“It rendered the city of Chernobyl and around 1,100 square miles of surrounding land uninhabitable for centuries”
If that were really true, then how come the natural life at and around Chernoble has recovered so well at this time. Is it only that officials could not tell the plants and animals to leave?
Lastly, new modern small safe nuclear power plant designs place the Chernoble plant in the kindergarten of nuclear power age.
In other words the authors no very little about nuclear power and even not enough about Chernoble, what it was and what it was not.
If indeed there was global warming to the point of rising seas and other absurdities that they spout then the best solution would be the “new, modern, small safe nuclear plant designs” you refer to. But that’s not the play here, to make abundant and cheap energy.
https://www.nuscalepower.com/technology/technology-overview