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A new 1 megawatt solar plant opens a few hundred feet from the site of the 1986 disaster. By  Avery Thompson for Popular Mechanics Since 2000, the power plant at Chernobyl has been inactive. Even [...]

Energy production is about to resume at the site of the worst nuclear accident in history. BY DARMON RICHTER for Atlas Obscura n April 1986 the nuclear accident at Chernobyl devastated a large [...]