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October 18, 2007 Thursday 6:55 PM MSK

Feasibility study for new Armenian NPP to be ready by next summer

Armenia is planning to build a new nuclear power plant and put it
into operation by 2016-2017, Armenian Deputy Energy Minister Areg
Galstian told an international energy conference in Yerevan on
Thursday.

The conference was devoted to Armenia’s geothermal energy potential.

The technical and economic feasibility study for the new NPP will be
ready by mid-2008, and after that, technical requirements for the
plant’s construction will be developed, Galstian said.

A new 1,000-megawatt power generating unit will be built on the
territory of the existing NPP, which is to be shut down by 2016, he
said.