ESD.163
Managing Nuclear Technology
Spring 2004
Topics
- Introduction
- Balance Sheets and Income Statements
- Time Value of Money Mechanics (cont.)
- The Effects of Inflation
- Depreciation, Capital Recovery, and Taxes
- Depreciation, Capital Recovery, and Taxes (II)
- Levelized Cost of Product
- Methods for Project Evaluation
- Methods for Project Evaluation (II): Nuclear Power Economics
- Retirement/Replacement Problems
- Evaluating Projects under Uncertainty
- Economics of the Nuclear Fuel Cycle (I): Material Balances and Simple Cost Models
- Economics of the Nuclear Fuel Cycle (II): Enrichment Case Study
- Reprocessing and MOX Recycle: Economics and other Considerations
- Nonproliferation, Safeguards, and Export Controls
- Proliferation-resistance and Nuclear Energy
- Externalities: Accounting and Regulation
- Nuclear Waste Management (I)
- Nuclear Waste Management (II)
- Risk Perceptions, Communication and Public Attitudes
- Future of Nuclear Power
- Term Project Presentations
Readings
- Park, Chan S., and Gunther Sharp-Bette. Advanced Engineering Economics . New York, NY: Wiley, 1990. ISBN: 9780471799894.
- PSB: Park and Sharp-Bette. Advanced Engineering Economics . New York, NY: John Wiley and Sons (WIE), May 1990. ISBN: 9780471799894.
- LEC #: 1 · TOPICS: Introduction · READINGS: Park and Sharp-Bette (PSB). Chapter 1, pp. 3-25.
- 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.
- LEC #: 3 · TOPICS: Time Value of Money Mechanics (cont.) · READINGS: PSB. pp. 70-83.
- Sullivan, William, et al. “Depreciation and Income Taxes.” Chapter 6 in Engineering Economy . Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1999. ISBN: 9780130115706.
- LEC #: 6 · TOPICS: Depreciation, Capital Recovery, and Taxes (II) · READINGS: PSB. pp. 201-237.
- 1989 Depreciation Guide. Commerce Clearing House, Inc. Paragraphs 12, 15, 16, and 45.
- LEC #: 8 · TOPICS: Methods for Project Evaluation · READINGS: PSB. pp. 243-264.
- Weston and Brigham. “The Cost of Capital.” Chapter 19 in Managerial Finance . Philadelphia, PA: Saunders College Publishing/Harcourt Brace, 1986. ISBN: 9780030640414 .
- LEC #: 16 · TOPICS: Nonproliferation, Safeguards, and Export Controls · READINGS: See Related Resources - “Nonproliferation” Links
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗Historical OpenCourseWare
- MIT OCW calendar ↗
- MIT OCW syllabus ↗
- MIT OCW readings ↗
- Historical MIT OpenCourseWare offering. Named reading entries and schedule topics are automatically extracted from the linked source pages.