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#1 2002-07-12 22:37:10

Phobos
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Registered: 2002-01-02
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Re: Fission Batteries - New way to generate power?

There's an article in the Spring 2002 edition of the Sandia Technology Quarterly about a new battery that develops electricity directly from radioactive elements without using steam or heat in any way.  According to the article the battery could be built out of nuclear waste materials and a baseball sized battery could generate four million volts.  The scientists working on it think such a fission battery could work on nanometric scales and could thus be a good powersource for nano-machines.  You might be able to find info on it at the Sandia National Laboratory website.


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