Nuclear Waste Recycled Into Diamond Batteries

By encapsulating radioactive material inside diamonds we turn a long term problem of nuclear waste into a nuclear powered battery and a long term supply of clean energy explained the positives of this idea universitys professor tom scott.

Nuclear medicine biology soviet union army. Turn it into diamonds that can be used as long lasting batteries. A team of uk atomic energy authority ukaea scientists are collaborating with researchers at the university of bristol to develop the technology which makes use of irradiated graphite. Researchers have found a way to use diamonds to convert nuclear waste into long lasting batteriesa team of physicists and chemists at the university of bristol discovered the new technology.

Nuclear waste is recycled into diamond batteries that last practically forever. The structure of graphite blocks in a nuclear reactor edf energy. Aerial view of the berkeley site berkeley laboratories group.

Diamond batteries made from nuclear waste could be used to power electronics on a potentially near infinite basis without the need for a recharge. Scientists turn nuclear waste into long lived diamond batteries the diamonds are made from radioactive graphite and can generate a small electric current for thousands of years. Radioactive recycling to make use of the radioactive waste from nuclear plants university of bristol scientists have an unusual plan.

Nuclear waste could be recycled for diamond battery power.