"Stewart Brand’s 2010 book Whole Earth cites novelist and author Gwyneth Cravens’s claim that “A nuclear plant producing 1,000 megawatts (...) takes up a third of a square mile.” But this direct plant footprint omits the owner-controlled exclusion zone (~1.9–3.1 mi2). Including all site areas barred to other uses (except sometimes a public road or railway track), the U.S. Department of Energy’s nuclear cost guidexsays the nominal site needs 7 mi2, or 21x Cravens’s figure."