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

Researchers have developed a groundbreaking battery using radioactive diamond technology that can generate electricity for ...

So far their prototype uses a nickel-63 source, but they hope to instead take carbon-14 from the huge number of stockpiled graphite blocks from old reactors, and use it to create radioactive ...

Shortwave radiation from the decaying carbon-14 doesn ... The carbon-14 was extracted from graphite blocks, a readily available byproduct of nuclear fission reactors. While still early days ...

The battery uses carbon-14, a radioactive isotope of carbon ... Carbon-14 is generated in graphite blocks in some nuclear fission powerplants. The UK holds almost 95,000 tonnes of graphite ...

This encapsulation not only prevents radioactive leakage but also utilizes ... The carbon-14 used in the batteries is extracted from graphite blocks, which are waste products in nuclear power ...

The management of radioactive graphite waste is one of the major challenges of nuclear power plant decommissioning throughout the world, particularly in the UK, as well as in France and Russia. More ...