NEW STORAGE FOR PROCESSED FUEL FOR ANPP TO COST 10 MILLION EUROS

Pan Armenian News
18.05.2005 02:49

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ The construction of the new storage for the
processed fuel for the Armenian Nuclear Power Plant will cost 10
million Euros, Armenian Energy Minister Armen Movsesian stated
in parliament, RosBusinessConsulting reports. In his words, the
construction of the new storage has been planned taking into account
the exploitation term of the Armenian NPP till the end of 2016. The
Minister informed that annually 90 cassettes with the processed fuel
will go into the storage and by the end of 2016 there will be 1872
cassettes in total. The building process will be stepwise and the
storage is supposed to consist of 3 constructions. The first part of
the complex is to be finished in 2007, the second one – in 2012 and
the third one – in 2018. The exploitation term will make 50 years. To
note, the first ever storage intended for 616 cassettes of processed
nuclear fuel was put into operation in 2000. The expenses (about $6
million) were covered with the funds provided by the French government.