It's right, news about the topic have ceased to small side-note-like stuff.
Although even these small side-notes don't speak like they got any plan what to do with all the radiocative water and material from the power plant.

Meanwhile, here or there, already appeared photo series about now abandoned places within the evacuation zone. People went there like when they visit abandoned areas normally, but only that it's not single buildings they find, it's whole villages and towns.
Pripyat surely didn't look much different a few years after the fallout... It's only now like a whole ghost town and rotten because of all the time it already stood unmaintained in all seasons.

Mentioning that, actually it's a thing they also slowly admitted through the backdoor that the event in Japan also had been a nuclear meltdown. Media really did their best efforts too to put a cover on this. - While still continuing the mantra of "the Soviets were too stupid to handle a meltdown - and in the end they even were cruel, sending all that people in there who didn't even know what they were doing!".
Nothing much better happened there in Japan, only difference was: In Ukraine, one reactor went up. In Fukushima, it was 3 of six.