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In case anyone else was wondering, the "MWh/acre" stats near the beginning are per year. Here they are converted to units that I find more meaningful:

"...a nuclear power plant can generate over 6,507 kW/acre compared to solar at 23 kW/acre, or a natural gas plant at 114 kW/acre."

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What an absolutely meaningless metric for power generation in one of the largest countries on earth by land area.

Indeed: agrivoltaics is under active R&D. Initial results seem to indicate that in dry areas PV can actually increase crop yields while reducing irrigation demand.

So in effect it has a negative land requirement in those places.

It's the one stat which makes nuclear look good, so of course it's mentioned as if it has any relevance whatsoever.

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