==  At the same time, lawmakers in the United States Congress began to worry that there was not adequate financial protection for the public in the event of an accident. == 

 This is simple BS. 

 for example: 
 I'm worried we don't have insurance to protect our family. 

 So we 
 #hide a little money under the bed, and  
 #create family indemnity which says that the family is responsible if anyone in the family gets hurt. 

 There that should do it. 

 What did we change? nothing. We had the money, we put it under the bed. By creating an indemnity plan we shifted the burden of a catastrophy from where to where? 

 from - the Treasury, which in any case covers disasters - even tidal waves in Tailand - To ... drum roll please 

 to ... 

 to ... 

 um 

 The Treasury?  Right! good! see. 

 Look up FEMA i think you'll see it covers emergency management - they have rebuild the same house in a flood plain umpteen times, FEMA would have to cover a nuclear accident, how is that differnt under Price. I suggest that by saying so, they get to define what the act actually does. 
  30 June 2005 23:06 (UTC)