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 plants for cities were actually the first things developed. It currently provides around 10% of all electricity in the world.

For many years nuclear was the go-to method of electricity. Hell France was almost completely powered by nuclear until quite recently. The favorability of nuclear power has lessened considerably over the last few decades and especially after several nuclear incidents such as Three Mile Island (US), Chernobyl (USSR), and Fukishima (Japan)

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