https://www.wwf.mg/?272333/Dark%2DCloud
> It reveals that in 2013 their emissions were responsible for over 22,900 premature deaths, ...
https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/news/air-pollut...
> Pollution from Europe’s coal plants responsible for ‘up to 34,000 deaths each year’
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/abecff
> The health burden of European [coal power] emission-induced PM2.5, ..., amounts to at least 16 800 (CI95 14 800–18 700) excess deaths per year over the European domain.
Chernobyl's total death toll is estimated somewhere between thousands and tens of thousands: in other words, even assuming the worst number for Chernobyl, in every year or two, coal kills the same number of Europeans as Chernobyl ever did. The number may be as low as a few months.
