PERSPECTIVES OF OPENING A NEW NPP DISCUSSED IN ARMENIA

ArmRadio.am
11.04.2007 15:21

"The plan of closing down the Armenian Nuclear Power Plant will be
presented to the consideration of the Government in summer of the
current year," RA Deputy Minister of Energy Areg Galstyan declared
in Yerevan today.

Delivering a lecture on the perspectives of development of the energy
sphere in Armenia at the American University of Armenia, he said the
ANPP will; be closed down in two stages.

The first phase that will last 10 years, envisages to create a nuclear
fuel store on the ANPP area. In the next 50-year phase the created
store will be put into commission.

The Deputy Minister said Armenia will close down the Nuclear Power
Plant only in case the republic is provided with an alternative energy
source by 2016.

Areg Galstyan also informed that the perspectives of constructing a
new Nuclear Power Plant in Armenia are under discussion.

The European Union insists on the necessity of closing down the ANPP
and has declared about its willingness to provide $100 million for
this purpose.