No you can't. Nuclear power plants werent very connected to nuclear weapons and the public didnt think of nuclear weapons when thinking of power reactors.
Only after anti-nuclear misinformation got huge starting in the 70s.
The key to understand what started in the 70s is obviously the Vietnam War.
The fact remains that nuclear opposition is rooted neither in safety concerns nor in environmental impacts. If you ignore that, you are condemned to always miss the point - which is often happening when people discuss the nuclear question to be fair.
This is not a battle of reason but a confrontation between two incompatible moral frameworks.
Only after anti-nuclear misinformation got huge starting in the 70s.