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    TendersInfo
    April 10, 2010 Saturday

    Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources over Armenian Nuclear Power
    Plant safety


    Issues over the safety of the Nuclear Power Plant in Armenia are
    always focused by the Atomic Energy Safety Council (AESC), an advisory
    body to Armenia's president, with the council having the world s best
    specialists. The level-of-safety-increase activities are coordinated
    with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).


    According to the terms of the Convention on Nuclear Safety, Armenia
    makes a Nuclear Safety National Report to the IAEA every three years.
    As to the seismic security, international experts carried out seismic
    observations of the Nuclear Power Plant board in 2009. The
    observations showed there is no need to feel concerned. Besides, about
    2,145 mln. Armenian people live around the Nuclear Plant territory,
    while the figure of the Turkish people living around is 126 thousand
    only, Armenian Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources told
    Panorama.am commenting on the information spread by the Turkish media
    over Turkish parliamentarians being concerned about Metsamor Nuclear
    Energy Plant, only 20 km away from Igdir being in a seismically
    dangerous zone and representing a threat to Turkey s eastern regions.

    Turkish media also reported that the Armenian Nuclear Plant comes the
    one but last in IAEA safety list among the world s 146 plants.

    The information has nothing to do with the reality as this can be
    found in none of the IAEA documents, the ministry responded.
    IAEA 2009 issue of World Nuclear Power Reactors says there are 438
    nucleat power reactors worldwide.
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