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Nuclear Power and Economic Growth Annalee Leggett Nuclear Energy Development What causes increases or decreases in a country’s nuclear energy production? Does the Development of Nuclear Energy Reactors have a direct correlation to positive economic development? Selection: Who goes nuclear? Spectrum of selection data per case study: How much nuclear energy is produced How much total energy is produced Initial Data Analysis Nuclear energy produced: MW(e) Total primary energy produced: Quadrillion Btu GDP in PPP United States Russia China Pakistan Performance:  Proposal for further research Fill data holes Statistics class Regressions between total and nuclear energy production Compare more variables: Energy intensity, nuclear share of energy generation Pinpoint times of particular nuclear growth Was the cause economic, political, technological? * * Credit: IAEA Endogenaity between GDP and Nuclear Energy production Nuclear production plateau after fall of USSR nuclear energy line: stagnant with sudden increase due to construction of their two reactors * * *