ENERGY MINISTRY: FATE OF ARMENIAN NUCLEAR POWER PLANT WORKERS UNHAPPY ABOUT THEIR WAGES UNCLEAR SO FAR
/ARKA/
OCTOBER 24, 2011
YEREVAN
YEREVAN, October 24. /ARKA/. Negotiations between Armenian Nuclear
Power Plant workers unhappy about their wages and Energy Minister
Armen Movsisyan are under way now, and results will be reported later,
Lusine Harutyunyan, press secretary of the ministry, said on Monday.
“The matter was discussed today morning,” she said. “Certain proposals
were put forward, but no final decision was made.”
Some 158 workers and engineers unhappy about their salaries submitted
their resignations to the plant’s administration on September 20.
Reports in Armenian media in late September said the re-launch of
the plant was under threat after 158 workers submitted resignation
applications demanding an increase in their wages. The plant is
scheduled to resume operating on October 27 upon completion of a
regular repair.
The Armenian Nuclear Power Plant, the only nuclear power plant in
the South Caucasus, which accounts for about 40 percent of Armenia’s
electricity, is located in Metsamor, some 30 kilometers west of
Yerevan.
The plant was launched in 1997. Now only the second, 107.5-megawatt
unit of the plant operates. It generates about 50% of the country’s
electricity.
The plant’s financial flows have been managed since 2003 by Russian
Inter RAO UES, owned by Russian Rosatom.