In Arthur C. Clarke's story
The Sands of Mars, nuclear engineering is used to ignite Phobos, thereby turning it into a tiny sun. The light generated thereby is used to facilitate the rapid spread and growth of a genetically-engineered plant that extracts oxygen from the martian surface cover; in that way, Mars's atmosphere is regenerated, to make the planet habitable by humans.
An engineer who explains the process says, of the ignition of Phobos, "we used a simple meson-resonance reaction."
The Martian Chronicles sci-fi by Ray Bradbury, made into a mini-series for 1980 with Rock Hudson.
Mission to Mars, movie with Gary Sinise, 2000, and
The Martian, 2015, starring Matt Damon.
All good. Any others?