Original sentence: Due to the enormous financial liability that would result from a catastrophic accident at a nuclear plant, financial backers were unwilling to insure nuclear plants at a price which would leave them competative with coal and oil.It is noted that this precedes the Chernobyl accident in 1986, and occured at a time when oil prices were artificially inflated by mideast cartels.Many hold Price-Anderson responsible for having directed our energy policy toward nuclear and away from alternatives such as renewable energy.Often referred to as the Price-Anderson Act, it covers all nuclear facilities constructed in the United States before 2002.The purpose of the legislature, enacted in 1957 as an amendment to the Atomic Energy Act, was to spur the development of America's private nuclear power industry.There are few voices today who would argue that nuclear power is so important as to outweight Constitutional protections
Edited sentence: 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.Many credit Price-Anderson with having paved the way for America's current nuclear plants to be built.That Act, often referred to as the Price-Anderson Act was enacted in 1957 as an amendment to the Atomic Energy Act and covers all nuclear facilities constructed in the United States before 2002.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