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22.812J | Spring 2004 | Graduate

# Managing Nuclear Technology

LEC # | TOPICS | SLIDES | NOTES
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1 | Introduction | (PDF) |

2 | Balance Sheets and Income Statements The Time Value of Money Discrete and Continuous Compounding | (PDF) | (PDF)

3 | Time Value of Money Mechanics (cont.) | (PDF) |

4 | The Effects of Inflation Calculation of Capital Costs | (PDF - 1.0 MB) | (PDF)

5 | Depreciation, Capital Recovery, and Taxes | (PDF) |

6 | Depreciation, Capital Recovery, and Taxes (II) | (PDF) |

7 | Levelized Cost of Product Carrying Charges |  | (PDF)

8 | Methods for Project Evaluation |  | (XLS)

9 | Methods for Project Evaluation (II): Nuclear Power Economics | (PDF) | (PDF)

10 | Quiz #1 |  |

11 | Retirement/Replacement Problems Cost of Capital | (PDF 1) (PDF 2) |

12 | Evaluating Projects under Uncertainty | (PDF) |

13 | Economics of the Nuclear Fuel Cycle (I): Material Balances and Simple Cost Models |  |

14 | Economics of the Nuclear Fuel Cycle (II): Enrichment Case Study | (PDF - 2.9 MB) | (PDF 1) (PDF 2)

15 | Reprocessing and MOX Recycle: Economics and other Considerations | (PDF) | (PDF)

16 | Nonproliferation, Safeguards, and Export Controls Guest Lecturer: Matthew Bunn, Harvard University | (PDF - 1.5 MB) | (PDF) (Courtesy of Matthew Bunn. Used with permission.)

17 | Proliferation-resistance and Nuclear Energy Guest Lecturer: Matthew Bunn, Harvard University | (PDF) |

18 | Quiz #2 |  |

19 | Externalities: Accounting and Regulation | (PDF) | (PDF)

20 | Nuclear Waste Management (I) | (PDF - 1.2 MB) |

21 | Nuclear Waste Management (II) |  |

22 | Risk Perceptions, Communication and Public Attitudes | (PDF - 1.7 MB) |

23 | Future of Nuclear Power | (PDF) |

24 | Term Project Presentations |  |

25 | Term Project Presentations |  |

## Course Info

##### Instructor

- Prof. Richard Lester

##### Departments

- Nuclear Science and Engineering
- Engineering Systems Division

##### As Taught In

Spring 2004

##### Level

Graduate

##### Topics

- Business
  - Management
- Energy
  - Electricity
  - Nuclear
- Engineering
  - Nuclear Engineering
    - Nuclear Systems, Policy, and Economics
- Social Science
  - Public Administration
    - Science and Technology Policy

##### Learning Resource Types

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assignment Problem Sets
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