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Armenia Rejects Russian Funding For Nuclear Plant Upgrade

Metsamor Nuclear Power Plant
Metsamor Nuclear Power Plant
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The Armenian government has announced it has decided to use only 60 percent of a $270 million Russian loan designed to finance the ongoing modernization of its Soviet-era nuclear power plant at Metsamor.

The plant’s sole functioning reactor went into service in 1980 and was due to be decommissioned by 2017.

However, a previous government in 2014 decided to extend the life of the 420-megawatt reactor by 10 years after failing to attract foreign investment for the construction of a new nuclear plant…

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