Fukushima, Flawed Epistemology, and Black-Swan Events

Ethics, Policy and Environment 14 (3):267-272 (2011)
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In response to the Fukushima, Chernobyl, and Three Mile Island core melts, nuclear proponents allege they were “black-swan events”—extremely unlikely, at the tail of probability distributions. They...

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10.1080/21550085.2011.605851

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