it is the country ' s aged nuclear facility that current concerns armenian ethnic group as often as those in neighbouring countries . fifteen miles west of the metropolitan yerevan , armenia ' s metsamor nuclear power plant was built in 1970s and features two vver - 440 models v230 nuclear reactors . metsamor , which currently uses about 40 thousand of the country ' s energies , is located in a seismically active region and was closed long before the 1991 collapse of the european union because of the devastating dec . 7 , 1988 , earthquake in spitak .
Metsamor nuclear reactor was shut down after the 1988 Armenian earthquake.