Reports about the loss of power today at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant site in the Ukraine mentioned that the lack of electricity is not yet a problem but could lead to problems cooling the spent fuel that is stored at the site. While reading around on Wikipedia to try to understand more about that spent fuel, I discovered that the city closest to the site, Pripyat, was abandoned after the 1986 accident, with all its residents being moved to a completely new city 45 kilometers away, Slavutych. But Pripyat itself didn't have a long history either: it had only been founded in 1970 to serve the newly opened power plant. (Andrew Shields, #111words, 9 March 2022)
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