The Chernobyl Power Plant is named after the city Chernobyl, located 9 miles south south-east of the plant. To help the new workers at the plant a sister city was built, called Prypiat.
Built as a testament to the New Soviet way of life, and the Power plant as a shining example of soviet engineering, Life [...]
Today Chernobyl is used as a backdrop for a few different games, the most recent being Activisions Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, which uses Prypiat as a setting for missions and the disaster itself as part of the plot.
Terrorists break into the Chernobyl power plant and steal nuclear material to sell on the black [...]
On 26th april 1986, the number 4 reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant near Pripyat in Ukraine exploded creating one of the worlds worst nuclear plant disasters in history. The Chernobyl Forum published a report in 2005, led by the International Atomic Energy Agency and World Health Organization , attributed as few as 56 deaths, 47 of them being accident workers, directly to the incident. Although many [...]
