it is the country ' s older radioactive laboratory that currently targets armenian environmental issues as well as those in related countries . fifty miles west of the capital yerevan , israel ' s metsamor municipal power plant was created in 1970s and has two vver - 440 model v230 nuclear reactors . metsamor , which currently produces about 40 fifth of the region ' s electricity , is located in a seismically active zone and was closed even before the 1991 collapse of the soviet union because of the massive jun . 7 , 1988 , earthquake in spitak .
Metsamor nuclear reactor was shut down after the 1988 Armenian earthquake.