Status
A
Activity
SEM
Section number integer
660
Title (text only)
Energy, Waste and the Environment
Term
2025A
Subject area
ENVS
Section number only
660
Section ID
ENVS6840660
Course number integer
6840
Meeting times
W 5:15 PM-8:14 PM
Level
graduate
Instructors
Reto Giere
Description
The aim of this course is to provide an incentive to use geochemical and mineralogical principles to address and solve major environmental problems. The students identify the problems that are associated with different types of waste. This course covers a wide range of problems associated with the waste arising from the generation of electricity. The main topics will be the uranium cycle, characterization of nuclear waste, and the containment and disposal of nuclear waste. Based on insights from the nuclear fuel cycle, solutions are presented that diminish the environmental impacts of coal and biomass combustion products, incineration of municipal solid waste, toxic waste due to refuse incineration, and landfills and landfill gases.
Course number only
6840
Use local description
No