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Amazon logo PSB: Park and Sharp-Bette. Advanced Engineering Economics. New York, NY: John Wiley and Sons (WIE), May 1990. ISBN: 9780471799894.

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1IntroductionPark and Sharp-Bette (PSB). Chapter 1, pp. 3-25.

"Financial Ratio Analysis."

Amazon logo 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.
2Balance Sheets and Income Statements

The Time Value of Money

Discrete and Continuous Compounding
PSB. pp. 38-70.
3Time Value of Money Mechanics (cont.)PSB. pp. 70-83.
4The Effects of Inflation

Calculation of Capital Costs
An Illustration of the Use of Depreciation (PDF)

Amazon logo Sullivan, William, et al. "Depreciation and Income Taxes." Chapter 6 in Engineering Economy. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1999. ISBN: 9780130115706.
5Depreciation, Capital Recovery, and Taxes
6Depreciation, Capital Recovery, and Taxes (II)PSB. pp. 201-237.

1989 Depreciation Guide. Commerce Clearing House, Inc. Paragraphs 12, 15, 16, and 45.
7Levelized Cost of Product

Carrying Charges
8Methods for Project EvaluationPSB. pp. 243-264.
9Methods for Project Evaluation (II): Nuclear Power Economics
10Quiz #1
11Retirement/Replacement Problems

Cost of Capital
PSB. pp. 654-682.

Amazon logo Weston and Brigham. "The Cost of Capital." Chapter 19 in Managerial Finance. Philadelphia, PA: Saunders College Publishing/Harcourt Brace, 1986. ISBN: 9780030640414 .
12Evaluating Projects under Uncertainty
13Economics of the Nuclear Fuel Cycle (I): Material Balances and Simple Cost Models"The Nuclear Fuel Cycle." Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Nuclear Energy Agency. Chapter 3 from The Economics of the Nuclear Fuel Cycle, 1994. (PDF)

Nuclear Engineering for an Uncertain Future
14Economics of the Nuclear Fuel Cycle (II): Enrichment Case Study
15Reprocessing and MOX Recycle: Economics and other ConsiderationsThe Economics Of Reprocessing Vs. Direct Disposal Of Spent Nuclear Fuel (PDF - 1.3 MB) (Courtesy of Matthew Bunn. Used with permission.)
16Nonproliferation, Safeguards, and Export ControlsSee Related Resources - "Nonproliferation" Links
17Proliferation-resistance and Nuclear EnergyCivilian Nuclear Energy and Nuclear Weapons Programs: The Record (PDF) (Courtesy of Matthew Bunn. Used with permission.)

See Related Resources - Links for "Nonproliferation and Energy" and "Nonproliferation Careers for Nuclear Engineers"
18Quiz #2
19Externalities: Accounting and RegulationThe Future of Nuclear Power . pp. 53-63, 157-164.
20Nuclear Waste Management (I)Probability Neglect: Emotions, Worst Cases, and Law (PDF) (Courtesy of Cass R. Sunstein. Used with permission.)
21Nuclear Waste Management (II)
22Risk Perceptions, Communication and Public Attitudes
23Future of Nuclear Power
24Term Project Presentations
25Term Project Presentations

 








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