No matter what the public policy is, some percentage of people will leave. And that will shrink the local economies, and that will act as an incentive for even

No matter what the public policy is, some percentage of people will leave. And that will shrink the local economies, and that will act as an incentive for even more people to leave. To make things right for those who stay, the government would have to subsidize the local economies, and even that would be a fraction of what things were like before the disaster. The reality is a nuclear accident causes massive asset destruction, it touches people who had absolutely no say in the economic transaction, and probably no meaningful political say either. Pretty much the only fair solution, is equal unfairness. Part of the "not in my backyard" is because the track record is, local residents are disproportionately impacted, and there is no where near enough support for them, while people far away are minimally impacted. This is trust damaging, and incentivizes people to vote against nuclear power: not in my backyard = I do not trust you to make me whole in the unlikely event there is an accident.