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The Safety of Fission Reactors

By most standards they are quite safe. Three Mile Island nonetheless confirmed that decisions about their future call for greater reliance on quantitative methods of assessing risks presented by such systems

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Scientific American Magazine Vol 242 Issue 3This article was originally published with the title “The Safety of Fission Reactors” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 242 No. 3 (), p. 53
doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0380-53