I live in a village with 3k people and idk who the fuck anybody is. To be fair I don't go outside much, but even at 3k we're far from close-knit.
I know my family, I know the librarians, I kind of know but don't really interact with my immediate neighbors, and thats about it.
They never claimed that nuclear is bad, they claimed that the Chernobyl disaster has already negatively impacted the land enough, mining would only make it worse