Learning by accident? Reductions in the risk of unplanned outages in U.S. nuclear power plants after Three Mile Island

Journal of Risk and Uncertainty

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 175-198

  David, Paul A ^a   Maude Griffin, Roland ^a   Rothwell, Geoffrey ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Nuclear power plant; Nuclear reactor safety; Proportional hazards

Indexed keywords

EID: 21444433711     PISSN: 08955646     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00057867     Document Type: Article

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