Here's a source from a recent Australian survey:

"...asked whether respondents agreed or disagreed with the statement "I would be comfortable living close to a nuclear power plant", only 28% agreed and 60% disagreed." [1]

The part about it being due to uninhabitable cities (referring to Chernobyl, Pripyat and Fukushima) was conjecture - I don't know people's reasons for it.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/jun/18/austr...

28% of the total population can provide full occupancy of all the areas near nuclear plants. Those ignorant or willing to live in discomfort will ease the capitalist equalizing that will naturally encourage that 28% to fill those houses.

Fair enough, but the housing prices in the area will take a huge hit while the non-supporters move out. It would be political suicide for a local government to support it.

if housing wasn’t viewed as an investment that makes up a disproportionate amount of wealth, this wouldn’t be an issue

What happens if you ask, say, the French, who have been living next to their nuclear power plants for decades.