[hindsightbias]

There should be a meme for not very serious articles about nuclear issues.

“We need fewer, clearer, and more sensible regulations.”

And not a single example of which regulations to drop. How about redlining the appropriate docs and posting those? If they’re all so bad it should be a trivial excercise.

[pyuser583]

One regulation mentioned is “ linear no-threshold standard (LNT) for measuring doses of radiation.”

That’s not a regulation per se, but likely the source of many unnecessary regulations.

[pfdietz]

LNT is a godsend for the nuclear industry.

The alternative is not "we don't know, so we'll assume the effect is zero"; it's "we don't know, so we'll assume the effect is the largest not ruled out by evidence." And that would make estimates of the effects of radiation in nuclear accidents far worse.