan: The United States Federal Government should pursue a dual track approach to nuclear wastestorage allowing interim dry cask storage and developing a permanent repository.
SolvencyThe plan would save the nuclear power industry.
Charles D.
Ferguson
, Council on Foreign Relations28, APRIL 20
07
“NUCLEAR ENERGY AT ACROSSROADS”(DS) – Lexis, dru
The waste storage problem in the United States is manageable. The United Statesshould pursue a dual-track approach: commit to developing a consensus and then openingup a permanent repository and in parallel store as much spent fuel as possible in dry casksthat are hardened against attack at existing reactor sites. The combination of interimstorage and commitment to a permanent repository would provide the assurances neededby the public and the investment community for continued use of nuclear power
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