1 | Introduction | |
2 | Balance Sheets and Income Statements
The Time Value of Money
Discrete and Continuous Compounding | Problem set 1 due |
3 | Time Value of Money Mechanics (cont.) | Problem set 2 out |
4 | The Effects of Inflation
Calculation of Capital Costs | Problem set 3 out
Problem set 2 due |
5 | Depreciation, Capital Recovery, and Taxes | |
6 | Depreciation, Capital Recovery, and Taxes (II) | Problem set 3 due |
7 | Levelized Cost of Product
Carrying Charges | Problem set 4 out |
8 | Methods for Project Evaluation | Problem set 4 addendum out |
9 | Methods for Project Evaluation (II): Nuclear Power Economics | |
10 | Quiz #1 | Problem set 4 due |
11 | Retirement/Replacement Problems
Cost of Capital | Problem set 5 out |
12 | Evaluating Projects under Uncertainty | |
13 | Economics of the Nuclear Fuel Cycle (I): Material Balances and Simple Cost Models | Problem set 5 due |
14 | Economics of the Nuclear Fuel Cycle (II): Enrichment Case Study | Problem set 6 out |
15 | Reprocessing and MOX Recycle: Economics and other Considerations | Problem set 6 due |
16 | Nonproliferation, Safeguards, and Export Controls | |
17 | Proliferation-resistance and Nuclear Energy | |
18 | Quiz #2 | |
19 | Externalities: Accounting and Regulation | |
20 | Nuclear Waste Management (I) | |
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 | |