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ARMENIAN NUCLEAR PLANT'S OPERATION TO BE EXTENDED FOR 10 YEARS
Vestnik Kavkaza
Nov 6 2012
Russia
Armenia's Energy and Natural Resources Ministry is preparing a draft
Government decision, whereby the operation of the second energy block
of the Metsamor Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) will be extended for ten
years, Energy and Natural Resources Deputy Minister Ara Simonyan said
on Tuesday at the National Assembly, News.am reports.
In his words, the stress tests and the International Atomic Energy
Agency (IAEA) studies enabled such decision to be reached. "If we had
the smallest doubt in connection with the reactor's metal, we would
not have raised this matter," Simonyan noted.
He recalled that the time limit for the operation of the NPP's second
energy block is 2016 and, ever since the restart of the plant's
operations in 1995-and after a five year intermission- approximately
$110 million has been spent on raising its safety level.
Vestnik Kavkaza
Nov 6 2012
Russia
Armenia's Energy and Natural Resources Ministry is preparing a draft
Government decision, whereby the operation of the second energy block
of the Metsamor Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) will be extended for ten
years, Energy and Natural Resources Deputy Minister Ara Simonyan said
on Tuesday at the National Assembly, News.am reports.
In his words, the stress tests and the International Atomic Energy
Agency (IAEA) studies enabled such decision to be reached. "If we had
the smallest doubt in connection with the reactor's metal, we would
not have raised this matter," Simonyan noted.
He recalled that the time limit for the operation of the NPP's second
energy block is 2016 and, ever since the restart of the plant's
operations in 1995-and after a five year intermission- approximately
$110 million has been spent on raising its safety level.