11. Another grim scenario in White House briefing papers imagined a nuclear accident exposing people to cancer-causing levels of radiation. 12. Both men urged Congress to extend the Price-Anderson Act, which limits the legal liability of nuclear plant owners in case of nuclear accidents. 13. A nuclear accident at Chernobyl? 14. According to the Japan Self-Defense Agency, the government was informed that U.S. forces here are not equipped to deal with nuclear accidents. 15. After spending billions of dollars on the facility, Lilco could never obtain government approval of an evacuation plan for the area in case of a nuclear accident. 16. After the Three Mile Island nuclear accident, Harrisburg, Pa. decided to twin up with ... Hiroshima. 17. Alabama, Tennessee, and Arizona already have stocks of the drug as a precaution against nuclear accidents. 18. But coupled with aggressive evacuation plans, which should remain the primary response strategy to a nuclear accident, its use can be helpful. 19. But it was the nuclear accidents at Three Mile Island and Chernobyl that exposed the transparently thin reed of public support on which commercial nuclear technology had always rested. 20. But Maurer and the county officials who maintain the plan conceded that it was designed to handle a nuclear accident rather than a sudden and devastating terrorist attack. |