[avar]

It's a pretty high bar. Three mile island has a lifetime production of ~250 TWh, coal kills ~25 people per TWh.

So if it had killed ~6000 people it would be within the accepted norms of the energy industry for anything that isn't nuclear.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/death-rates-from-energy-p...

[natmaka]

Nowadays this is not about "nuclear vs. coal" but "nuclear vs. renewables (which are way less deadly than coal)".