Groundbreaking Battery Powered By Nuclear Waste Lasts 1,000's of Years

22 Jan 2023 | Abstracted from The Brighterside

"Radioactive diamond batteries were first developed by a team of physicists and chemists from the Cabot Institute...presented as a betavoltaic device...the power density of the radioactive source is lower...This means that nuclear batteries are much less efficient than other types of batteries...radioactive diamond batteries wouldn’t be suitable for laptops or smartphones..only a few microwatts, which is less than a typical AA battery."

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