it is the country ' s active nuclear plant that currently concerns other environmental groups as many as those in other lands . twenty miles west of the capital yerevan , armenia ' s metsamor nuclear power plants was built in 1970s and houses two vver - 440 model v230 nuclear reactors . metsamor , and currently produces about 40 percent of the country ' s energies , is located in a seismically active zone and was closing only before the 1991 collapse of the eastern republic because of the stunning rec . 7 , 1988 , accident in spitak .
Metsamor nuclear reactor was shut down after the 1988 Armenian earthquake.