ARMENIAN NPP RECONNECTED TO POWER SYSTEM AFTER RENOVATION

ARKA
Nov 18, 2008

YEREVAN, November 18. /ARKA/. The Armenian nuclear power plant (NPP)
has been reconnected to the country’s power supply system after a
capital renovation, Lusine Harutyunyan, the press-secretary of the
RA Minister of Energy and Natural Resources, told ARKA News Agency.

"The renovation works in Armenian NPP were finished 11 days earlier
and the NPP was connected to the country’s power supply system at
20:15 on November 17," said Harutyunyan.

In accordance with a plan, the Armenian NPP was stopped for a capital
renovation on September 5.

"In spite of early completion of the renovation, the works aimed
to increase the security of the plant are done properly," said
Harutyunyan.

Capital renovation is being carried out every four years. Some of
the works are nonstandard and are not carried out yearly, that is
why the plant was stopped for a long period.

The Armenian NPP is situated in the town of Metsamor and was brought
to operation in 1976. Currently, only the second unit is operating
with a designed capacity of 407.5 MW.

The plant has been operated by Inter RAO UES CJSC, owned by Rosatom
Russian state corporation since 2003 to 2013. The ANPP can be operated
until 2016.