Nuclear batteries: a thousand years without recharging

in news •  8 years ago 

‘Diamond-age’ of power generation as nuclear batteries developed


New technology has been developed that uses nuclear waste to generate electricity in a nuclear-powered battery. A team of physicists and chemists from the University of Bristol have grown a man-made diamond that, when placed in a radioactive field, is able to generate a small electrical current. The development could solve some of the problems of nuclear waste, clean electricity generation and battery life.

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