Coal and nuclear (and natural gas) are about the same land use area footprint (https://www.strata.org/pdf/2017/footprints-full.pdf https://www.strata.org/pdf/2

Coal and nuclear (and natural gas) are about the same land use area footprint (https://www.strata.org/pdf/2017/footprints-full.pdf https://www.strata.org/pdf/2017/footprints-full.pdf graph on last page). Solar (3x), wind (5x), hydro (25x) are much higher land use. Note that resource extraction use is considered temporary (and in the US, companies are required to pay for restoration, per the link above). Wind uses a large area, but agricultural use can proceed at the same time. We currently have no viable CO2 removal technology. Nuclear power has no chance of destroying the planet (or even the biosphere).