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# Managing Nuclear Technology

PSB: Park and Sharp-Bette. Advanced Engineering Economics. New York, NY: John Wiley and Sons (WIE), May 1990. ISBN: 9780471799894.

LEC # | TOPICS | READINGS
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1 | Introduction | Park and Sharp-Bette (PSB). Chapter 1, pp. 3-25. “Financial Ratio Analysis.” Levitt, Arthur. Take on the Street: What Wall Street and Corporate America Don’t Want You to Know. New York: Knopf, 2002. pp. 144-174. ISBN: 9780375421785.

2 | Balance Sheets and Income Statements The Time Value of Money Discrete and Continuous Compounding | PSB. pp. 38-70.

3 | Time Value of Money Mechanics (cont.) | PSB. pp. 70-83.

4 | The Effects of Inflation Calculation of Capital Costs | An Illustration of the Use of Depreciation (PDF) Sullivan, William, et al. “Depreciation and Income Taxes.” Chapter 6 in Engineering Economy. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1999. ISBN: 9780130115706.

5 | Depreciation, Capital Recovery, and Taxes |

6 | Depreciation, Capital Recovery, and Taxes (II) | PSB. pp. 201-237. 1989 Depreciation Guide. Commerce Clearing House, Inc. Paragraphs 12, 15, 16, and 45.

7 | Levelized Cost of Product Carrying Charges |

8 | Methods for Project Evaluation | PSB. pp. 243-264.

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

10 | Quiz #1 |

11 | Retirement/Replacement Problems Cost of Capital | PSB. pp. 654-682. Weston and Brigham. “The Cost of Capital.” Chapter 19 in Managerial Finance. Philadelphia, PA: Saunders College Publishing/Harcourt Brace, 1986. ISBN: 9780030640414 .

12 | Evaluating Projects under Uncertainty |

13 | Economics of the Nuclear Fuel Cycle (I): Material Balances and Simple Cost Models | “The Nuclear Fuel Cycle.” Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Nuclear Energy Agency. Chapter 3 from The Economics of the Nuclear Fuel Cycle, 1994. (PDF) Nuclear Engineering for an Uncertain Future

14 | Economics of the Nuclear Fuel Cycle (II): Enrichment Case Study |

15 | Reprocessing and MOX Recycle: Economics and other Considerations | The Economics Of Reprocessing Vs. Direct Disposal Of Spent Nuclear Fuel (PDF - 1.3 MB) (Courtesy of Matthew Bunn. Used with permission.)

16 | Nonproliferation, Safeguards, and Export Controls | See Related Resources - “Nonproliferation” Links

17 | Proliferation-resistance and Nuclear Energy | Civilian Nuclear Energy and Nuclear Weapons Programs: The Record (PDF) (Courtesy of Matthew Bunn. Used with permission.) See Related Resources - Links for “Nonproliferation and Energy” and “Nonproliferation Careers for Nuclear Engineers”

18 | Quiz #2 |

19 | Externalities: Accounting and Regulation | The Future of Nuclear Power . pp. 53-63, 157-164.

20 | Nuclear Waste Management (I) | Probability Neglect: Emotions, Worst Cases, and Law (PDF) (Courtesy of Cass R. Sunstein. Used with permission.)

21 | Nuclear Waste Management (II) |

22 | Risk Perceptions, Communication and Public Attitudes |

23 | Future of Nuclear Power |

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

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