Turkish media, citing the announcement of country’s Energy Minister ,Taner Yildiz, reports that according to him, Metsamor Nuclear Power Plant in Armenia poses ”a great threat” to the whole region.
Yildiz said the Metsamor NPP has been already functioning for more than forty years and it is “unreliable” now.
Turkish news agency adds that “Armenia plans to build more powerful nuclear power plant than a plant in Metsamor. The project is expected to cost $ 1 billion. Operation life of Metsamor NPP expired in 2010, but Armenia and the IAEA experts have agreed to continue the operation of the plant until 2016”.