ARMENIAN NPP SUSPENDED FOR TOP-UP

PanARMENIAN.Net - Beginning on today the Armenian (Metsamor) Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) is suspended for a top-up. As Minister of Energy of Armenia Armen Movsisyan told journalists earlier, the process will take 45 days. It should be reminded that at the same time A. Movsisyan informed that the Russian party represented by the RAO UES of Russia has expressed readiness to leave the management of the financial flows of the Armenian NPP, though the contract allowing RAO UES of Russia manage the plant for 5 years has not expired yet. «We have not passed a decision over the matter yet and we are not going to hurry,» stated the Minister, noting the positive role of the Russian holding in the financial and technical rehabilitation of the Plant. Consisting of two energy blocks totaling 815 MW, The Armenian NPP was closed in 1988. The station second block with the capacity of 407.5 MW was again launched in work in 1995. Since 2003 the Armenian NPP is passed for financial management of the Inter RAO UES CJSC, which is a branch establishment of RAO UES of Russia.