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Editors' Note. During the editing of this article, various and at times conflicting opinions were expressed by members of the editorial board both about the article as a whole and about several ideas expressed in it — for example, on the use of the profit category, the creation of an insurance fund for nuclear plant accidents, etc. In view of this, the editors would be grateful for readers' responses to this article.
Translated from Atomnaya Énergiya, Vol. 68, No. 1, pp. 3–6, January, 1990.
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Minakov, A.A., Kirillov, E.V. & Kudryashov, L.N. Probabilistic economic approach to increasing nuclear plant safety. At Energy 68, 1–5 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02069714
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