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Risk Management of Nuclear and Thermal Power Plants

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According to the definition of risk, it has two components one is the likelihood of occurrence of undesirable events and the other one is the consequences of these events.

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Verma, A.K., Ajit, S., Muruva, H.P. (2015). Risk Management of Nuclear and Thermal Power Plants. In: Risk Management of Non-Renewable Energy Systems. Springer Series in Reliability Engineering. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16062-7_7

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