ARMENIAN NPP TO BE COMPLETELY DECOMMISSIONED IN 2043

2007-12-04 15:42:00

ArmInfo. The Armenian NPP will be completely decommissioned in 2043,
that will take 238,75 mln Euro or $310,37 mln, the released strategy
of ANNP decommissioning, recently approved by RA government, says.

The document notes that the plant’s decommissioning will be carried
out state-by-stage, that will facilitate the financial load. It
is scheduled to shutdown the operating second power unit of ANPP
in 2016. Construction of the nuclear waste repository, that will
take 52,5 mln Euro, is the biggest project within the frames of
the adopted strategy. It is scheduled to build the repository at the
operating NPP site. Another large expenditure items include the plants’
decommissioning, that will take 36,6 mln Euro, as well as expenses
for processing, storage and burial of wastes.- 38,7 mln Euro.

The expenditure item does not include the costs for destruction
of NPP’s buildings and structures, drawing-up of the plant’s
decommissioning detailed plan and other engineering- technical
documentation, that will take 35 mln Euro. The whole work has been
divided into several stages.

The first preparatory stage of the ANPP decommissioning licensing
during 2008-2011 costs 5,7 mln Euro. The post-operational period covers
a period of 2016-2023 and costs 70 mln Euro. The non-radioactive
equipment disassembly stage will cover a period of 2023-2030 and
will cost 29 mln Euro. The last stage, disassembly of the equipment
not subject to decontamination, has been scheduled for 2037-2043,
that will cost 40 mln Euro.

As RA Energy Minister Armen Movsisyan told journalists, shutdown
of the presently operating NPP is considered in parallel with the
new NPP draft construction till 2016. To note, the Armenian NPP was
transferred to the financial control of "Iter RAO UES" CJSC, being
a subsidiary of RAO "UES of Russia", in September, 2003. Two power
units of Russian sample WWER-440 with total capacity of 815 MW have
been installed at ANPP. The first unit was commissioned in 1976,
the second one – in 1980. In the beginning, 1989, the plant was
removed from service for political reasons, and in the beginning,
1995, the NPP’s second unit with capacity of 404 MW was restarted.