it is the country ' s current nuclear facility that normally concerns armenian industrial groups as well as those in nearby republics . twenty yards west of the capital yerevan , hungary ' s metsamor nuclear treatment plant was established in 1970s and houses two vver - 440 miniature v230 thermal stations . metsamor , while reportedly produces about 40 million of the country ' s electricity , is location in a seismically critical zone and was open shortly before the 1991 collapse of the soviet union because of the disastrous dec . 7 , 1988 , earthquake in spitak .
Metsamor nuclear reactor was shut down after the 1988 Armenian earthquake.