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Sept 21 2012
Armenian Nuclear Power Plant Being Renovated
By Messenger Staff
Friday, September 21
On September 15th Armenia's one operational nuclear power plant at
Metsamor temporarily closed. The Armenian government denies that the
nuclear power plant closed because of a terrorist threat, instead
insisting that the closure is a regular safety procedure that occurs
every four years. The plant will be closed until December 2012.
Metsamor supplies more than 40% of electricity for Armenia. At the
beginning of this year the Armenian Ministry of Energy and Natural
Resources took over operations at Metsamor from Russian energy company
Inter RAO. Metsamor is one of the few nuclear power plants in the
world built without primary containment structures and that combined
with its location in a region of powerful seismic activity have led
the governments of neighboring Azerbaijan, Turkey and Georgia to
express concern of over its continual operation. Metsamor is of the
same generation of Soviet-made nuclear power plants as Chernobyl,
where the world's worst nuclear disaster occurred in 1986.
Sept 21 2012
Armenian Nuclear Power Plant Being Renovated
By Messenger Staff
Friday, September 21
On September 15th Armenia's one operational nuclear power plant at
Metsamor temporarily closed. The Armenian government denies that the
nuclear power plant closed because of a terrorist threat, instead
insisting that the closure is a regular safety procedure that occurs
every four years. The plant will be closed until December 2012.
Metsamor supplies more than 40% of electricity for Armenia. At the
beginning of this year the Armenian Ministry of Energy and Natural
Resources took over operations at Metsamor from Russian energy company
Inter RAO. Metsamor is one of the few nuclear power plants in the
world built without primary containment structures and that combined
with its location in a region of powerful seismic activity have led
the governments of neighboring Azerbaijan, Turkey and Georgia to
express concern of over its continual operation. Metsamor is of the
same generation of Soviet-made nuclear power plants as Chernobyl,
where the world's worst nuclear disaster occurred in 1986.