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22.04J | Fall 2025 | Undergraduate

# Social Problems of Nuclear Energy

##### Lecture 1: Introduction to 22.04 and the History of Nuclear Power

##### Lecture 2: Nuclear Technology 101

##### Lecture 3: How Should We Join Climate Change to Energy Policy?

##### Lecture 4: The Capital Cost of Nuclear Power

##### Lecture 5: Can Nuclear Compete Given Decarbonization?

##### Lecture 6: Nuclear Reactor Cost Around the World and the Potential for Cost Reduction

##### Lecture 7: Can Renewables Decarbonize the Electricity Sector in the United States?

##### Lecture 8: What Investors Need to Know About Small-Modular and Microreactors

##### Lecture 9: How the Electric Grid Controls Progress on Decarbonization

##### Lecture 10: Potential for Nuclear Process Heat

##### Lecture 11: Theory of Externalities and How Nuclear Power Is Regulated by the NRC

##### Lecture 12: Introduction to Radiation Risk

##### Lecture 13: The Linear No-Threshold Theory

##### Lecture 14: Is Nuclear Power Safe? Calculating the Number of Deaths Caused by Nuclear Accidents

##### Lecture 15: Dealing with Nuclear Waste

##### Lecture 16: Nuclear Proliferation and the Nuclear Fuel Cycle—Part 1

##### Lecture 17: Nuclear Proliferation and the Nuclear Fuel Cycle — Part 2

##### Lecture 18: Do We Need Nuclear Power to Fix Climate Change—a Review of the Course’s Findings

##### Lecture 19: Why the Public Is Skeptical About Nuclear Power—a Way Forward

## Course Info

### Instructor

- Prof. R. Scott Kemp

### Departments

- Nuclear Science and Engineering
- Science, Technology, and Society

### As Taught In

Fall 2025

### Level

Undergraduate

### Topics

- Energy
  - Nuclear Energy
- Engineering
  - Nuclear Engineering

### Learning Resource Types

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