Interfax
Aug 2 2004

Armenian nuclear power station to close July 31 for repairs

Yerevan. (Interfax) – Unit two at the Armenian nuclear power plant
will be shut down at midnight local time for repairs and nuclear fuel
loading.

At 1:25 a.m., on Friday, one of two turbo generators was stopped and
the other will be stopped on July 31, the plant’s general director,
Garik Markosian, told Interfax.

Reactor repairs at unit two will take 65 days. Nuclear fuel will be
completely unloaded and the condition of the reactor’s metal body
will be checked. Skoda of the Czech Republic will carry out the work.

Management company Inter RAO UES has already delivered 100 nuclear
fuel cassettes to the plant for $12 million, Markosian said.

The power plant produced 1.66 billion kilowatt hours of electricity
from January 1 to July 29 2004. It sold 1.51 billion kilowatt hours.