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Level 1 Low Power and Shutdown PSA

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There are two basic types of the plant outage: unplanned maintenance outages due to the repair of the components and planned refuelling outages.

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Kovacs, Z. (2014). Level 1 Low Power and Shutdown PSA. In: Probabilistic Safety Assessment of WWER440 Reactors. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-08548-7_4

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