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Nuclear miscalculation: Why regulators miss power plant threats from quakes and storms
By
Susan Q. Stranahan
September 13, 2011
Recent spate of ‘unlikely’ events - storms, hurricane and a quake - expose peril of relying on computer models in securing nuclear plants
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