Minister urges construction companies to prepare for construction of new nuclear power plant in Armenia

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YEREVAN, 9 August. /ARKA/. Armenian Minister of Territorial Administration and Infrastructure Gnel Sanonyan called on construction companies to prepare for the construction of a new nuclear power plant in the country./pp

In addition to the ongoing construction projects, another giant project is awaiting us –construction of the Academic City. I would like to mention one more construction project and urge everyone to get ready - it is the construction of a new nuclear power plant. All our construction community should start preparing now, because it is as big a project as the others, he said in his address on the Builder's Day./pp

On 1 August, the Armenian government approved establishment of a government-owned company to handle the construction of a new nuclear power plant with the charter capital of AMD 200 million. The new plant is to be until 2040./pp

The operating Armenian nuclear power plant, the only one in the South Caucasus region, is located near the town of Metsamor, about 30 kilometers west of Yerevan. It accounts for about 40% of the country's electricity generation./pp

The government has already extended the facility's lifespan by ten years until 2026 after a major modernization and technical upgrade and began a new project to extend it by another 10 years until 2036./pp

Armenian authorities want to build a new nuclear power plant with a capacity of about 1000-1200 MW. Several options are being considered - either construction of a power unit with a capacity of about 1000 or 1200 MW, or two units of 1000 MW each./pp

Tentatively, the new NPP will be built on the territory adjacent to the existing NPP (about 80 hectares) and will allow using part of the existing infrastructure. -0-/pp -/pp nbsp;/p