Minister: Armenia not considering new nuclear plant in the near futureDecember 10, 2019 - 13:20 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Minister of Territorial Administration and Infrastructures Suren Papikyan told reporters on Tuesday, December 10 that Armenia is not considering a new nuclear power plant for the near future. “Currently Russia, Korea, the United States have projects of small capacity nuclear plants but they haven't been launched yet," the Minister said. "I do not exclude that at some point after their launch Armenia may consider such an issue but the [current] power unit can operate at least until 2026 and up to 2036.” Asked whether Armenia is nurturing the idea to exploit the energy unit until 2036, Papikyan said he doesn't want to run ahead but such an option was possible. In February, Rosatom delivered a turbo-generator to the Armenian nuclear power plant in Metsamor. That was the second turbine generator supplied to the NPP in the town of Metsamor as part of the project to extend the service life of the plant. Top stories The Cabinet of Ministers decided on Thursday, November 9 to allocated AMD 120 million to arrange the gathering. Michael Roth believes sanctions must be put on the table after Baku‘s ethnic cleansing in Nagorno-Karabakh. The Yerevan City Council has elected Tigran Avniyan from the ruling Civil Contract as the mayor of the Armenian capital. The Armenian Parliament on Tuesday, October 3 voted to ratify the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court. Partner news | Russia clarifying reports on Baku’s alleged arms supply to Ukraine Russia says is carefully working to verify reports about alleged arms supplies from Azerbaijan to Ukraine Russia warns Armenia against “falling into West’s trap” Zakharova maintained, however, that anything that will benefit the people of Armenia can only be welcomed. CSTO: Armenia has not participated in secretariat’s work recently Recently Armenia has not participated in the work of the secretariat of the CSTO, Imangali Tasmagambetov said. Ucom launches network modernization efforts in few regions of Armenia In particular, on March 28, the legacy Mobile Switching Subsystem will be replaced with a new one. |