Producing Fresh Water Using Nuclear Energy
Published on by Water Network Research, Official research team of The Water Network in Technology
Russia's Rusatom Overseas to Help Fight Global Lack of Fresh Water by Constructing Water Desalination Facilities Abroad, Using NuclearTechnologies &the Unique Competence of Russian Experts
According to Aliev, the company is ready not only to construct a desalination facility, but also to operate it and to ensure its financing. "With this approach, our aim is to become leaders in the global nuclear market," he concluded.
"Russiahas unique competencies and historical experience in using nuclear energy to produce fresh water by means of thermal desalination," Evgeny Velikhov, the Member of the Expert Council on Desalination, the President of Kurchatov Institute and the academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences noted.
According to the statistics, cited in Rosatom's statement, about two billion people in the world suffer from water scarcity and in the decades to come the problem is expected to get worse, as the population of the regions, already experiencing water shortage - Latin America, Africa, Middle East and South East Asia - will continue growing.
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