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ArmenPress (12 August 2026)

A lawmaker has reiterated that Armenia’s Metsamor Nuclear Power Plant is expected to remain operational until 2036, while the country is negotiating with several international partners over the construction of a new plant to replace it.

“The nuclear power plant has an operational lifespan. That period is determined neither by the Armenian government nor by the Azerbaijani government, nor by any government in the world, because it is the maximum permissible period of physical operation of the nuclear power plant. That period is 2036,” Civil Contract MP Arman Yeghoyan said at a press briefing when asked to comment on Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev’s recent statement that Armenia’s nuclear power plant will have to be shut down “sooner or later.”

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