Yerevan. (Interfax) – Armenian Nuclear Power Plant, which is managed by ZAO Inter RAO UES is to halt operations on June 15, 2004 for maintenance and for fuel to be loaded, plant General Director Garik Markosyan told Interfax.
He said that the work will take 65 days, during which major repairs will be carried out to the reactor after the fuel is loaded, and to two turbines in the second power-producing unit.
The general director said that this year the U.S. has already paid out $4 million to increase safety at the plant. As regards the European Union, the amount of financial aid will be agreed in Brussels this summer, he said.
Markosyan said the plant produced 1.1 billion kWh of electricity from the start of the year until May 30. The plant produced 1.9 billion kWh of electricity in 2003, which is 36% of total energy production in the republic.
Armenian Nuclear Power Plant was transferred to ZAO Inter RAO UES in September last year. Inter RAO UES is an electricity export and import operator on energy markets in Russia and abroad. The company is a subsidiary of UES of Russia (60% of shares) and Rosenergoatom (40%).
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