Re-equipment of Armenian Nuclear Power Plant to be launched in 2018
YEREVAN, December 15. /ARKA/. Re-equipment of the Armenian Nuclear Power Plant will be launched in 2018, Aretem Petrosyan, chief of the Armenian energy infrastructures and natural resources ministry’s atomic energy division, said on Friday.
He said that 690 units of equipment have been examined this year as part of the program of extension of the plant’s life.
Petrosyan said that the first turbo generator, water heater, cooling pumps and other equipment has already brought to Armenia to replace old ones.
The remaining equipment necessary for the plant’s modernization will be brought later this year.
The project of extension of the plant’s life is being implemented thanks to a $270-million loan and a $30-million grant provided by Russia.
Armenian Nuclear Power Plant sits near Metsamor (30 kilometers west of Yerevan).
Only the second unit of the plant is operating now. It generates 30 to 35% of the country’s annual power output.
In March 2014, the Armenian government decided to extend the plant’s life till 2026 because of delay in construction of a new nuclear unit.
The extension of the plant’s life will be paid from a $270-million Russian export loan and a $30-million grant.
The modernization of the operating unit will enhance the plant’s security a great deal. -0---
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14:18 12/15/2017