Richard Wilson, author of an American Physical Society report on reactor safety, reflects on the lessons of Chernobyl.
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Professor of Physics at Harvard University. The American Physical Society report on reactor safety was published in Reviews of Modern Physics earlier this year.
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Wilson, R. What really went wrong?. Nature 323, 29–30 (1986). https://doi.org/10.1038/323029b0
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