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    RUSSIAN ATOMENERGOPROEKT CHOSEN AS PRINCIPAL CONTRACTOR FOR DESIGN OF NEW ARMENIA'S NUCLEAR POWER PLANT

    ARKA
    November 1, 2010
    YEREVAN

    YEREVAN, November 1, /ARKA/. Russian OAO Atomenergoproekt will be
    the principal contractor for design of a new nuclear power plant in
    Armenia, Russian RIA Novosti news agency reported.

    The new plant is supposed to operate at twice the capacity of the
    Soviet-constructed facility that currently generates some 40 percent
    of Armenia's electricity, but the Armenian government has yet to
    attract funding for the project that was estimated by a U.S.-funded
    feasibility study to cost at as much as $5 billion. To attract foreign
    investors Armenian parliament passed a law in 2006 to lift government
    monopoly on ownership of nuclear power facilities.

    The Russian news agency said Atomenergoproekt possesses large
    experience in building nuclear power units outside Russia. It is
    particularly, the general contractor of Busher nuclear power plant
    in Iran, Kudam-Kulam in India and Belen in Bulgaria.

    During Russian president Dmitry Medvedev's visit to Armenia in August
    the governments of Armenia and Russia signed an agreement on "technical
    and financial cooperation" for building a new unit at Armenia's aging
    nuclear power plant set to be decommissioned in several years.

    An Armenian-Russian closed joint-stock company was set up late last
    year with the aim of building the new reactor. It is expected to
    secure 40% of the necessary funds and the rest is supposed to come
    from private investors. Chief of Russian nuclear agency Rosatom,
    Sergey Kirienko, was quoted by Russian and Armenian newspapers as
    saying earlier this year that Russia could cover 20% of the cost of
    the new plant's construction.




    From: A. Papazian
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