Personally, I would agree that it's your responsibility for your own land, but I also don't believe in forcing owners to do what I personally want them to do. If you can own a farm without polluting across the street, say,to my house, I really can't care what you do. If you want to sell the farm and throw up a bunch of houses, again, as not as you don't screw with my land and my ability to pass it on to future generations.

I do NOT agree that I an responsible for my neighbors or their land and this is part of the issue. If my farm dumps a bunch of crap or ejects a ton of pollutants into the air, this harms my neighbor and should be limited. If instead, I build my farm and is net 0 pollutants to your land, why exactly should you be able to do on 'my' land, or put another way, who is the victim?

To frame this another way that I think is fairly similar to nuclear, I think large scale organic farming is extremely taxing to the land in the long run and is a fairly terrible agricultural practice at our current scale. Does this mean we should enact laws and regulations to stop organic farming? I'm really not so sure, I can understand both sides and I don't think this type of legislation will ever be so cut and dry.

I suppose you don't have any right to put solar panels on your home, then, given that they're full of chemical waste that remains dangerous indefinitely.

Of course, this, I believe, the person I was responding to was somewhat implying and what I was hoping to hint upon in my comment. The discussion around nuclear, and really most politics, is around ownership and the limits to what you can do with what we call 'yours'. Just because I want to personally dump a bunch of waste, unprotected from my neighbors, doesn't mean I should be allowed to potentially pollute their land or contaminate their water. I find it far easier to have discussions like these when you remember that land 'ownership' (in the US anyway) is really a lease agreement to the government and your neighbors, our country may use the word ownership, but it really isn't in the most literal sense.