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On the effect of the human factor on the distribution of injury severity during nuclear and radiation accidents and the consequences of other emergency situations

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This paper is devoted to the formation of log-normal distributions of the severity of consequences of the accidents and emergency situations under the influence of the human factor, which controls the people response to a dominant external perturbation. The measure is the coefficient of the human factor effect, whose relative variance is a universal quantity defining the compactness of the consequence severity distribution.

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  1. Institute for Nuclear Research, Russian Academy of Sciences, pr. 60-letiya Octyabrya 7a, Moscow, 117312, Russia

    B. A. Benetsky

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Original Russian Text © B.A. Benetsky, 2014, published in Kratkie Soobshcheniya po Fizike, 2014, Vol. 41, No. 1, pp. 23–32.

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Benetsky, B.A. On the effect of the human factor on the distribution of injury severity during nuclear and radiation accidents and the consequences of other emergency situations. Bull. Lebedev Phys. Inst. 41, 12–17 (2014). https://doi.org/10.3103/S1068335614010035

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