Metsamor, Armenia News

Mediamax, Armenia May 17 2012 Head of OSART Mission doesn't comment on EU's opinion over Armenian Nuclear Power Plant Wednesday 16 May 2012 11:46 Yerevan,/Mediamax/. Head of the Operational Safety Review Team Mission of the International Atomic Energy Agency , Gabor Vamos, does not comment on the opinion of the European Union over the necessity of ... (more)

AZERBAIJAN CALLS IAEA TO STOP METSAMOR APS APA May 17 2012 Azerbaijan Baku. Nijat Mustafayev - APA-ECONOMICS. Today, Azerbaijani Deputy Minister of Industry and Energy Natig Abbasov has met with International Atomic Energy Agency's Internal Oversight Services Director Carsten Meyer, press service of the Ministry told APA.

EU CONTINUES TO REQUEST EARLIEST CLOSURE OF ARMENIAN NPP Trend May 16 2012 Azerbaijan The European Union continues to request the earliest possible closure of the Armenian NPP in Metsamor as "it cannot be upgraded to meet internationally recognised nuclear safety standards". The joint Document of the European Commission and EU High Representative ... (more)

'Metsamor atomic power station in Armenia was dangerous for whole region'. Azerbaijani Deputy Minister of Industry and Energy Natig Abbasov has met with International Atomic Energy Agency's Internal Oversight Services Director Carsten Meyer, press service of the Ministry told ... Read the full story at News.Az

PARLIAMENT TO INVESTIGATE ARMENIA'S CONTROVERSIAL NUCLEAR PLANT Today's Zaman May 14 2012 Turkey A group of deputies submitted a joint proposal to the Office of the Speaker of Parliament last Wednesday to establish a commission to investigate the risks to Turkey posed by Armenia's controversial Metsamor nuclear power plant.

The European Union continues to request the earliest possible closure of the Armenian NPP in Metsamor as "it cannot be upgraded to meet internationally recognised nuclear safety standards". The joint Document of the European Commission and EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy on implementation of the European Neighborhood ... (more)

GLOBAL NUCLEAR RETREAT? ARMENIA, OTHERS, AIM TO KEEP PLANTS ALIVE Josie Garthwaite http://hetq.am/eng/articles/14365/global-nuclear-retreat?-armenia-others-aim-to-keep-plants-alive.html 11:05, May 14, 2012 While Japan is now trying to run its economy without nuclear energy for the first time since 1970, the post-Fukushima world's continued ... (more)

Armenia is vowing to keep its one nuclear reactor running, despite international pressure to close the 32-year-old Soviet-designed plant, which sits in a broad seismic zone that stretches from Turkey to the Arabian Sea.

Operators check functions inside the control room of Armenia's Metsamor Nuclear Power Plant in this 2005 photograph.

Eurasia Review April 24 2012 Facing A New, Old Nuclear Threat: The Case Of Metsamor - OpEd Written by: Galib Mammadov April 24, 2012 Leaders from 51 countries gathered on March 27, 2012, for the Seoul Nuclear Security Summit.