I said "stored well and safely without issue".
You find 2 dead workers from an industrial accident over a 70 year history that was not actually about nuclear waste but was a fuel processing and fabrication facility making fuel for experimental reactors. Not civilian power reactors. [1]
Even if you included it (which clearly it's not related to waste so shouldn't) it would still be the safest and best managed waste of anything we have!
The exclusion zone is not nuclear waste. It is interesting though because a lot of research after the event seems to show that the evacuation and such a large exclusion zone was a mistake and we should evacuate less in such events. But in the moment I get everyone was scared and didn't have a good idea of what to do.
[1] https://world-nuclear.org/information-library/safety-and-sec...