The plaintiffs claimed that without this limitation on liability, reactors would not be built, and that this in turn would spare them immediate environmental injuries such as injury to fishing.

• 原告们声称，如果没有这样对责任的限制，原子反应堆也不会建立，而这又反过来赦免了反应堆对环境的直接危害，诸如对渔业的危害。