TURKISH MPS RAISING METSAMOR NUCLEAR POWER PLANT ISSUE
Tert.am
08.04.10
Turley’s pro-Kurdish Peace and Democracy Party demands that Turkish
parliament launch an investigation into Armenia’s nuclear power plant
located in Metsamor, Armavir marz (province).
According to Turkish news agency Firat the move was initiated by
a group of deputies headed by Pervin Buldan, an MP from Igdir,
Eastern Turkey.
The proposal points to the fact that Metsamor Nuclear Power Plant,
built in 1978 by Russians, is located in a seismic zone and is the
last but one by its safeness in a list prepared by the International
Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) that includes all 146 nuclear power
plants worldwide.
It also says that nuclear power plants must be located at least 90 km
far from populated areas while the Metsamor Nuclear Power Plant is
only 20 far from the Turkish Igdir and 50 km from Armenia’s capital
Yerevan, and that Turkey’s eastern regions will also be affected
should an explosion take place in the plant.