This is the same as saying "well some unaligned countries will use refined nuclear material for energy, too!" lmao.

The vast majority of frontier research is about how to build better models, not about alignment.

And as a matter of fact, there's a lot of meaningful research into how to have different sorts of nuclear material that might be usable for power production but not hidden malicious development. That's the closest analog to "safety" and "alignment" in your scenario.