EUROATOM ALLOCATED 200 MLN EUROS FOR CLOSING METSAMOR NPP

PanARMENIAN.Net
25.09.2007 16:37 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ The European Union’s stand on the Metsamor Nuclear
Power Plant is clear: it should be closed, European Commission’s
Acting Director for Eastern Europe, South Caucasus and Central Asia,
Mr Gunnar Wiegand told a news conference in Yerevan.

The Euroatom allocated 200 mln euros for closing the NPP, according
to him. "We have supported nuclear safety measures for the ANPP over
a number of years but now we call on the Armenian government to close
it. By the way, the matter concerns almost all nuclear power plants on
the territory of former USSR. Of course, alternative energy supplies
are needed.

Diversification of energy sources is already observed in Armenia,"
Mr Wiegand said adding that 200 mln euros will be assigned for closing
the outdated NPP but not for construction of a new one.