| 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 | | |