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Fukushima, Flawed Epistemology, and Black-Swan Events
Ethics, Policy and Environment 14 (3):267-272 (2011)
Abstract
In response to the Fukushima, Chernobyl, and Three Mile Island core melts, nuclear proponents allege they were “black-swan events”—extremely unlikely, at the tail of probability distributions. They...My notes
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