Original sentence: As a means to spur private investment in nuclear power plants, Congress enacted the Atomic Energy Act, later ammended by the so-called Price-Anderson Act to subsidize the additional financial risk inherent in radioactive materials, in a manner not unlike the way the FDIC subsidizes the risk of bank insolvancy.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 a catastrophic nuclear accident.Most analysts and researchers, including the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service, concur that the Price-Anderson Act is essential for the construction of any past or future nuclear plants in the United States.The Price-Anderson Act seeks to resolve both problems by combining a common pool of insurance contributions by plant operators — which stood at about $9.5 billion as of 2004 &mdash, with limitations of liability and a cap on damage awards
Edited sentence: 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.But companies were not lining up to build nuclear plants, mostly because financial backers were unwilling to risk the enormous financial liability that would result from a catastrophic accident at a nuclear plant.Most analysts and researchers, including the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service, credit Price-Anderson with having paved the way for America's current nuclear plants to be built.Price-Anderson was born from those dual concerns; the act established a mechanism for compensating the public for injury or property damage in the event of a nuclear accident, and encouraged the development of nuclear power by indemnifying the industry from fault.The Atomic Energy Act, which was enacted several years before Price-Anderson, was intended to spur the development of America's private nuclear power industry