ARMENIAN NUCLEAR POWER PLANT TO EXPORT NUKE AGENTS TO RUSSIA
September 11, 2013 – 18:08 AMT
PanARMENIAN.Net – A draft resolution envisaging provision of a license
to Armenian Nuclear Power Plant CJSC for nuclear agents’ export to
Russia was included on the September 13 governmental sitting agenda.
Armenian Nuclear Power Plant has already singed a nuke agents’ export
deal with Russia’s TVEL Ltd.
Armenian Nuclear Power Plant, currently operative, was launched in
1976. The plant was shut down over political reasons in 1989, with
a 404-megawatt NPP unit relaunched in 1995.
Armenia is planning to build a new 1000-megawatt unit, with an
estimated implementation cost of $5 billion.
TVEL Ltd. is a Russian manufacturer of nuclear fuel, with 100% of
company’s stocks owned by Atomenergoprom OJSC; the company unites
Russian civil nuclear industry.