Week 5: What role should nuclear power play in an energy policy?

Day 13 & 14: Some basics and case histories close to home.

• What is radioactivity?
• How do we measure it and what are related safety concerns?
• How do nuclear reactors work?.
• Uranium mining near Crawford, Nebraska.
• LLRW disposal and Boyd Country, Nebraska.
• What happened at Hallam, Nebraska.

Day 15:

• What is high level radioactive waste?
• Who generates the wastes?
• Possible solutions?
• Yucca Mountain Nevada.

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