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	1	+Metsamor key to Armenian energy sector
	2	+Eiu Digital Solutions, xx-xx-xxxx, "Heavy reliance on nuclear energy will continue," No Publication, http://country.eiu.com/article.aspx?articleid=2023425986andCountry=Armeniaandtopic=Politicsandsubtopic=Forecastandsubsubtopic=Political+stability
	3	+The Metsamor plant has since been a crucial component of the Armenian energy sector, although its share of overall electricity production has fallen from roughly 40 to around 30 in the past few years. Its production costs are much lower than those of the country's three thermal power plants, which accounted for more than 42 of domestic electricity production in 2014. Power generation at the largest and oldest of those plants, located in the central Armenian town of Hrazdan, is four times as expensive as at Metsamor.
	4	+Thermal power plants are causing a brink in energy tarrifs and demonstrations—nuclear power key to economy and poverty.
	5	+Eiu Digital Solutions, xx-xx-xxxx, "Heavy reliance on nuclear energy will continue," No Publication, http://country.eiu.com/article.aspx?articleid=2023425986andCountry=Armeniaandtopic=Politicsandsubtopic=Forecastandsubsubtopic=Political+stability
	6	+The cost of extending the plant's operations, although significant for Armenia, will be more than offset by cost savings in the domestic energy sector. Metsamor's longer than expected stoppage for regular refuelling and maintenance in 2014 (90 days, instead of the usual 40-45 days) caused Armenia's power distribution network, which is already facing significant financial problems, to incur additional losses. It forced the network to increase electricity supplies from the Hrazdan plant, which is much more expensive to operate. This was one of the official reasons for an increase of more than 17 in electricity prices that was announced by state regulators in June 2015. The unpopular measure triggered two-week non-stop demonstrations in Yerevan, forcing the government to announce that it would subsidise the price rise. Prices may well remain unchanged for households until Armenia's next parliamentary elections, due in May 2017. Energy tariffs had already risen significantly since 2009 owing to a combination of factors, including currency depreciation and widespread corruption and mismanagement in the energy sector. A recent report released by energy experts from the World Bank suggested that further tariff rises would be essential to ease the sector's grave financial troubles, and to recoup investments in a new thermal power plant that they believe must replace the Hrazdan facility by 2020. Nuclear energy should help the Armenian authorities to avoid drastic increases in energy prices, but concerns over the safety of the Metsamor facility will endure.
	7	+Nuclear energy key to Armenian sovereignty and independent energy stability—dependence on natural gas risks regional conflict.
	8	+Sevak Sarukhanyan, 2010, THE PROSPECTS OF NUCLEAR ENERGY IN ARMENIA
	9	+Regional situation. The energy crisis in Armenia after the collapse of the USSR came to prove that failure of the energy system might be caused not necessarily by the absence of the power generating capacities, but by the impossibility of the fuel imports. Natural gas, the second by significance input for energy after the nuclear fuel for Armenia, is imported to the country through the territory on unstable Georgia where the risks of new destabilization are very high, and from Iran, which may eventually become a new focal point of regional conflicts. The closed borders with Azerbaijan and Turkey .
	10	+Central Asian War leads to extinction Ahrari writes,
	11	+Ahrari 1 Professor of National Security and Strategy of the Joint and Combined Warfighting School at the Armed Forces Staff College (Dr. M. Ehsan, 8/1/01 www.strategicstudiesinstitute.army.mil/Pubs/display.cfm?pubID=112)
	12	+South and Central Asia constitute a part of the world where a well-designed American strategy might help avoid crises or catastrophe. The U.S. military would provide only one component of such a strategy, and a secondary one at that, but has an important role to play through engagement activities and regional confidence-building. Insecurity has led the states of the region to seek weapons of mass destruction, missiles, and conventional arms. It has also led them toward policies which undercut the security of their neighbors. If such activities continue, the result could be increased terrorism, humanitarian disasters, continued low-level conflict and potentially even major regional war or a thermonuclear exchange. A shift away from this pattern could allow the states of the region to become solid economic and political partners for the United States, thus representing a gain for all concerned.
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	14	+High energy prices create energy poverty for already poor households. Lomborg 14
	15	+Bjorn Lomborg. “How Green Policies hurt the poor”. The Spectator. April 5, 2014. http://www.spectator.co.uk/2014/04/let-them-eat-carbon-credits/
	16	+Britain’s environmentalists proudly announce that households have reduced their electricity consumption by almost 10 per cent since 2005.They seldom mention that this is helped by a 50 per cent increase in electricity prices, in part to pay for Britain increasing its share of renewables from 1.8 per cent to 4.6 per cent. Such a price increase of course hits the poorest hardest. As with many green taxes, it does so because it taxes a basic necessity that makes up a larger proportion of a small budget. Not surprisingly, higher energy prices mean the poor are forced to reduce their electricity consumption far more than the richest, who haven’t reduced their electricity consumption at all. Over the past five years, heating a home in the UK has become 63 per cent more expensive, while real wages have declined. Unsurprisingly, a greater number of poor households must spend more than 10 per cent of their income on energy, becoming what is known as energy poor.

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	1	+2016-09-13 23:52:41.242

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	1	+Lallas, Phillips, Ditzian

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	1	+Oakwood JW

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	1	+5

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	1	+Quarters

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	1	+Lynbrook Venkatesh Neg

Title

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	1	+DA- Armenian Energy Instability

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	1	+Loyola