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22.04J | Fall 2025 | Undergraduate

# Social Problems of Nuclear Energy

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Lecture 1: Introduction to 22.04 and the History of Nuclear Power
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128 MB
Lecture 2: Nuclear Technology 101
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144 MB
Lecture 3: How Should We Join Climate Change to Energy Policy?
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149 MB
Lecture 4: The Capital Cost of Nuclear Power
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Lecture 5: Can Nuclear Compete Given Decarbonization?
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Lecture 6: Nuclear Reactor Cost Around the World and the Potential for Cost Reduction
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Lecture 7: Can Renewables Decarbonize the Electricity Sector in the United States?
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Lecture 8: What Investors Need to Know About Small-Modular and Microreactors
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Lecture 9: How the Electric Grid Controls Progress on Decarbonization
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Lecture 10: Potential for Nuclear Process Heat
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Lecture 11: Theory of Externalities and How Nuclear Power Is Regulated by the NRC
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Lecture 12: Introduction to Radiation Risk
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Lecture 13: The Linear No-Threshold Theory
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Lecture 14: Is Nuclear Power Safe? Calculating the Number of Deaths Caused by Nuclear Accidents
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Lecture 15: Dealing with Nuclear Waste
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Lecture 16: Nuclear Proliferation and the Nuclear Fuel Cycle—Part 1
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Lecture 17: Nuclear Proliferation and the Nuclear Fuel Cycle — Part 2
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Lecture 18: Do We Need Nuclear Power to Fix Climate Change—a Review of the Course’s Findings
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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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