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ARMENIA DOES NOT SEE ITS FUTURE WITHOUT ATOMIC POWER PLANT:
ARMENIAN DEPUTY MINISTER OF ENERGY
YEREVAN, JUNE 23. ARMINFO. Armenia does not see its future without
atomic power plant, Armenian Deputy Minister of Energy Areg Galstyan
made this statement presenting the strategy of energy development for
2025 adopted by the Government today.
Galstyan says the country has a good infrastructure for development
of atomic energy today, however, training of specialists in the
sphere will take Armenia long years. In the meantime, there are good
specialists in Armenia who have created a perfect school. "Even the
Greens currently understand the ecological privileges of atomic
energy as compared with thermal one," the minister said. According to
optimistic forecasts, reserves of hydrocarbon raw-materials in the
world will be exhausted before 2070, according to pessimistic data -
by 2050. At the same time, a stable rise in prices for the given type
of fuel is observed, Galstyan says. In such situation, atomic energy
must undoubtedly develop in Armenia, he thinks. Earlier Armenian
Energy Minister Armen Movsisyan did not rule out a possibility of
construction of a new up-to-date APP in the country, which would
require $1 bln.
The first unit was put into exploitation in 1976, the second in 1980.
At the beginning of 1989, the plant was closed down for political
ideas, and then the second 404 megawatt power unit was reactivated.
The resource of the power unit is limited. The Armenian APP is under
financial management of the Inter RJSC UES of Russia for 5 years.
ARMENIAN DEPUTY MINISTER OF ENERGY
YEREVAN, JUNE 23. ARMINFO. Armenia does not see its future without
atomic power plant, Armenian Deputy Minister of Energy Areg Galstyan
made this statement presenting the strategy of energy development for
2025 adopted by the Government today.
Galstyan says the country has a good infrastructure for development
of atomic energy today, however, training of specialists in the
sphere will take Armenia long years. In the meantime, there are good
specialists in Armenia who have created a perfect school. "Even the
Greens currently understand the ecological privileges of atomic
energy as compared with thermal one," the minister said. According to
optimistic forecasts, reserves of hydrocarbon raw-materials in the
world will be exhausted before 2070, according to pessimistic data -
by 2050. At the same time, a stable rise in prices for the given type
of fuel is observed, Galstyan says. In such situation, atomic energy
must undoubtedly develop in Armenia, he thinks. Earlier Armenian
Energy Minister Armen Movsisyan did not rule out a possibility of
construction of a new up-to-date APP in the country, which would
require $1 bln.
The first unit was put into exploitation in 1976, the second in 1980.
At the beginning of 1989, the plant was closed down for political
ideas, and then the second 404 megawatt power unit was reactivated.
The resource of the power unit is limited. The Armenian APP is under
financial management of the Inter RJSC UES of Russia for 5 years.