The MRI process was renamed to remove the word
"nuclear", the the WSJ
tells us:
For their discovery of what would be called "nuclear magnetic resonance," or NMR, they
won the Nobel Prize, too. NMR was later re-christened "magnetic resonance imaging," or
MRI, to avoid the troubling word "nuclear."
That was unfortunate. It made the process more palatable to the public, but at the cost
of keeping the word "nuclear" and everything associated with it unpalatable.
But maybe if we renamed nuclear power, "smokefree power", we could increase its
palatability too.
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