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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It takes a huge amount of capital to build and operates a nuclear plant. The average homeowner or small city does not have the right operational knowledge, capital, or ability to deal with waste. Most baseload nuclear plants are profitable because they operate at scale. The military rarely faces the same economic limitations.
That said, there are promising small scale nuclear plants being developed that might work out at the city or light industrial scale.
Another issue regulatory in that any broad use of small-scale nuclear power generation would have to come with security considerations. By its nature, the military can secure its own projects.
the average homeowner might not be able to.
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