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Solar panels unveiled at Chernobyl nuclear power site in Ukraine

However people will not be able to return to live in the evacuated zone for another 24,000 years, Ukrainian authorities say

24000 years... by then we've probably wiped ourselves out with all the chemicals in our food, water and environment.

power 2000 households, nice, they don't mention battery storage.
 
24000 years... by then we've probably wiped ourselves out with all the chemicals in our food, water and environment.

power 2000 households, nice, they don't mention battery storage.

Do you suppose they forgot about that component?
 

As I understand it, the solar-panels energy will be amalgamated and fed into the existent electric transmission lines that once powered the Chernobyl nuclear facility.
 
As I understand it, the solar-panels energy will be amalgamated and fed into the existent electric transmission lines that once powered the Chernobyl nuclear facility.

ok so may be they don't have backup batteries, we've had big problems in South Australia but that was due to a major event.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_South_Australian_blackout


 
If one can't live there why are these workers milling around without protective gear?
 
24000 years... by then we've probably wiped ourselves out with all the chemicals in our food, water and environment.

power 2000 households, nice, they don't mention battery storage.

if they need it, they will ask Mask like you did)
 
If one can't live there why are these workers milling around without protective gear?

its very a popular tourist- tour in Belarus and Ukraine , if you follow the guiding lines nothing bad will happened to you
 
If one can't live there why are these workers milling around without protective gear?

1) Living in the Exclusion Zone and spending a day there are vastly different things.

2) They are not near the reactor site. Radiation diminishes the farther away you are. In addition, the damaged reactor (#4) is now encased in a special sarcophagus (2017).

I spent about 8 hours at Chernobyl once (mostly in the deserted town of Pripyat). But I did venture to within 400 meters of the damaged reactor.

My dosimeter (mSv/h) informed me that I was receiving a yearly dose of radiation in only one hour. This was prior to the sarcophagus.



The Novarka containment structure (sarcophagus) shielding reactor #4 at Chernobyl.
 
24000 years... by then we've probably wiped ourselves out with all the chemicals in our food, water and environment.

power 2000 households, nice, they don't mention battery storage.

24000 years may be an overstatement, initially they believed the whole area would be uninhabitable, now they have tourists through the area. Many areas the radiation dissipated rather quickly, while some areas like the reactor and certain hotspots still have deadly radiation levels.

Either way for safety reasons inhabiting the area is for a very long time going to be a no go, the solar panels were meant as a way to utilize space where constant manpower is unfeasable, basically making gain from wasted space, which is far better than doing nothing with it.
 
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