The health burden of European [coal power] emission-induced PM2.5, ..., amounts to at least 16 800 (CI95 14 800–18 700) excess deaths per year over the European domain.
Chernobyl's total death toll is estimated somewhere between thousands and tens of thousands: in other words, even assuming the worst number for Chernobyl, in every year or two, coal kills the same number of Europeans as Chernobyl ever did. The number may be as low as a few months.
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Searching for "coal pollution death europe" would give:
https://www.wwf.mg/?272333/Dark%2DCloud
https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/news/air-pollut...
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/abecff
Chernobyl's total death toll is estimated somewhere between thousands and tens of thousands: in other words, even assuming the worst number for Chernobyl, in every year or two, coal kills the same number of Europeans as Chernobyl ever did. The number may be as low as a few months.
I am not disputing this, I am just saying that leaving the argument implicit might be confusing.