The total lifetime death toll from Chernobyl including cases of cancer from decades later, is estimated to top out at 80,000 lives.
Local pollution from coal power plants (not even counting the CO2) takes 80,000 lives per year.
The single worst nuclear power disaster in history, which required everything to go wrong and which would be impossible based on modern safety procedures, is still no worse than business as usual for coal.
In fact, if you compare modern nuclear against solar power, solar is actually the more deadly form of energy, because of workers falling off roofs.
The total lifetime death toll from Chernobyl including cases of cancer from decades later, is estimated to top out at 80,000 lives.
Local pollution from coal power plants (not even counting the CO2) takes 80,000 lives per year.
The single worst nuclear power disaster in history, which required everything to go wrong and which would be impossible based on modern safety procedures, is still no worse than business as usual for coal.
In fact, if you compare modern nuclear against solar power, solar is actually the more deadly form of energy, because of workers falling off roofs.