I didn’t mean radiation specifically. Rather overall damage due to pollution compared to the casualties in Chernobyl and Fukushima.

e.g. NIH estimates 460k excess deaths (just in the US alone) between 1999 and 2020 were caused by emission from coal plants. And that’s the period when coal became relatively “clean”.

So it must have been much worse back in the 70s and 80s.

The highest estimate for Chernobyl is 60,000. But 16,000 is probably more realistic.