Prypiat

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 [...]

Modern References

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 [...]