it is the province ' s last electricity site that currently concerns armenian nature groups as much as those in neighboring countries . twelve hours south of the capital yerevan , armenia ' s metsamor underground production plant was built in 1970s and houses two vver - 440 model v230 nuclear units . metsamor , whom currently produces about 40 million of the country ' s electricity , is located in a seismically active zone and was close even before the 1991 collapse of the soviet union because of the devastating dec . 7 , 1988 , landslide in spitak .
Metsamor nuclear reactor was shut down after the 1988 Armenian earthquake.