Talk:Armenian Nuclear Power Plant

Armenia Start‑class

	Armenian Nuclear Power Plant is within the scope of WikiProject Armenia, an attempt to improve and better organize information in articles related or pertaining to Armenia and Armenians. If you would like to contribute or collaborate, you could edit the article attached to this page or visit the project page for further information.ArmeniaWikipedia:WikiProject ArmeniaTemplate:WikiProject ArmeniaArmenian articles
Start	This article has been rated as Start-class on Wikipedia's content assessment scale.
???	This article has not yet received a rating on the project's importance scale.

Energy Start‑class Low‑importance

	Energy portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Energy, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Energy on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.EnergyWikipedia:WikiProject EnergyTemplate:WikiProject Energyenergy articles
Start	This article has been rated as Start-class on Wikipedia's content assessment scale.
Low	This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.

Soviet Union Start‑class Low‑importance

	Soviet Union portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Soviet Union, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.Soviet UnionWikipedia:WikiProject Soviet UnionTemplate:WikiProject Soviet UnionSoviet Union articles
Start	This article has been rated as Start-class on Wikipedia's content assessment scale.
Low	This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.

Comment

I'd suggest Metsamor,unless someone is strongly attached to the current title.

I think the two names are more or less interchangeable. Feel free to change the title. -- Augustgrahl 00:02, 21 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I'd go for Metsamor and a redir from here, either way it should be consisten with the article about the city Metsamor.

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the debate was PAGE MOVED, uncontroversially, some days ago. -GTBacchus^(talk) 02:56, 10 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move

Medzamor Nuclear Power Plant → Metsamor Nuclear Power Plant — (Relisting, originally proposed by 212.76.33.86). Eastern Armenian seams more appropriate since the plant is in the Republic of Armenia Patstuart^{(talk)(contribs)} 01:28, 1 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Survey

Add * '''Support''' or * '''Oppose''' on a new line followed by a brief explanation, then sign your opinion using ~~~~.

Discussion

Add any additional comments:

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

Metsamor NPP Issue following the Japan Quake

In light of what has happened at Fukushima recently and considering that the NPP at Metsamor is located within a seismically active region that has experienced devastating earthquakes in the recent past, the safety of this plant really needs to be evaluated closely. Besides, the operating standards at Metsamor are far inferior to those of the Fukushima plant and there are no plans at this point to close it down. Following the experience of Japan though, this will probably change taking note of the fact that the continued operation of this plant is unjustified. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.43.1.66 (talk) 05:37, 16 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

First of all thanks for your opinion, but what has it to do with Wikipedia? And the Metsamor Nuclear Plant provides almost 40% of Armenia's electricity. What alternative energy source you know? The plant has already been shut down once after Spitak earthquake and began working in 1995, as there was energy shortage.--Aram-van (talk) 19:58, 17 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Aram-van, Armenia no longer needs Metsamor, because in April 2010, a new 242 MW natural-gas fired thermal power plant was brought online in Yerevan, and by summer 2011 (in a few months) a similar-sized thermal power plant (the fifth block at Hrazdan TPP) will be brought online. Metsamor only generates about 310 MW of power on average yearly. These two power plants combined will produced 50% more: around 450 MW. There is little justification left to building a new nuclear power plant in Armenia. It is simply too expensive. The same power can be generated at less 20% the cost using natural-gas power plants, which are also safer, cheaper to operate, and pose no existential threat to the Armenian people. Serouj (talk) 20:28, 17 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

1982 fire incident

I just heard that there was a fire incident in 1982. All workers escaped, and the cooling circulation pumps was not working for several hours. Weird enough, it was very hard for me to find references through google (maybe it's easier if searching in Russian or Armenian language), only a footnote in http://cns.miis.edu/npr/pdfs/bukhar42.pdf plus some few lines in a report on http://www.nrpa.no/dav/acbf34257c.pdf (both documents taking this as examples that this reactor design can stay without active cooling for several hours without any radioactive releases).

I heard the downtime cited as 6 hours according to an employee working there during the incident, the two PDF files I found through google states 4 and 5 hours.

If someone would care doing more research into this, it's probably worth mentioning in the article.

tobixen (talk) 19:41, 19 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]