During an official visit by US Vice President JD Vance to the Caucasus nation, a project worth up to nine billion dollars was signed, which will develop and install small modular reactors manufactured in the United States.

In this regard, the Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman noted that this is not an investment by the Americans, but rather that Yerevan will have to bear the costs.

“These are technologies that only exist on paper.

The low-power nuclear reactors envisioned or offered by Washington not only do not exist in the United States, but they don’t exist at all; they only exist on paper,” the diplomat stated.

She also noted that the final cost of the project could be “considerably higher than estimated.”

Zakharova insisted that Armenia will be used, at its own expense, as a testing ground for US technologies that, in reality, simply haven’t been tested.

On February 9, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and US Vice President JD Vance signed an agreement to develop bilateral cooperation in the civilian nuclear sector.

The agreement stipulates that Washington will supply Yerevan with equipment worth up to five billion dollars.

Furthermore, it includes long-term contracts worth another four billion dollars for fuel supply and reactor maintenance, as Vance explained at a press conference.

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