The world has been facing serious challenges in the areas of health and energy and so on, the IAEA chief said while addressing the conference, noting that nuclear energy can find solutions to many of these challenges.
He also referred to 4 million annual cases of cancer diagnosed across the world, as well as flashfloods, which is a result of global warming, and added that in a recent UN Climate Change conference (COP), there was a stress for zeroing carbon emissions.
He believed that the Isfahan Conference could help solve these problems.
IRNA