Article: Time to re-act: since Three Mile Island, nuclear power in the United States has imploded into a Dark Ages of development. Recent legislation and strong support from the Bush administration, however, have energized the industry, along with its insurers.(INSURANCE)

In 1979, when John Quattrocchi was a young insurance man, he was dispatched to the nuclear accident scene at Three Mile Island in Pennsylvania. The area was virtually deserted, except for some residents who didn't make it out or didn't want to. Among the former was a young family--a husband, a wife and two children--who appeared at breakfast one morning at the motel where Quattrocchi and his colleagues stayed. The wife was tearful, anguished over the safety of her family. A waitress tried to console her. "Please," she said, "there's no need to worry." She pointed across the dining room. "See them? They're with the insurance companies. They wouldn't be here if we were in ...

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