Rafael Arutiunian, First Deputy Director of Nuclear Safety Institute

– It is time to pass to the next level of nuclear development

It is very good that nuclear energy is actively present in the key tasks to modernize our economy. Today, we need a new technological platform. As you may know, the whole world is trying to pass to a new technological platform in the field of nuclear power engineering. All countries have such programs. Nuclear energy will develop despite the crisis. In fact, this crisis has nothing to do with our efforts to develop nuclear energy. It was before the crisis that we realized that we need energy sources for the sake of security, sustainable development and ecological safety.

It is time for us to pass to the next level of nuclear development. The available resources are limited and insufficient and it is hard to ensure stable energy balance. Nuclear energy has answers to all of these questions: it is a way-out of all of our problems.