ARMENIAN NUCLEAR PLANT SUSPENDS WORK DUE TO MAINTENANCE
ArmInfo News Agency (in Russian)
Sept 8 2008
Armenia
Yerevan, 8 September: The operation of the Armenian Nuclear Power Plant
[NPP] has been suspended for 85 days at 0050 on 5 September [1950 gmt
4 September] due to a complete overhaul, the director-general of the
NPP, Gagik Markosyan, told our correspondent today.
Markosyan said that it was planned to unload nuclear fuel and inspect
the nuclear reactor’s core. The major overhaul of the nuclear reactor
is carried out once in four years. He added that it was also planned to
carry out a chemical washing of all the six steam generators, install
and put into operation a new leak detection system on the reactor,
repair diesel generators, which is carried out once in eight years,
as well as to carry out other maintenance work.