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Chernobyl Radioactive Zone May Get Giant French-Built Solar Park

  • French company said to be considering gigawatt-sized project
  • Ukrainian government seeking investors for renewables park
The Chernobyl nuclear plant on April 26, 2017.

The Chernobyl nuclear plant on April 26, 2017.

Photographer: Genya Savilov/AFP/Getty Images

Ukraine is talking to one of France’s largest energy companies about building a giant, billion-euro ($1.25 billion) solar park in the uninhabited radioactive zone surrounding the abandoned Chernobyl nuclear reactor.

Engie SA is beginning a pre-feasibility study funded by the French government next week with the results expected for the end of the year, Ukraine’s minister of ecology, Ostap Semerak, said in a Friday interview in London.