Excluded from Russian vandalism

Built as a symbol of hope amid disaster, the decision to construct a solar site at Chornobyl may have saved it from the destruction that other power generation facilities suffered during early Russian advances in Ukraine, as Ian Skarytovsky explains.

Issue 09 – 2023 | Solar springs eternal

Rodina chose a site just a few hundred meters from the reactor for its 1 MW solar plant so the project could better serve as a symbol for the possibilities of working inside the exclusion zone.

Photo: Solar Chernobyl

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