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    TURKISH MPS RAISING METSAMOR NUCLEAR POWER PLANT ISSUE

    Tert.am
    08.04.10

    Turley's pro-Kurdish Peace and Democracy Party demands that Turkish
    parliament launch an investigation into Armenia's nuclear power plant
    located in Metsamor, Armavir marz (province).

    According to Turkish news agency Firat the move was initiated by
    a group of deputies headed by Pervin Buldan, an MP from Igdir,
    Eastern Turkey.

    The proposal points to the fact that Metsamor Nuclear Power Plant,
    built in 1978 by Russians, is located in a seismic zone and is the
    last but one by its safeness in a list prepared by the International
    Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) that includes all 146 nuclear power
    plants worldwide.

    It also says that nuclear power plants must be located at least 90 km
    far from populated areas while the Metsamor Nuclear Power Plant is
    only 20 far from the Turkish Igdir and 50 km from Armenia's capital
    Yerevan, and that Turkey's eastern regions will also be affected
    should an explosion take place in the plant.
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