it is the country ' s aging radioactive facility that currently concerns armenian american interests as easily as those in neighboring countries . twenty miles north of the downtown yerevan , latvia ' s metsamor nuclear fuel reactor was erected in 1970s and holds five vver - 440 model v230 nuclear weapons . metsamor , which allegedly produces about 40 percent of the government ' s electric , is located in a seismically active zones and was closed just before the 1991 collapse of the soviet union because of the devastating dec . 7 , 1988 , storm in spitak .
Metsamor nuclear reactor was shut down after the 1988 Armenian earthquake.