Although uninhabitable due to toxic levels of radiation in both the air and the soil, Chernobyl, Ukraine — the site of the worst nuclear accident in human history — will play host to a future solar plant.

Installing 3,800 photovoltaic panels one hundred meters from the site where in 1986 a reactor core at the nuclear facility melted down, leading to the disaster, officials expect the solar farm to produce one megawatt of electricity for the local power grid — roughly enough to power 2,000 homes.

Entombed in a concrete and steel shell called the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant Sarcophagus immediately after the disaster and later surrounded by the New Safe Confinement Structure, the spread of radiation at the site has been lowered, thereby lowering the chance of future disasters.

With much of the equipment on the site still usable and because the location is already set up to the electricity grid, officials believe the site is ideal for a solar farm because it wouldn’t require any digging or drilling to install, which is forbidden. Instead, the solar grid can be positioned on concrete slabs.

Because the site is reportedly unfit for human habitation for up to 24,000 years, experts believe that a solar farm is an ideal solution for making the land usable again.