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Nuclear-powered diamond battery
December 8 , 2024
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- The Scientists from UK have successfully developed the world’s first carbon-14 diamond battery.
- It leverages the radioactive decay of carbon-14, a radioactive isotope commonly used in radiocarbon dating, to generate electricity.
- Since carbon-14 has a half-life of 5,700 years, the battery will retain half of its power even after thousands of years.
- The carbon-14 used in these batteries is extracted from graphite blocks, a very byproduct of nuclear fission reactors.
- The UK alone holds nearly 95,000 tonnes of graphite blocks.
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