YEREVAN.- The experts from International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) will conduct recurrent inspections at the Armenian Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) within 18 months to check implementation of recommendations and proposals, said Gagik Markosyan, NPP’s director.

He hailed positive the current monitoring conducted by IAEA experts in terms of improving NPP’s safety.

The IAEA’s team, consisting of 11 experts from 8 countries, has monitored state of Armenian NPP’s equipment and working processes. The experts also interviewed the NPP’s staff. They gave recommendations on improvement of power plant’s work in six directions.

Head of the team Gabor Vamos noted the Armenian nuclear power plant operation period may be technically extended after 2016.