Atomic Battery

A new design for a nuclear battery that generates electricity from the radioactive decay of americium is unprecedentedly efficient

The radioactive unit will help to deliver Europe's first Mars rover to the planet's surface

BetaVolt's BV100 is smaller than a coin and contains a radioactive isotope of nickel that decays into copper and supplies power to a device for up to 50 years. But it probably won't power your smartphone anytime soon, an expert suggests.

The NASA team hopes the iconic spacecraft and its twin can continue taking data beyond the solar system past their 50th birthdays.

The torpedoes would be powered by disposable nuclear reactors, which would be dumped on the sea floor, and could travel over 6,000 miles.

Scientists are building a micro nuclear reactor, which aims to be able to be significantly cheaper and faster to build than conventional light water reactors.

Associate provost and Japan Steel Industry Professor at MIT, Richard K. Lester, spearheads the MIT Climate Grand Challenges program — an initiative that engages faculty members to develop concrete proposals for solutions to the climate crisis.

A new miniature nuclear battery could supply electricity for decades, centuries, even millennia.

This thing keeps going and going and going...

Kronos Advanced Technologies and Yasheng Group announced that they collaborated to create the Nickel 62 nuclear battery that can be used in the military and other industries.

They are found in everyday tech devices, and China controls a huge part of the market.

Ultra Safe Nuclear's radioisotope battery would power orbiting satellites

NASA says it'll distribute up to $2.45 million to 14 teams in support of experimental projects that would be right at home in the pages of a science-fiction ...

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Vice-president and wife exposed to 'massive dosages' of ionising radiation at US ambassador's residence, declassified files show

The phrase "nuclear energy" conjures images of large steaming towers or Tony Stark's arc reactor from the iconic "Iron Man" movies. But two Seattle-based startups are designing nuclear technologies small enough to pick up and carry that, thanks in part to buy-in from the Defense Department, they hope will fuel a new generation of spaceships.

Nobel laureate Otto Hahn is credited with the discovery of nuclear fission. Fission is one of the most important discoveries of the 20th century, yet Hahn considered something else to be his best scientific work.In 1921, he was studying radioactivity at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Chemistry in ...

Atomic Batteries are what power the world in Atomfall, so how do you get and use them?

A study published in Optical Materials: X outlines how ambient gamma radiation can be harvested to generate electricity for microelectronics. The prototype battery, measuring just four cubic...

The world's first nuclear-diamond battery uses carbon-14, which has a half-life of 5,700 years, to power devices.