"Solar, wind, water, and nuclear power complement and reinforce each other to form this green square to become a base of the world's future carbon-free balance", Likhachev Wholesale Indiana Pacers Jerseys , also Director General of Russian State Atomic Energy Corporation Rosatom, told Xinhua in a recent interview.


The energy poverty and global inequality in terms of access to electricity, as well as a threat of irreversible damage to the ecosystem at the global scale, posed two "strategic challenges" that were badly-needed to be addressed, he said.


"These two challenges can only be handled through growth and simultaneous change in the world's electricity generation balance", he said, reiterating Russia's willingness to share its affluent experiences in nuclear power sector with other countries.


At the IAEA Ministerial Conference held in St. Petersburg in 2013 Wholesale Los Angeles Clippers Jerseys , Russia stated that nuclear power was a proven and tested, clean, safe, and financially appealing technology for many countries.


Now Russia plans to "make another step forward and shift from the understanding of the public acceptance of nuclear power to making it demanded in the community", he added.


Likhachev expressed Russia's eagerness to support the efforts by IAEA on toughening requirements regarding nuclear safety with the country's competencies and resources.


"We must assure the public, governments, scientific and expert communities that nuclear power is clean Wholesale Los Angeles Lakers Jerseys , safe, and financially appealing", he said, adding that "Russia regularly makes efforts to raise the public acceptance of nuclear power in the countries where we build nuclear facilities".


The global nuclear industry can and must leverage on its inherent potential of technology leadership and become one of key participants of the 4th Industrial Revolution, according to Likhachev.


"If the entire power of operated Nuclear Power Plants (NPPs), which is 392 Gigawatts(GW), were supplied from coal and gas sources Wholesale Memphis Grizzlies Jerseys , additional annual air emissions would amount to about 2 billion tons of carbon dioxide", he said.


"Forests on earth annually absorb 2.5 billion tons of carbon dioxide, it means that roughly speaking, the