Chernobyl had far worse consequences than you are indicating, even taking into account a coals plant's lifetime impact from mining to air pollution. Aside from

Chernobyl had far worse consequences than you are indicating, even taking into account a coals plant's lifetime impact from mining to air pollution. Aside from the headline numbers of 31 dead and 237 with acute radiation poisoning other costs include: - Encasing the site in a sarcophagus that will need to be maintained essentially forever. Immediate disaster response was estimated at $18B in today's dollars. - A 30km exclusion zone from which 135,000 people were evacuated. Costs from this include costs of resettlement, loss of essentially all capital, cropland, and infrastructure in the zone - Outside the zone millions of tons of contaminated earth were trucked for containment. Remediation is ongoing to this day and will continue indefinitely. Certain agricultural production is limited by type and practice to reduce probability of contamination from deeper in the soil. - Health monitoring response across Europe in the aftermath, plus increased monitoring forever in the neighboring countries - An unknown number of additional cancers and birth defects There are additional costs, mostly more evacuees than were likely strictly necessary and compensation to others affected. Its unclear how much of this are legitimate costs or not, but its worth noting that uncertainty and lack of transparency themselves have costs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_disaster https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_disaster https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effects_of_the_Chernobyl_disaster https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effects_of_the_Chernobyl_disas...