> At some moment people wanted to use radioactivity for everything
And people died without a jaw because somebody sold radioactive water as a rejuvenator.
Humanity is generally not strong on principles of carefulness.
It's different though. Did we have the ubiquitous implementation of nuclear power in only its nascent early days so widespread? To assume it will peter out the same way assumes the metaphor is 1:1, when I brought it up to imply simply that since a lot of developments are happening in secret now and companies are delaying releases for safety reasons, to the public is appears as if things are slowing. Even so, AI models are still far better and cheaper now than they were simply a year ago. We have simply gotten used to breakthroughs.
And then it swung back too far in the other direction and nuclear anything became a bogeyman.
Who is making money off of fission these days?
Cars, planes, house hold appliances, engineering projects where all going to make use of fission. Energy would be revolutionized. Yes, we made large, expensive power plants and had a nuclear arms race. No, we didn't end up powering everything else with nuclear fuel, as you can see from climate change.