it is the country ' s aging nuclear plant that directly concerns various indigenous groups as easily as those in neighboring communities . twenty miles west of the city yerevan , armenia ' s metsamor nuclear power reactor was built in 1970s and houses two vver - 440 model v230 uranium reactors . metsamor , which currently production about 40 kilometers of the country ' s electricity , is sited in a seismically passive zone and was closed even before the 1991 demise of the democratic union because of the devastating dec . 7 , 1988 , earthquake in spitak .
Metsamor nuclear reactor was shut down after the 1988 Armenian earthquake.