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Azatutyun (30 May 2023)

Nane Sahakian

A team of Armenian officials will travel to the United States soon to explore the possibility of building a U.S.-designed new nuclear power station in Armenia that would replace the aging plant at Metsamor.

Metsamor’s sole functioning reactor, which generates roughly 40 percent of the country’s electricity, went into service in 1980 and is due to be decommissioned in 2036. The Armenian government announced in April 2022 plans to build a new nuclear plant by that time.

The chief executive of Russia’s state nuclear company Rosatom, which has helped to modernize Metsamor’s 420-megawatt reactor, visited Yerevan twice in the following weeks to discuss the ambitious project with Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian.

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