The studies were never intended to be realistic assessments of accident consequences.

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The studies did not, and were never intended to, reflect reality or serve as a basis for emergency planning the SNL studies provided a useful measure to compare sites, not to analyze plant-specific accident consequences.

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Safe Haven want to know what the consequences of an accident on the LNG waterway could be for the town of Milford Haven and the surrounding communities.

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The consequences of an accident would be far worse.

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Even under this worst case, though, the direct health consequences of the nuclear accident would be very small compared with the thousands already killed by the earthquake and tsunami, let alone the continued suffering of the survivors.

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Meanwhile, with so many ships trawling the crowded waters of the Gulf, there is always the risk of an "accident" or "collision" with unintended consequences.

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This kept congressional attention on the consequences of deficit spending, whether those deficits were planned or the result of historical accident.

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It may be no accident that so many of the great scientists really have followed Galileo, in ducking and avoiding the consequences of what they discovered.

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