it is the district ' s inactive nuclear facility that presently impacts armenian conservative groups as well as those in neighboring states . twenty meters sw of the capital yerevan , armenian ' s metsamor nuclear energy plant was built in 1970s and houses two vver - 440 model v230 nuclear generators . metsamor , which now produces about 40 percent of the region ' s electricity , is locate in a earthquakes active zone and was reopened even before the 1991 collapsed of the ussr union because of the devastating dec . 7 , 1988 , quake in spitak .
Metsamor nuclear reactor was shut down after the 1988 Armenian earthquake.