How do we have nuclear powered submarines/ships/satellites but don’t have nuclear power for our homes/cities ect?

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More appropriately, I may be thinking of fusion, which leads to what is the difference between that and what we currently use?

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Nuclear power needs a lot of looking after to prevent something going wrong and the ships have engineers dedicated to that task 24 hours a day which wouldn’t be appropriate for a single house, however in many locations nuclear power stations do supply a proportion of the electricity to homes.

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