Determined the fate of Chernobyl

Inside the exclusion zone created around the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, a solar power plant will be built, which will produce one megawatt of electricity. It will be located only 100 meters from the sarcophagus, built over the destroyed nuclear reactor. At present, the construction of the complex is at the final stage. This is reported by the publication Science Alert.

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Inside the exclusion zone created around the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, a solar power plant will be built, which will produce one megawatt of electricity. It will be located only 100 meters from the sarcophagus, built over the destroyed nuclear reactor. At present, the construction of the complex is at the final stage. This is reported by the publication Science Alert.

According to Evgeny Varyagin, the head of the project "Sunny Chernobyl", the plant is able to provide electricity to a medium-sized village, consisting of approximately two thousand houses. However, in the future the power plant will be able to produce a hundred times more electricity.

The plant will be built on an area of ​​1.6 hectares, which will be occupied by 3.8 thousand solar batteries. Photocells will be fixed on concrete slabs, and not buried in the ground, since excavations in the exclusion zone are prohibited due to the risk of spreading radioactive dust.

In 2016 it was reported that Ukraine is actively searching for investors for the construction of solar power plants in the area of ​​the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. So, it is planned to install solar batteries with a total capacity of one gigawatt (for comparison - in Germany, where solar resources are much smaller, solar energy gives 39 gigawatts). To achieve this goal, it will take about one billion euros of investment.

The accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant is one of the largest technogenic catastrophes in the history of mankind. April 26, 1986 in the fourth power unit of the station an explosion occurred, which resulted in the release of radioactive substances. In the first three months after the accident, about 30 people were killed. Nearly 8.4 million inhabitants of Belarus, Ukraine and Russia were exposed to radioactive radiation. Around the nuclear power plant was created a so-called exclusion zone, from which two cities were evacuated - Pripyat and Chernobyl, and
also 74 villages.

Source: https://lenta.ru/news/2018/01/15/chernobyl/