ARMENIA CURRENTLY CONDUCTS THE STRESS-TEST IN THE METSAMOR NPP ON ITS OWN – WITHOUT SUPPORT FROM THE EUROPEAN PARTNERS

Mediamax
Aug 29 2011
Armenia

Yerevan/Mediamax/. Armenia is currently conducting the stress-test
in the Metsamor Nuclear Power Plant without support from the European
partners.

Chairman of the State Nuclear Safety Regulatory Committee Ashot
Martirosyan told Mediamax about this.

According to him, there is no progress in the negotiation process
aimed at getting the EU’s support in conducting the stress-test yet.

The Armenian side hopes that the issue of support on the part of
Armenia’s three main partners in the sphere, the EU, U.S. and IAEA,
will be resolved till the end of 2011.

According to Ashot Martirosyan, the stress-test being conducted in
the Metsamor NPP will be completed in mid-2012.

Earlier, Ashot Martirosyan said in his interview to Mediamax that
“unlike the majority of European nuclear power plants, our NPP has
more problems to be solved as it is a first-generation plant”.

“The EU decided to support Armenia, and leading European organizations
and companies will be involved in the conduct of the stress-test
to ensure proper level”, said Ashot Martirosyan in his interview
to Mediamax.

Mediamax recalls that on June 23, Armenia along with Croatia, Russia,
Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine and Belarus signed a declaration on
conducting stress-tests in NPP based on the tests worked out by the EU.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress