Robotic Nation Evidence: Nuclear batteries

5.16.2005

Nuclear batteries

Personal Nuclear Power: New Battery Lasts 12 Years

From the article:

A new type of battery based on the radioactive decay of nuclear material is 10 times more powerful than similar prototypes and should last a decade or more without a charge, scientists announced this week... "For 50 years, people have been investigating converting simple nuclear decay into usable energy, but the yields were always too low," Fauchet explained. "We've found a way to make the interaction much more efficient, and we hope these findings will lead to a new kind of battery that can pump out energy for years.See also Toshiba's one-minute recharge battery, world's smallest fuel cell and Better battery breakthrough.

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