YEREVAN. – Armenia’s Metsamor Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) is issued a license to export nuclear materials.

To note, the aforesaid refers to the seven fresh nuclear fuel compilations which the NPP has at present, and which it had imported in 1979 and in 1987, but it was impossible to use them.   

Energy and Natural Resources Minister Armen Movsisyan said, during Friday’s Cabinet meeting, that they will export these nuclear materials at cheap rates: $5,000/kg.

These materials will be enriched at TVEL Company of Russia and brought to the required level for enrichment.