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Nuclear power plants are vulnerable to accidental failures, due to the basic difficulty in controlling the nuclear fission reaction and regulating the temperature of the fuel rods, and the complicated and multipart structure. An accident, if sufficiently serious, inevitably leads to the release of a large amount of radioactive material. However, nuclear power plants and their associated operations (uranium mining, enrichment, recycling, etc.) release radioactive materials even under the normal, routine operation.
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Ochiai, E. (2014). Major Incidences of the Failure of Nuclear Facilities. In: Hiroshima to Fukushima. Science Policy Reports. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-38727-2_8
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