“Enter EPCOT, the Experimental Prototype City of Tomorrow, which Walt wanted to place in his Florida property – a property that was incorporated as its own special economic zone, with control over zoning, planning, and other regulation, up to and including the power to site a private nuclear plant to keep the power flowing.”
Not really that surprising, in the context of a 1960ies frame of mind.
For what it’s worth, if you want to, you can also visit a theme park that has been built in a former “fast breeder” nuclear power plant (that never went operational):
