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Chinese-developed nuclear battery has a 50-year lifespan — Betavolt BV100 built with Nickel-63 isotope and diamond semiconductor material (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

What's the specific energy and power? If it isn't terrible, could be very good for things like spacecraft.

[–] StrawberryPigtails@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 2 years ago

According to the article, it outputs 100 micro watts at 3 volts. Apparently for 50 years.

[–] MilderRichter@feddit.de 1 points 2 years ago

Deep space probes are already nuclear power sources.

Right now this is mostly a radio isotope heat source and a peltier device to convert the temperature differential to electricity.