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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. ███ ██████████ ████ ████████ ████ ███ ██████ ██████ ██ █████ ███ ███████ ██████████ █████████ █████████ ██ ███ ████ ██ ███████ █████████ ██ █████ ██████ ██ █████████ ██ ███ ████ ██ ███████ ███ ███████ ████████ ████ ███ ██████ ██ ███████████ ███ ████ ███ ██████████ ████ ████ █████████ █████████ █████ ████ █ ██████ ████ ██ ██████ ██████ ███ ██ █████████ ███████ ███ █████████ ███ ███ ██████████ ██████ ████ ███ ████ ██████ ██ ██ ██████████ ██████ ████ ██████ ████ █ ███████ █████████ ███ ████████ █████ ██████████ ██ ████ ████████
Summary
The author concludes that the public’s fear of nuclear accidents from the country’s nuclear power plants is well founded.
Why?
Because the government has limited the nuclear industry’s financial liability in the case of nuclear accidents. But the government admits that this limitation on liability is needed to protect the nuclear industry only if injury claims could be made against the industry, and they further admit that injury claims can be made against the injury only if injury actually occurs from a nuclear accident. (The point is the government took an action to limit liability, even though it claims that this action is needed only if there actually is a threat of injury.)
Notable Assumptions
The argument appears to be pretty convincing. One flaw we might notice is that the premises are based on what the government claims about its purpose in limiting the nuclear industry’s liability. In theory it’s possible that it implemented those limitations for reasons other than the need to protect the nuclear industry from the threat of bankruptcy, or that the government is simply wrong about whether the industry needs protection from threat of bankruptcy.
So to strengthen the argument we want to learn that what the government said about why it limited nuclear industry liability is actually correct — that the industry needs protection from threat of bankrupty.
Analysis by KevinLin
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a
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b
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c
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d
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e
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