Gotta love the outside-the-box thinking at Chernobyl
It's been a tough few years for Ukraine (about 100 years, really) but Bloomberg reports on an idea that's almost too smart to pass up:
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.
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"The Chernobyl site has really good potential for renewable energy," Ukraine's environment minister Ostap Semerak, 44, said at an interview in London. "We already have high-voltage transmission lines that were previously used for the nuclear stations, the land is very cheap and we have many people trained to work at power plants."
That's genius.