1. Nuclear Power and Economic Growth
Annalee Leggett

2. Nuclear Energy Development
Does the Development of Nuclear Energy Reactors have a direct correlation to positive economic development?
- Is the development of nuclear energy a cause or effect of economic growth?
Selection Question

3. Selection: Who goes nuclear?
Spectrum of selection data:
What is the average amount of nuclear energy produced by capable countries
Choose countries high, low and on average of scale

4. Quantify Nuclear Energy
Number of Nuclear Reactors
Energy Availability Factor
% nuclear energy to total energy production
Ex: Although the US produces lots of nuclear energy, it is a small amount in proportion to our total energy production

5. Reactors Under Construction, by country Credit: IAEA
No. Units
Total MW(e)
CHINA 16
15220
RUSSIAN FEDERATION 9
6894
KOREA, REPUBLIC OF 6
6520
INDIA
2910
JAPAN 2
2191
BULGARIA
1906
UKRAINE
1900
FINLAND 1
1600
FRANCE
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
1165
IRAN, ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF
915
SLOVAK REPUBLIC
810
ARGENTINA
692
PAKISTAN
300
Total: 53
47223
Credit: IAEA.

6. Credit: IAEA

7. Performance
Attempt to find correlations between nuclear reactor development and variables of economic growth
Methodology of analysis:
Graph for each case study number of nuclear reactors and economic development in late 20th-21st centuries
Pinpoint times of particular nuclear growth
Was the cause economic or otherwise?

8. Quantifying Level of Development
GDP:
purchasing power parody (better than nominal analysis)
Trade openness equation (imports + exports)/ GDP