TendersInfo
April 10, 2010 Saturday

Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources over Armenian Nuclear Power
Plant safety

Issues over the safety of the Nuclear Power Plant in Armenia are
always focused by the Atomic Energy Safety Council (AESC), an advisory
body to Armenia’s president, with the council having the world s best
specialists. The level-of-safety-increase activities are coordinated
with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).

According to the terms of the Convention on Nuclear Safety, Armenia
makes a Nuclear Safety National Report to the IAEA every three years.
As to the seismic security, international experts carried out seismic
observations of the Nuclear Power Plant board in 2009. The
observations showed there is no need to feel concerned. Besides, about
2,145 mln. Armenian people live around the Nuclear Plant territory,
while the figure of the Turkish people living around is 126 thousand
only, Armenian Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources told
Panorama.am commenting on the information spread by the Turkish media
over Turkish parliamentarians being concerned about Metsamor Nuclear
Energy Plant, only 20 km away from Igdir being in a seismically
dangerous zone and representing a threat to Turkey s eastern regions.

Turkish media also reported that the Armenian Nuclear Plant comes the
one but last in IAEA safety list among the world s 146 plants.

The information has nothing to do with the reality as this can be
found in none of the IAEA documents, the ministry responded.
IAEA 2009 issue of World Nuclear Power Reactors says there are 438
nucleat power reactors worldwide.