With 99 percent of the land area of Belarus contaminated, it is just a question of degree for a population that has no place they could evacuate to. The designers of Chernobyl imagined their design was so safe that no containment was necessary, so hundreds of thousands were heavily contaminated with radioactivity. In fact, millions were contaminated to some degree. The evacuated were never able to return. There is debate as to whether the dead should be counted in the hundreds or the thousands, so far.
Lives ruined are even harder to count.
The new nuclear plants being proposed here are, their designers believe, so inherently safe that no containment structure will be needed. As Rush Limbaugh might say, I couldn't make this stuff up, folks. Relatively safe nuclear plants with containment structures are too expensive to build. This propaganda is about as truthful as an advertisement for cigarettes. Keep the existing coal plants burning, and perhaps build new ones.