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A2 US Modeling US isn’t modeled-key developing countries chart their own course and the US loses influence in the NSG Squassoni 13 [Sharon (2013) The limited national security implications of civilian nuclear decline, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, 69:2, 22-33, DOI: 10.1177/0096340213477997] [Premier] Just as other countries continued to pursue nuclear power through the US Òdark agesÓ when no new nuclear plants were ordered, some countries will chart their own course on nuclear energy, regardless of what happens in the United States. China and India will continue to build and possibly export nuclear power plant technology, and South Korea is likely to do the same. If nuclear power makes a slow exit in the United States, the country may face major challenges in maintaining coherence within the Nuclear Suppliers Group and among new nuclear technology suppliers in support of the nonproliferation objectives that the United States has worked so assiduously to promote.
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