In contrast, a single coal plant in Illinois, Prairie State, kills about 75 people every year with coal soot: https://www.sierraclub.org/illinois/blog/2023/02/prairie-sta...
For coal plants, murder is business as usual. That's why we need nuclear power.
We need to stop burning fossil fuels, but nuclear is simply too expensive compared to renewables.
Fuel rods from reactors near me are discarded after only 2% of the potential power is released from them. I understand that the best designs can extract 40%, leaving less waste. New reactors should be held to a minimum of 20%.
The "daughter nuclei" in the 2% exhausted fuel rods require active cooling (circulating water) for well over a year before they exhaust and cool sufficiently for dry storage. We need "walk-away safe" designs where a complete loss of power doesn't result in catastrophic explosions.
We have kept this 50s technology way past its design life. It isn't replaced because of resistance to building any more nuclear at all, which is not helping.
Until the cost problem is solved, nuclear power is dead on arrival. The existing plants were only built because of massive subsidies and the government placing a cap on the maximum liability from nuclear accidents.
Burning fossil fuels is too expensive.