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Changing Price-Anderson; who'll pay for a U.S. Chernobyl? (nuclear accident liability limits) (includes related article on Atomic Energy Commission)
From:
The Nation
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June 14, 1986| Author:
Levin, S.K.
| COPYRIGHT 1986 The Nation Company L.P. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information
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CHANGING PRICE-ANDERSON
Who'll Pay for A U.S. Chernobyl?
If an accident at any of the nation's nuclear bomb factories or nuclear power plants released significant amounts of radioactivity, people whose health was damaged or property destroyed would receive little compensation. And the nuclear industry is lobbying to keep things that way.
The public's right to recover damages was curtailed in 1957 by the little-known Price-Anderson Act, which pla...
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