{"id":207233,"date":"2025-02-25T15:14:18","date_gmt":"2025-02-25T21:14:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/scientists-design-novel-battery-that-runs-on-atomic-waste"},"modified":"2025-02-25T15:14:18","modified_gmt":"2025-02-25T21:14:18","slug":"scientists-design-novel-battery-that-runs-on-atomic-waste","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/scientists-design-novel-battery-that-runs-on-atomic-waste","title":{"rendered":"Scientists design novel battery that runs on atomic waste"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-design-novel-battery-that-runs-on-atomic-waste3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers have developed a battery that can convert nuclear energy into electricity via light emission, a new study suggests.<\/p>\n<p>Nuclear power plants, which generate about 20% of all electricity produced in the United States, produce almost no greenhouse gas emissions. However, these systems do create <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/radioactive+waste\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">radioactive waste<\/a>, which can be dangerous to human health and the environment. Safely disposing of this waste can be challenging.<\/p>\n<p>Using a combination of scintillator crystals, high-density materials that emit light when they absorb radiation, and <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/solar+cells\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">solar cells<\/a>, the team, led by researchers from The Ohio State University, demonstrated that ambient gamma radiation could be harvested to produce a strong enough electric output to power microelectronics, like microchips.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers have developed a battery that can convert nuclear energy into electricity via light emission, a new study suggests. Nuclear power plants, which generate about 20% of all electricity produced in the United States, produce almost no greenhouse gas emissions. However, these systems do create radioactive waste, which can be dangerous to human health and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1495,873,1633,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-207233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-health","category-nuclear-energy","category-solar-power","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207233\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}