Nuclear Power and Economic Growth Georgetown 核电与经济增长乔治敦.pptVIP

Nuclear Power and Economic Growth Annalee Leggett 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: 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 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 Reactors Under Construction, by countryCredit: IAEA 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? Quantifying Level of Development GDP: purchasing power parody (better than nominal analysis) Trade openness equation (imports + exports)/ GDP * * 47223 53 Total: 300 1 PAKISTAN 692 1 ARGENTINA 810 2 SLOVAK REPUBLIC 915 1 IRAN, ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF 1165 1 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 1600 1 FRANCE 1600 1 FINLAND 1900 2 UKRAINE 1906 2 BULGARIA 2191 2 JAPAN 2910 6 INDIA 6520 6 KOREA, REPUBLIC OF 6894 9 RUSSIAN FEDERATION 15220 16 CHINA Total MW(e) No. Units Country Credit: IAEA. Credit: IAEA Selection Question * * * Selection Question