Comment by egorfine
5 hours ago
Actually some lands were returned back to commercial usage. The land is extremely beautiful and rich. They have even created new resorts on the former land of the Exclusion Zone. [1]
I have been a part of the working group researching possible commercial usage of contaminated land, which should not be returned into agriculture or cannot be made livable BUT is perfectly suitable for things like prison, recycling plant or launch pad for space.
"cannot be made livable BUT is perfectly suitable for things like prison"
That sounds a bit dark.
My dream project for the Chernobyl Zone was a Norwegian style prison combined with college and completely and totally isolated from legacy soviet penitentiary system.
So that we can take younger first offenders and rehabilitate them and give them purpose in life.
Unfortunately, no one in the government we did discuss that gave any shit about the future of younger generation of Ukrainians.
Well, that sounds a bit nicer.
(I assume what makes it acceptable for a prison, but not "livable" is that prison inmates do not roam around, but are enclosed in a artificial compound?)
And for whether government is interested, I suppose also depends on how much more expensive it would have been?