Armenian NPP to be stopped for maintenance on September 5

YEREVAN, September 5. /ARKA/. Armenian Nuclear Power Plant will be
stopped for scheduled maintenance on September 5, 24:00 o’clock local
time, Director of Armenian NPP Gagik Markosyan told ARKA Agency Friday.

The maintenance works will take 46 days and will concern one of the
units and two turbines, which is a standard procedure, Markosyan said.

The country’s electricity system will not suffer from the maintenance:
consumers never feel changes during these repairs due to high energy
production capacities of the country, he said.

Currently the plant is operated in the normal mode and there are no
problems with fuel supplies, Markosyan said.

Armenian NPP is located in Metsamor town. It was commissioned in 1976.
Currently only the second power unit of the NPP with capacity of
407.5megawatt is in operation.

In September 2003, the financial flows of Armenian NPP were placed in
trust management of INTER RAO EES Closed Joint Stock Company owned by
`Rosatom’ Russian State Corporation (till 2013). According to experts,
Armenian NPP can be operated till 2016. N.V. `0′