{"id":207652,"date":"2025-03-02T20:12:12","date_gmt":"2025-03-03T02:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/a-step-closer-to-limitless-energy-scientists-have-developed-a-battery-that-runs-on-nuclear-waste"},"modified":"2025-03-02T20:12:12","modified_gmt":"2025-03-03T02:12:12","slug":"a-step-closer-to-limitless-energy-scientists-have-developed-a-battery-that-runs-on-nuclear-waste","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/a-step-closer-to-limitless-energy-scientists-have-developed-a-battery-that-runs-on-nuclear-waste","title":{"rendered":"A Step Closer to Limitless Energy? Scientists Have Developed a Battery That Runs on Nuclear Waste"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-step-closer-to-limitless-energy-scientists-have-developed-a-battery-that-runs-on-nuclear-waste.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers have developed a battery capable of converting nuclear energy into electricity through light emission, according to a new study.<\/p>\n<p>Nuclear power plants generate about 20% of the electricity in the United States and produce minimal greenhouse gas emissions. However, they also generate radioactive waste, which poses risks to human health and the environment, making safe disposal a significant challenge.<\/p>\n<p>To address this, a team led by researchers from <a href=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/tag\/ohio-university\/\">The Ohio State University<\/a> designed a system that harnesses ambient gamma radiation to generate electricity. By combining scintillator crystals\u2014high-density materials that emit light when exposed to radiation\u2014with solar cells, they successfully converted nuclear energy into an electric output powerful enough to run microelectronics, such as microchips.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers have developed a battery capable of converting nuclear energy into electricity through light emission, according to a new study. Nuclear power plants generate about 20% of the electricity in the United States and produce minimal greenhouse gas emissions. However, they also generate radioactive waste, which poses risks to human health and the environment, making [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"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-207652","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\/207652","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207652\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}