In Armenia, announced a tender for the construction of nuclear power plants.

State Competition Commission of Armenia on 23 February announced a tender for the construction of a new block of the Armenian nuclear power plant. As the "Caucasian Knot" with reference to the Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources (MENR) of Armenia, the deadline for submitting applications for participation in the tender will expire on April 1.
The Ministry also noted that the tender for the acquisition of the rights of plants may attend any individuals and companies, regardless of nationality.
According to Press Secretary MENR Lusine Harutyunyan, the Government has already prepared a bill on strotelstve new block. However, the timing transmission of a document in Parliament has not yet been determined.
  It was expected that the total project cost will be about five billion dollars. According to plans, construction will begin in 2011 and will last 5-7 years. The new unit will be built on the territory of the existing station, it will have a capacity of 1000 MW.
It reminds the "Caucasian Knot, Metsamor (Armenian) plant consists of two blocks, which are put into operation in 1976 and 1980. After the earthquake of 1988 a special decree of the Government of the Soviet Union Station was stopped. 5 November 1995, after 6.5 years of conservation, the second block AAES was re-launched. AAES is currently producing 2000 MW of electricity per year.
The Government of Armenia in 2006, declared that the period of the Armenian nuclear power plant completed in 2016. Armenia signed the Action Plan within the framework of "European Neighborhood", undertook, as soon as possible to close outdated plants.
Its readiness to assist Armenia to replace Medzamor plant to a new already stated the U.S., France and Russia.