Look at this. Look at it as long as you like: https://www.google.com/maps/@51.3886475,30.0983731,1302m/dat...
https://www.satimagingcorp.com/gallery/worldview-2/worldview...
Of course, noooo, can't happen to us. Our nuclear plants and waste disposal facilities are totally safe!
Oops
https://web.archive.org/web/20200118022609/https://www.abqjo...
Fukushima exclusion zone: 1,600 mi²
I can't seem to find great numbers of how much land we expect to lose to climate change, I expect it will be quite large.
I'm personally pro nuclear, but it's pretty clear we were building fairly dangerous plants back when Chernobyl & Fukushima were built. I still don't think it's a foregone conclusion that the world would be worse or better if we had built many of them in the US.
Fukushima was a bad plant because they built it in a tsunami zone. Otherwise its design isn't dangerous either. But it got destroyed by unexpected tsunami. People should have expected the tsunami can happen and not build the plant there. People were stupid, NPP design would be fine if built far from tsunamis.