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 Wiki needs a whole article dedicated to Price Anderson. 
 Google covers it pretty well, and it can be read in its original forms and well as in the proposed wording of buses ""Energy Bill"" which proposes nuclear as safe and clean. 

 I thought describing Chernobyl as moderate was a touch of restraint - i'll leave it to the ""Proponents"" to elaborate on the superlative qualities of the chernobyl incident. 

 In my opinion - since this is the place for same - is that the cause of Chernobyl has as much or more to do with the attitude of reckless indiffernce combined with the volatility of the technology. While some new tech may be more stable - until we change the tendency of all but the most highly developed nations to excersize the persistent caution neccessary to safely engage in the use of fissile materials - nuclear activities are contrary to peaceful purposes. 

 Price Anderson ""limits"" the liabiity in the case of a nuclear incident to some predefined and ridiculously inadequate number. In personal terms it would be like the government saying if you speed, while high on crank, and drive a school bus into a train, killing thousands of schoolgirls you can only be liable for the cost of a broken taillight. - and because you have a history of crank and speeding - your cost of insurance to drive a schoolbus is in the millions - but with this provision, it is reduced to the cost of a bus ticket - that is a wealth transfer. You are the payee, and all the other people who are paying full fare for their insurance - including uninsured, health, final expenses, life insurance, and unemployment insurance necessary to cover the costs of such an accident are the payors. 

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