Thank you for this informative post! It really brings to mind just how much human beings are willing to practice wilful ignorance in the face of danger for the sake of profit. The history of the Chernobyl incident should be more than enough reason for projects such as the one in Belarus to proceed with more caution (if at all), and yet our species carries on down this suicidal path.
I'd say the usual line about how "those who forget history are doomed to repeat it", but in this case it's not even that history has been forgotten, but that those in powerful places simply don't care.