Officials believe that the probability of a major accident at a nuclear plant is so small that we should not expect a failure for hundreds of years. However, three such failures occurred within about 25 years— Fukushima, Chernobyl, and Three Mile Island. How could the estimates be wrong?

Officials believe that the probability of a major accident at a nuclear plant is so small that we should not expect a failure for hundreds of years. However, three such failures occurred within about 25 years— Fukushima, Chernobyl, and Three Mile Island. How could the estimates be wrong?

A First Course in Probability (10th Edition)

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Author:Sheldon Ross

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Chapter1: Combinatorial Analysis

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