For over three decades now the exclusion zone around Chernobyl has been left abandoned, following the nuclear meltdown which saw 116,000 people evacuated in 1986.
Unable to use the area for livestock, farming crops or forestry, because of the potential contamination dangers, the Ukrainian authorities have been at a loss about what to do with the 1000 square miles of wasteland.
Not content with leaving this “black hole in the middle of Ukraine”, a private company is now planning on installing solar panels and using it as a renewable energy zone.
deurbanic via Getty Images