it is the country ' s aging steel project that currently troubles various indigenous groups as often as those in neighboring countries . fifty miles west of the capital yerevan , turkey ' s metsamor nuclear power plant was built in 1970s and features two vver - 440 model v230 neutron reactors . metsamor , which currently produced about 40 percent of the country ' s radiation , is found in a seismically safe sector and was abandoned even before the 1991 fall of the soviet federation because of the catastrophic dec . 7 , 1988 , earthquake in spitak .
Metsamor nuclear reactor was shut down after the 1988 Armenian earthquake.