Nuclear Technologies Education: Priming the Pipeline

Award #0401829

STEM Module: Nuclear Energy Presentations

Background

Over the course of this first year of this NSF project, CVCC has developed or collected a variety of presentations that cover a range of topics related to the nuclear power industry. A complete list of these presentations is provided below. These presentations are available for your use in the classroom or other setting.

Subjects: Technology, Science

Grade Levels: 6^th through 12^th

Educational Continuum:

Middle School

High School

Community College

University

· Summer Activities

· STEM Modules

· Faculty Development

· Career Exploration

· Dual Enrollment

· STEM Modules

· Faculty Development

· Work Based Learning

· Skill Assessment

· Career Exploration

· STEM Modules

· Faculty Development

· Work Based Learning

· Skill Assessment

· Certificate Programs

· AAS Degrees

· Industry Certifications

· Articulation

· BS degrees

· MS degrees

Description:

AREVA Speakers Bureau

Nuclear Energy Institute

· The role that nuclear energy plays in generating electricity

· Nuclear energy's role in protecting the environment.

· How nuclear power plants work and how they produce electricity.

· The next steps toward America's new nuclear power plants.

· Why nuclear power plants designed and built in the United States are safe.

· The extensive security measures that protect U.S. nuclear plants from sabotage.

· An emergency preparedness model for the U.S. nuclear energy industry.

· How low-level waste resulting from the many beneficial uses of nuclear energy— medical research, consumer products, manufacturing—is safely disposed of in the United States.

· The U.S. plan to build a centralized, national repository for used nuclear fuel and why used fuel can be safely transported and stored there.

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