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Chernoble effected Thousands not hundreds as in a plane crash and made great areas of the landscape uninhabitable for both Man and creatures alike.
Lots of people across Europe and Russia where effected
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Best estimates put the maximum death toll from Chernobyl and it's after effects at 4000, over a 100 year period after the disaster. That comes from the leading medical experts.
As for the place being uninhabited, the trees are still growing, plants are thriving (actually the towns which were evacuated are being reclaimed by the forests there) and animals live there as well. Yes, there are problems still with the radiation, but nothing like the place being turned into some kind of wasteland/desert. It's unsafe for people and will be for quite some time, but if you want to see what happens after a long time, just take a quick look at Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Both the bombs dropped on those cities put out far more deadly radioactivity than Chernobyl ever did, yet there's nearly 2 million people living in both cities. Where's the problems there, now??