Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
This course explored the technical and policy related issues surrounding new-build civil nuclear power capacity as part of a modern energy mix. A diverse range of technical and policy information was examined, revealing the complex interactions involved when considering nuclear energy as a power source.
5 weeks, 4 hours per week
Dave Hall
University Secretary
The Open University
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Evaluate the key policy, environmental and economic dimensions of building new civil nuclear power capacity.
- Explore the scientific and engineering dimensions of generating nuclear.
- Evaluate nuclear power’s contribution to the climate control debate and current EU policy.
- Explore the management of waste produced by operating nuclear reactors.
- Debate the role of nuclear power in a modern energy mix.
Syllabus
- The drivers for nuclear energy as a power option, the ‘Energy Policy Trilemma’.
- Nuclear fission, how a nuclear chain reaction is started and controlled.
- The features of a pressurised water reactor, the dominant design for nuclear power generation.
- Fuel cycles, from extraction to disposal, and the implications for proliferation and waste management.
- The nature of a nuclear safety culture and how past incidents inform present practice.
- The role of nuclear in a mixed mode power solution, and the achievement of governmental environmental policy.
- The business risks of developing new nuclear capacity and the necessary conditions in a liberalised energy market to promote new builds.
Issued on 8th March 2017
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