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YEREVAN. – The dry spent fuel storage (DSFS) facility of the Armenia’s Metsamor Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) will be operated until 2020.

As the Armenian Government’s State Nuclear Safety Regulatory Committee informs, the government has granted a proper license for the operation of the fuel storage facility until 2020, “EcoLur” NGO reports.

The storage facility is classified as NUHOMS-56 located on the Armenian NPP site. NUHOMS-56 is placed into horizontal storage modules. The DSFS consists of eleven horizontally placed concrete modules for the storage of 616 spent fuel assemblies.

In 2005, and based on a proposal from the government, the National Assembly of Armenia passed a decision to extend the dry spent fuel storage. Now, it will enable to store 1,890 fuel assemblies for at least fifty years.

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