Governmental Indemnity: Hearings Before the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy, Congress of the United States, Eighty-fourth Congress, Second Session, on Governmental Indemnity for Private Licensees and AEC Contractors Against Reactor HazardsU.S. Government Printing Office, 1956 - 429 pages Considers proposed legislation to establish a Government indemnity or insurance program to supplement private insurance covering reactor hazards to the public. |
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