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The most devastating earthquakes in the history of the USSR David Turnley/Corbis/Getty Images The 1988 Spitak earthquake in Armenia exploded with the force of ten Hiroshimas. In the space of 30 seconds, the city was literally wiped off the face of the Earth. Destruction of Ashgabat Stanislav Korytnikov/Sputnik On Oct. 6, 1948, at about 1am, the capital of the Turkmen Soviet Socialist Republic (SSR), Ashgabat, was shaken by powerful tremors measuring 7–10 on the Richter scale. The fragile, one-story earthen houses that comprised most of the city’s architecture...

12 Mar in 8:00 Caspian News The two-reactor Metsamor nuclear power plant, a one-of-a-kind facility in the South Caucasus, is thought to be the most dangerous Armenia’s Metsamor nuclear power plant poses a real threat to people in neighboring Turkey, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Iran, Russia, and southern Europe, according to Brenda Shaffer, an international energy and foreign policy specialist and a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Global Energy Center. In an article published last week in the US’s The Bulletin magazine, Shaffer made her case for why Armenia’s outdated nuclear plant...

Armenia’s nuclear power plant is dangerous. Time to close it. Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists , By Brenda Shaffer | March 5, 2021  In late 2020, the Armenian government announced that its Metsamor nuclear power plant would close for five months in 2021 to attempt significant upgrades. Soon after, the EU urged Armenia to make the closure permanent…

Armenia's Metsamor nuclear power plant cooling towers. Credit: Adam Jones via Wikimedia Commons. CC BY-SA 2.0. In late 2020, the Armenian government announced that its Metsamor nuclear power plant would close for five months in 2021 to attempt significant upgrades. Soon after, the EU urged Armenia to make the closure permanent since the plant “cannot be updated to fully meet internationally accepted safety standards.” A major nuclear or radiation accident at Metsamor would not only affect the people of Armenia, but citizens in neighboring Turkey, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Iran, Russia, and sou...

Load more 2021-01-22 15:45:00 Armenian Minister, Russian Ambassador Tour Metsamor Nuclear Plant Armenian Minister of Territorial Adinistration and Infrastructure Suren Papikyan and Russian Ambassador to Armenia Sergey Kopirkin today visited the Metsamor Nuclear Power Plant in Armenia to monitor modernization work at the plant’s Unit 2 being implemented by the Russian Rusatom Service company, a subsidiary of the Rosatom Group. The Metsamor Plant consists of two units. The first was activated in 1976, the second in 1980. Both were shut down following the 1988 Spitak Earthquake. Unit 2 was res...