{"id":280718,"date":"2026-07-06T17:39:53","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T13:39:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=280718"},"modified":"2026-07-06T17:44:40","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T13:44:40","slug":"rosatom-proposes-construction-of-large-or-medium-capacity-nuclear-power-plant-in-armenia-likhachev-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/280718\/","title":{"rendered":"Rosatom proposes construction of large or medium-capacity nuclear power plant in Armenia, Likhachev says"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Rosatom has proposed building a large or medium-capacity nuclear power plant in Armenia to meet the country’s electricity needs for decades, Rosatom CEO Alexey Likhachev said, according to RIA Novosti<\/a>.<\/p>\n

According to him, around 30% of Armenia’s electricity is currently generated by nuclear power. Likhachev also did not rule out that Armenia could face an electricity deficit of up to one gigawatt in the coming decades.<\/p>\n

“We must be prepared for this. And our response is a large or medium-capacity plant — one or two units — which would cover the projected energy shortfall in the coming decades,” he said.<\/p>\n

Likhachev also expressed confidence that the presence of a nuclear industry is a sign of a high-quality economy and industrial base.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Rosatom has proposed building a large or medium-capacity nuclear power plant in Armenia to meet the country’s electricity needs for decades, Rosatom CEO Alexey Likhachev said, according to RIA Novosti. According to him, around 30% of Armenia’s electricity is currently generated by nuclear power. Likhachev also did not rule out that Armenia could face an […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":280715,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,35,43,98,47,101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-280718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","category-world","category-other-en","category-society","category-economy"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=280718"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":280720,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280718\/revisions\/280720"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/280715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}