Lecture Notes

LEC #	TOPICS	SLIDES	NOTES
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

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