This. People have phantasm about Chernobyl that are straight out of their imagination, in a fear driven narrative that is very far from the reality. When you look into it, you find that deaths directly linked to the meltdown are contained to people on site and first responders. Even the army of cleaners suffer more from random life risk (alcohol, smoking, cardiovascular diseases, etc...) than anything related to nuclear meltdown induced health issues.

But people are ideologically driven against it, in a quasi-religious way (worse than actual soft religion followers actually). There is no way to properly argue with those people, just like flat earthers, so we get the current sentiment on nuclear.

At least it's changing and those people will go the way of the dinosaurs, I hope.