Chernobyl disaster zone could be turned into the world’s biggest solar power plant: VIDEOS
Chernobyl disaster zone could be turned into the world’s biggest solar power plant
The area could be perfect, since there’s nobody there, but it remains unclear whether it would actually be safe to build it
Andrew Griffin @_andrew_griffin Tuesday 2 August 2016
The abandoned city of Pripyat, near the site of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine Reuters
The site of the world’s most destructive nuclear meltdown could be resurrected as a power plant once again – but this time harvesting solar energy.
The exclusion zone that surrounds the site of the Chernobyl nuclear power station could be turned into the world’s biggest renewable power plant, according to Ukraine’s government.
When the plant had a meltdown in 1986 it led to the deaths of an estimated 100,000 people, and has caused continuing problems for the animals in the area.
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