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 Pripyat. In Dark of the Moon, the power plant is located inside of the city limits... and to make matters even more bizarre, Alexi Voskhod explicitly says that the entrance leads through a school. Who builds a school right next to a nuclear power plant? Interestingly enough, the novel reveals that Voskhod's two children died in the accident. Perhaps they were students there?
External links
- Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant at Wikipedia
- Chernobyl disaster at Wikipedia
