{"id":87739,"date":"2011-04-20T17:00:23","date_gmt":"2011-04-20T12:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=87739"},"modified":"2011-04-20T17:01:04","modified_gmt":"2011-04-20T12:01:04","slug":"no-serious-threat-to-armenian-nuclear-facility-even-in-8-magnitude-earthquake-expert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2011\/04\/20\/no-serious-threat-to-armenian-nuclear-facility-even-in-8-magnitude-earthquake-expert.html","title":{"rendered":"No Serious Threat to Armenian Nuclear Facility Even in 8 Magnitude Earthquake: Expert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If Armenia were to experience an earthquake measuring 7 on the Richter scale, the Metsamor Nuclear Power Plant (MNPP) wouldn&#8217;t be damaged and would continue to work as per schedule, said Chair of the RA State Nuclear Safety Regulatory Committee Ashot Martirosyan, meeting with journalists in Yerevan today.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In the event of an earthquake with a magnitude of 8, all of the nuclear facility&#8217;s safety systems will be operational, they will ensure the reactor&#8217;s safe termination. In this case, from the safety angle, it&#8217;s likely that some unimportant structures will collapse and crack, but they won&#8217;t have an effect on the plant&#8217;s safety,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Martirosyan added that prior to reopening the plant in 1995, additional seismic studies were conducted on the areas adjacent to the MNPP, as a result of which the nuclear facility&#8217;s seismic stability was further strengthened.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;In the event of an earthquake with a magnitude of 8, all of the nuclear facility&#8217;s safety systems will be operational, they will&#8230;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":87659,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[10621,19415,10623,10622,19416,23645],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87739"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87739\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}