Original sentence: Energy research and development (R&D) for nuclear power has and continues to receive much larger state subsidies than R&D for renewable energy or fossil fuels.Fossil fuels receive large indirect subsidies since they do not have to pay for their pollution and in various other ways.However, today most of this takes places in Japan and France, in most other nations renewable R&D get more money.Nuclear power also receives subsidies, for example they do not have to pay the full cost of insurance against accident.Renewables receive large direct production subsidies and tax breaks in many nations
Edited sentence: In an attempt to encourage the emplementation of expensive research which rational markets find uninsurable and uncompetative, the United States Department of Energy has offered interested parties the opportunity to introduce France's model for licensing, to subsidize 50% of the construction expenses, and to pay the cost of insurance by absolving investors of their responsability to maintain adequate liability insurance.Several applications were made but the project is still in its infancy.The Act is a wealth transfer from those without the resources to live far from nuclear power plant, railroads, fuel processing, or nuclear waste storage facilities to those with the will and capital to invest in uninsurable nuclear plants.The Price Anderson Act is the single highest cost of nuclear energy in the U.The dollar value of the transfer may be calculated as the discernable costs of purchasing insurance against even the lowest estimated monitary costs of a moderate nuclear accident such as Chernobyl (an economic impact estimated at 350 Billion USD).without which no plants could operate