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Only Russia and China build modular nuclear reactors: IAEA Deputy Director on prospects for Armenia (EXCLUSIVE)

International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Deputy Director General and Head of the IAEA Nuclear Energy Department Mikhail Chudakov in an interview with ARKA news agency spoke about the advantages of small modular reactors, in which Armenian authorities are showing interest.

04.04.2024, 10:43

Technology

Pashinyan says installing modular nuclear reactor in Armenia is ‘politically interesting’

Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan visited today the Nuclear Safety Regulatory Committee to discuss the agency's 2023 activity report.

16.01.2024, 15:03

Technology

Second power unit of Armenian NPP brought to halt for preventive repairs

The second power unit of the Armenian Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) was brought to a 73-day halt last Saturday for the scheduled annual preventive repair, the facility said in a Facebook post.

18.04.2022, 09:24

Technology

Armenian and Russian specialists complete installation of recovery annealing of metal of ANPP's reactor vessel

Employees of the Armenian nuclear power plant (ANPP) in Metsamor and the specialists from the Russian Novovoronezhatomenergoremont and TsNIITMASH companies have completed the assembly of the installation for the recovery annealing of the metal of the reactor vessel of the second power unit of the ANP.

25.12.2020, 15:14

Technology

Minister: Armenia not to give up the idea of building new nuclear power plant

The government is not going to give up the idea of building a new nuclear power plant, Armenian minister of energy infrastructures and natural resources Ashot Manukyan said today.

20.10.2017, 16:18

Technology

New generator and turbine to be installed at Armenian NPP

Areg Galstyan, Armenia’s Deputy Minister of Energy Infrastructures and Natural Resources, said today that a new, more powerful generator and a turbine will be installed on the second power unit of the Armenian nuclear power plant as part of a program to extend the service life of the facility for another 10 years.

12.10.2016, 17:51

Economy

Armenian Nuclear Power Plant’s reactor in a good state - no grounds for anxiety

The Armenian Nuclear Power Plant’s reactor is in a good state, and there are no grounds for anxiety, Ashot Martirosyan, the head of the State Nuclear Safety Regulatory Committee, said Thursday in the National Assembly.

26.02.2016, 11:15

Economy

Government approves ways to assess seismic risk of a site where it wants to build new reactor for Metsamor NPP

Today the Armenian government has approved a document in English, establishing the methods for assessing the seismic risk of a site where it is going to build a new reactor for the Metsamor nuclear power plant.

13.12.2012, 21:15