Resolved: The United States federal government should substantially increase alternative energy incentives in the United States through one or more of the following:

1. Renewable Portfolio Standards: Require a Renewable Portfolio Standard of at least 20% by the year 2020.
 

2. Nuclear Power: Increase incentives for Integral Fast Reactors.

3. Cap and Trade: Establish an upstream auctioned system of tradable carbon permits.

4. Biofuels: Increase incentives for domestic biofuels.

Novices can first run counterplans and kritiks starting at the Wildcat Invitationals on October 31^st and November 1^st

Looking for clarification

Alot of the evidence student brought back from institute is fairly specific.   What was the discussion on what is a "Integral Fast Reactor".

This Wikipedia site seems to lay out two categories.  What is allowed within the novice case limits?  The 2nd three and not the first three?  Or just one of the 6? Or maybe all 6?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_IV_reactor

thanks for the clarification

I'm not sure I have a specific answer, but here might be a better wiki cite. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integral_Fast_Reactor

Looks like IFR is cooled specifically by liquid sodium.  The evidence that exists according to wikipedia about safety problems (neg ev, I suppose), indicates that sodium's reactivity with water (and therefore, most air) is a problem.  Even the other liquid metal coolant under Gen IV has a different cooling process (using convection, which generally involves air), so the evidence on IFR wouldn't even apply to the other liquid metal coolants.  I imagine that most of the evidence on IFR makes some fine distinctions between the different Gen IV coolants (CP Ground, I'm sure).  So the Novice Case Limits is (should be?) about specifically sodium cooled reactors.

EDIT: There are two types of liquid sodium cooled reactors, by the way. IFR and the Fast Breeder Reactor, which is entirely different (it is designed to increase the fissile material from what is inputed).  So even within Sodium reactors, there are distinctions that would exist in the ev.  It seems that they're radically difficult enough--the Fast Breeder Reactor has two functions for it's liquid metal and the IFR seems to have one (I could be reading the schematic wrong).