Yes, the United States gets about 20% of its energy from Nuclear Power.
Nuclear energy provides about 20 percent of US electricity, so it is useful. Atomic energy is the same thing, but is now an obsolete term, we use nuclear energy as the description now.
What is traditionally called "nuclear energy" is certainly NOT easy to use - it requires some pretty advanced technology. However, when we let the Sun warm us, we are using the Sun's nuclear energy.
We use it all the time when using electricity, about 20 percent in the US
Yes, there are 104 operating reactors in the US
Batteries use chemical energy to create voltage to drive current flow. They do not use nuclear energy.
All material uses nuclear energy.
Japan and the US both use large amounts of nuclear power. The reason for this is both are highly populated, industrial countries. They use a lot of power, so they need efficient energy sources like nuclear power.
All material uses nuclear energy.
The use of nuclear energy
we use nuclear because it helps save energy
The only form of nuclear energy currently used in the US, or anywhere in the world for that matter, to produce electricity is nuclear fission. There are ongoing experiments to attempt to use nuclear fusion, but the technological problems with that have not paid off yet.
The USA started using nuclear energy in 1951