Diamond Batteries Made of Nuclear Waste Can Generate Power For Thousands of Years Scientist have developed an ingenious means of converting nuclear power plant waste (76,430 metric tons in the US alone) into sustainable diamond batteries. These long-lasting batteries could be a clean and safe way to power spacecraft, satellites, and even medical devices. The nuclear diamond battery has an incredible lifetime, and will only be half used up by the year 7746. This makes it an ideal power solution for “situations where it is not feasible to charge or replace conventional batteries,” said Tom Scott, a materials science professor at Cabot Institute. Well if it is really true, it does sound pretty interesting. Wondering what it would cost, and how safe is it really? What if someone manages to collect a thousand of these batteries, would they pose any risk? But seriously it would at least mean some use out of all this nuclear waste being generated. Original source is the University of Bristol at http://ift.tt/2fzXbox. See http://ift.tt/2fF8Dfl
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