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Course Catalog 00/01


Civil and Mining Engineering

ABT027 Managing Senistive Projects 6.0 ECTS credits

TIMEPERIOD:
QIV

LANGUAGE:English

EXAMINER
Per-Arne Lindqvist Prof


PREREQUISITES
Basic

COURSE AIM
Knowledge and ability how to manage sensitive projects with nuclear waste management as large case study

CONTENTS
Managing sensitive projects.
Nuclear waste storage, long term safety and siting of a high level nuclear waste repository.
Introduction to knowledge and tools such as risk analysis, Environmental impact assesment, Risk perception and risk communication, Nuclear power and democracy, Influence of large projects on society and local society.
Project assignment with the task to describe and analyse managing strategies

TEACHING
Lectures
Seminars
Project assignment
If possible, visit to a nuclear power plant, interim storage of high level waste and underground research laboratory in Oskarhamn and Äspö

EXAMINATION
Participation in lectures, seminars and study visit and approved project report
COURSE GRADE SCALE: U, G

ITEMS/CREDITS
3.00ECTS
3.00ECTS

COURSE LITERATURE
Articles and reports

REMARKS


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