  This paper describes the underlying philosophy, design, and implementation of
a course on "Nuclear Technology, Policy, and Society" taught in the Department
of Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences at the University of Michigan.
The course explores some of nuclear technology's most pressing challenges or
its 'wicked problems'. Through this course students explore the origins of
these problems be they social or technical and, they are offered tools, both
conceptual and methodological to make sense of these problems, and guided
through a semester-long exploration of how scientists engineers can work
towards their resolution, and to what degree these problems can be solved
through institutional transformation or a transformation in our own practices
and norms as a field. The underlying pedagogical philosophy, implementation,
and response to the course are described here for other instructors who might
wish to create a similar course, or for non-academic nuclear scientists and
engineers, who might perhaps, in these pages, find a vocabulary for
articulating and reflecting on the nature of these problems as encountered in
their praxis.
