Chernobyl’s Atomic Wasteland May Be Reborn With Solar Energy
- Ukraine seeks to install $1.1 billion of solar panels on site
- Investors in U.S., Canada said to be interested in projects
The small city of Pripyat,, a few kilometers from the Chernobyl nuclear power plant and was built in the 1970s to house the plant's workers and their families.
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Ukraine’s looking toward the sun to put a radioactive wasteland back into business.
Thirty years after atomic fallout from the Chernobyl meltdown rendered an area the size of Luxembourg uninhabitable for centuries, Ukraine is seeking investors to develop solar power near the defunct Soviet reactors.