Will unattended nuclear power plants actually cause damage to their surroundings?

Scenario: Deadly virus wiped out 80 - 90% world population and it did it pretty quickly (in 2 months)

Although it is plausible that among these 10 - 20% of survivors will be people who actually know how to run nuclear power plant, it's safe to assume that they will have different tasks to solve now.

Now, I did read several apocalypse scenario questions here. And it seems that it is wide consensus, that should the nuclear power plants remain unattended for longer period of time, they will simply overheat and cause major damage to their surroundings.

I know that power plants are mainly run by computers. Also, the nuclear power plants have several backup power on and off-site to provide emergency power to help cool down.

So, In case of no natural disaster, will unattended nuclear power plant cause any damage to its surroundings?

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