. >> today, 6 million americans live witithin 10 m miles of f a nucuclear plalant and 1 120 miln live within 50 miles. but nobody can buy private insurance against damage to their property because of a radiation leak or other consequences of a nuclear accident. [majesestic musisic playining] the nucleaear industryry was bon the 1950s0s when ththe u.s. government was determined to promote the civilian use of nuclear energy. president dwight d. eisenhower had a dream: he called it "atoms for peace." >> so my country''s purpose is to help us move out of the dark chamber of horrors into the light,t, to find a way byby whih thehe minds of men,n, the hopes oof men, the soulsls of men everywherere can move forward toward peace a and happiness and well-bebeing. it is s not enough to take t ths weapon out of thehe hands of the soldiers. it must be p put into the hands o of those who will kw how to strip its military casing and adapt it t to the arts ofof peace. >> nuclear power was to benefit mankind, , but the free-mararket insusurance industry wasas unwig to cor r nuclear accicident risk bec