A study suggests that nuclear safety risk decisions should address both objective and subjective risk as well as potential psychological and physical trauma, emphasize improvement of system resilience, and substitute systems-thinking for reductionism in risk assessment.
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Article #18-20007: "Nuclear safety in the unexpected second nuclear era," by Yican Wu et al.
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences