Comment by leonidasrup

This rare events with significnt impact on many people, like nuclear accidents, terrorist attacks, plane crashes, are always good source of drama for movies.

In case of Chernobyl, the worst case estimates are 4000 excess deaths. In comparison, about the same number of excess deaths is from coal burning in Germany each year.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/373512769_Environme...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deaths_due_to_the_Chernobyl_di...

Because coal burning is happening for decades and is not one time rare event it doesn't get the attention it deserves.

And also many organization demonizing nuclear energy do it, because they see a source of plutonium for nuclear weapons in each civilian nuclear reactor and each country running civilian nuclear reactors as a country on the brink of having nuclear weapons.