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22.78[J] Nuclear Energy and the Environment: Waste, Effluents, and Accidents
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(Same subject as 1.878[J])
(Subject meets with 1.098[J], 22.078[J])
Prereq: Permission of instructor
Units: 3-0-9
Subject Cancelled
Introduces the essential knowledge for understanding nuclear waste management. Includes material flow sheets for nuclear fuel cycle, waste characteristics, sources of radioactive wastes, compositions, radioactivity and heat generation, chemical processing technologies, geochemistry, waste disposal technologies, environmental regulations and the safety assessment of waste disposal. Covers different types of wastes: uranium mining waste, low-level radioactive waste, high-level radioactive waste and fusion waste. Provides the quantitative methods to compare the environmental impact of different nuclear and other energy-associated waste. Students taking graduate version complete additional assignments.
H. Wainwright
STS.901-STS.904 Independent Study in Science, Technology, and Society
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Prereq: Permission of instructor
Units arranged
STS.904: TBA.
For students who wish to pursue special studies or projects at an advanced level with a faculty member of the Program in Science, Technology, and Society.
D. Fitzgerald
STS.901: No required or recommended textbooks
STS.902: No required or recommended textbooks
STS.903: No required or recommended textbooks
STS.904: No required or recommended textbooksTotal units: 12+
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