title: The Nuclear Landscape as a Garden
abstract: Nuclear energy, today often associated with devastating environmental catastrophes, inspired promethean imaginaries of large-scale nature improvement in the postwar heydays of high-modern optimism. Fuel-reproducing fast breeder reactors (FBRs) in particular were expected to provide unlimited quantities of inexpensive energy in the near future for purposes such as the large-scale desalination of seawater – an application both the United States and the USSR deemed highly promising for the developm