Interesting Engineering on MSN2mon
Tiny nuclear battery promises decades of uninterrupted power in sea, space
Researchers have created a nuclear battery with unprecedented efficiency: 8,000 times more efficient. The battery developed ...
Chemistry World17d
The race to commercialise nuclear-powered batteries
Due to the fact that the radioisotopes used to power nuclear batteries are generally produced in nuclear reactors, ...
New Scientist on MSN1mon
Tiny battery made from silk hydrogel can run a mouse pacemaker
Read more Tiny nuclear-powered battery could work for decades in space or at sea Zhang and his colleagues designed the tiny ...
Fox News22d
A tiny grain of nuclear fuel is pulled from ruined Japanese nuclear plant, in a step toward cleanup
A robot that has spent months inside the ruins of a nuclear reactor at the tsunami-hit Fukushima Daiichi plant delivered a tiny sample of melted nuclear fuel on Thursday, in what plant officials ...
Hackaday8y
Make Your Own Nuclear Battery
A commercial nuclear battery from City Labs. A Betavoltaic cell is a device that uses a radioactive source of beta particles and a semiconductor p-n junction to generate electricity. Tritium ...
PC Magazine3y
tiny nuclear
Employing major advancements over the large gigawatt-sized nuclear plants installed since the 1970s, tiny nuclear is much safer. Expected to proliferate by 2030, tiny nuclear, megawatt-sized ...