A typical large scale nuclear plant produces 3 cubic meters of waste fuel which is (in the US at least) stored onsite in cooling pools. It is not "dirty as hell".

green renewable should be our goals, we're bathed in power every day it just needs to be bottled.

There is a lot to unpack in this vague statement, but generally speaking, utility-scale power generation from nuclear has the lowest ecological footprint, not just in land area, but all-told. A solar farm is a big, complex, thing with a huge footprint.