January 23, 2003 - 18:30 AMT
ARMENIAN ATOMIC POWER PLANT RESUMED OPERATION
The Armenian Atomic Power Plant resumed operation at the expense of the reserve fuel. Armenian ministry of energy press service told "Arka" agency. The fuel reserves will allow the station to operate for two months, after which the station will be ceased for planned preventive works in April. As earlier reported by minister of energy of Armenia Armen Movsisian, simultaneously, i.e. at the turn of April, new nuclear fuel for the plant will be delivered from Russia to Armenia. "It will let the Armenian Atomic Power Station continuously operate for 300 days," - A.Movsisian said.