Editorial: The government claims that the country' s nuclear power plants are entirely safe and hence that the public' s fear of nuclear accidents at these plants is groundless  The government also contends that its recent action to limit the nuclear industry' s financial liability in the case of nuclear accidents at power plants is justified by the need to protect the nuclear industry from the threat of bankruptcy  But even the government says that unlimited liability poses such a threat only if injury claims can be sustained against the industry; and the government admits that for such claims to be sustained, injury must result from a nuclear accident
The public' s fear, ttherefore, is well founded
The government's position on nuclear power plants is inconsistent.