IIRC this is already happening in Chernobyl - other than all the wildlife preservation & tourism there is a big solar power plant being built: https://phys.org

IIRC this is already happening in Chernobyl - other than all the wildlife preservation & tourism there is a big solar power plant being built: https://phys.org/news/2018-10-chernobyl-life-solar-power.html https://phys.org/news/2018-10-chernobyl-life-solar-power.htm... The article says they aim for up to 100 MWe capacity in the future, which would be nice, yet still illustrates how very powerful nuclear reactors are, with each of the 4 now inactive Chernobyl blocks producing 1000 MWe (and 3x times as much heat!).