Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant

The Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant was the site of a nuclear accident in the Soviet Union in 1986.

Fiction

Marvel The Transformers comics

Protests against Power Station Alpha included a sign admonishing the maintainers for not learning a lesson from Chernobyl. Blood on the Tracks

Dark of the Moon film

In 1986, Soviet scientists attempted to harness the power of a fuel cell retrieved from the Ark. The attempt failed, ending in a disaster that irradiated the surrounding countryside, forced the evacuation of Pripyat and rendered the area uninhabitable for tens of thousands of years.

As the long clean up continued several decades later, workers found something alien. Alexi Voskhod brought in a NEST team including Optimus Prime and Colonel William Lennox to investigate the discovery. Lennox's team ventured into the reactors and found the fuel cell, but as they were retrieving it, they were attacked by the Driller. They followed the creature outside where Optimus joined in fighting both it and Shockwave off, retrieving the fuel cell in the process. Dark of the Moon

Games

Transformers: Dark of the Moon (Xbox 360/PS3)

Megatron ordered Shockwave to go to Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant to retrieve one of the Space bridge pillars. Transformers: Dark of the Moon (Xbox 360/PS3)

Notes

• In the real world, the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant is situated on the outskirts of the now abandoned city of [[wikipedia:{{#if:|:}}Pripyat|{{#if:||Pripyat}}]]. In Dark of the Moon, the power plant is located inside the city... and to make matters even more bizarre, Alexi Voskhod explicitly says that the entrance leads through a school. Who builds a school attached to a nuclear power plant? Interestingly enough, the film novelization reveals that Voskhod's two children died in the accident; perhaps they were students there? In the real world, the official list of fatalities from this disaster to this very day only lists 31 victims, none of whom were children; though viewers of the 2019 HBO miniseries Chernobyl would recognize that this list only acknowledges the immediate casualties of the accident itself.
• Additionally, the inside of the power plant doesn't look even remotely like the inside of the real Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, which has been visited and documented by multiple people in great detail, including detailed footage of what the undamaged reactors look like. Instead of a reactor cover with lots of square caps, some of them in various colors, arranged flat on the floor in a circle, there's instead a long, multiple stories-high vertical steel contraption that vaguely resembles a blast furnace (or maybe a warp core like in Star Trek?), and the piece of Cybertronian technology is hooked up to a weird claw-like contraption.

External links

• [[wikipedia:{{#if:|:}}Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant|{{#if:||Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant}}]] at Wikipedia
• [[wikipedia:{{#if:|:}}Chernobyl disaster|{{#if:||Chernobyl disaster}}]] at Wikipedia