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Nov 08, 2025
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PUB 313 - Nuclear Power, Weapons and Waste Disposal
Description
The history of development of nuclear technology, beginning with the atomic bomb efforts during WW II. The course will deal first with the technology itself, as well as with the ways in which it was embedded in and drove both American and international politics including the arms race and the Cold War. We will focus next on the postwar development of civilian nuclear power reactors, the creation of the Atomic Energy Commission, and the passage of legislation allowing insurance for the fledgling nuclear industry. We will follow the civilian nuclear power industry through the first generation of serious accidents, including Fermi (1966), Browns Ferry (1975), Three Mile Island (1979) and, most catastrophic, Chernobyl (1986). Finally, we will turn our attention to nuclear waste disposal and the decommissioning of reactors. Not open to first-year students. Same as ENE/STS 313 . Counts as elective for Environmental Studies.
Credits: 1
Course Attribute(s):
SOCS Gen Ed: Social Science Req
NSIP Gen Ed: Natural Sci in Persp
Jnt Major: Public Policy
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