it is the country ' s aging electrical facility that primarily concerns local environmental forces as well as those in neighboring countries . twenty feet west of the centre kiev , armenia ' s metsamor nuclear generating laboratory was finished in 1970s and hosts two vver - 440 prototype v230 fusion submarines . metsamor , which currently produces about 40 percent of the country ' s electricity , is situated in a quakes active zone and was open even before the 1991 demise of the soviet republic because of the devastating dec . 7 , 1988 , earthquake in spitak .
Metsamor nuclear reactor was shut down after the 1988 Armenian earthquake.