Russian battery ambitions see a 10x increase in power from smaller, denser nukes
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/06/04/russias_nuclear_battery_ambition_see_a_10x_increase_in_power/
Russian boffins at the Moscow Institute of Physics (MIPT) have emitted a prototype nuclear battery packing 3,300 milliwatt hours of energy per gram.
The paper, published in Diamond and Related Materials, describes a betavoltaic battery powered by the beta decay of the nickel-63 isotope giving 10 times the power of conventional commercial cells.
Russian battery ambitions see a 10x increase in power from smaller, denser nukes
Jun 4, 2018, 8:15am UTC
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/06/04/russias_nuclear_battery_ambition_see_a_10x_increase_in_power/
> Russian boffins at the Moscow Institute of Physics (MIPT) have emitted a prototype nuclear battery packing 3,300 milliwatt hours of energy per gram.
> The paper, published in Diamond and Related Materials, describes a betavoltaic battery powered by the beta decay of the nickel-63 isotope giving 10 times the power of conventional commercial cells.