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The main goal of nuclear safety is to keep the radiation exposure of the public and workers from nuclear facilities as low as reasonably achievable both during normal operational states and in the event of an accident.
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Vinod, G. (2020). Probabilistic Safety Assessment in Nuclear and Non-nuclear Facilities: In a Glimpse. In: Karanki, D., Vinod, G., Ajit, S. (eds) Advances in RAMS Engineering. Springer Series in Reliability Engineering. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-36518-9_15
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