So, in effect, even if the number of deaths is in dispute, the policy consequences [of Chernobyl] have happened nevertheless. In that, anti-nuclear advocates have been a lot more effective than road safety ones;
The really hard debate is to get people to admit that we have to actually reduce energy consumption. Dissing nuclear does nothing to help this, it only helps stick with coal by default. In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes