Armenian Nuclear Power Plant
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The Armenian Nuclear Power Plant, also known as the Metsamor Nuclear Power Plant, is the only nuclear power plant in the South Caucasus, located 36 kilometers west of Yerevan in Armenia.
Metsamor NPP aerial view 1 cropped
IAEA Director General Yukiya Amano visiting the control room in 2019
Cooling towers of Metsamor
An aerial view
1988 Armenian earthquake
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The 1988 Armenian earthquake, also known as the Spitak earthquake, occurred on 7 December at 11:41 local time with a surface-wave magnitude of 6.8 and a maximum MSK intensity of X. The shock occurred
Armenian Nuclear Power Plant
…complex consists of two units. The first unit was activated on 22 December 1976, and the second on 5 January 1980. Following public pressure after the Spitak Earthquake in 1988, the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union decided to shut down the existing two units. After the fall of the USSR, Armenia had a period of…
ShakeMap produced by the United States Geological Survey for the mainshock illustrating strong ground motion
The Holy Saviour's Church in Gyumri after the earthquake
A French search and rescue worker searches for buried people with the aid of a detection dog
Mikhail Gorbachev with Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush in New York on the day of the earthquake due to the Governors Island Summit