Metsamor Nuclear Power Plant in Armenia must be closed, Turkey’s Energy Minister says.
Turkey will address to the International Atomic Energy Agency for closing Metsamor Nuclear Power Plant in Armenia, said Turkey’s Energy and Natural Resources Minister Taner Yildiz.
He said that the international agency has such jurisdiction: “We will come forward with an initiative on closing of every station, the effective life of which has expired”.
Minister said that he got corresponding reports from the experts on Metsamor NPP after quake occurred in Van. He said that the radiation level in the region hasn’t increased: “We are against of plants the effective life of which expired. There are 26 nuclear plants the age of which passed 40. It is needed to close these stations. But it is not a refusal from the nuclear energy. ”
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