Chernobyl Has a New Power Plant, But This Time It's Solar. A new 1 megawatt solar plant opens a few hundred feet from the site of the 1986 nuclear reactor disaster.

It is the first time the site has produced power since 2000, when the nuclear plant was finally shut down. Valery Seyda, head of the Chernobyl nuclear plant, said it had looked like the site would never produce energy again.

“But now we are seeing a new sprout, still small, weak, producing power on this site and this is very joyful,” he said.