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0 pointspfdietz2y ago0 comments

> The crux of the Fukushima costing is whether damage actually occurred to property.

The legal requirement would be if it caused land values to decline. It doesn't matter if that decline was for a reason you'd call irrational. It wouldn't even require proof of responsibility beyond a reasonable doubt; "preponderance of evidence" would be enough in the US system.

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spacebanana72y ago

It’s fair to debate whether the nuclear activities caused the land value to decline or whether the government policy caused the land value to decline.

A government could impose irrational exclusion zones for arbitrary events, it’s unfair to impose the cost on the event itself unless the exclusion zone policy was justified.

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spacebanana72y ago

It’s fair to debate whether the nuclear activities caused the land value to decline or whether the government policy caused the land value to decline.

A government could impose irrational exclusion zones for arbitrary events, it’s unfair to impose the cost on the event itself unless the exclusion zone policy was justified.

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