I don't oppose nuclear power,although I would like to see safer designs.
You should take a look at pebble bed technologies. Not perfect, but self-limiting if the reaction heads out of control.
If a coal plant had a worst case accident and the entire plant was lost then it could never compare to a worst case accident at a nuclear plant.
Well, I think you're wrong about the incredible
destructive potential of coal power infrastructure. (You should read about coal seam fires, too.)
And that leaves out the fact that even when the coal power plant is running
completely according to plan it's putting hundreds of thousands of people at risk, contributing to the inundation of coastal areas and intensity of cyclonic storms, to the pollution of aquifers and atmosphere with heavy metals and particulates, and so on.
But I will go out on a limb and say it is probably far fewer deaths simply because of how few there are compared to coal.
Well, but that's another advantage of nuclear: you need to mine far less material - and thus need far less mines and miners at risk - to generate the same amount of power.