{"id":79416,"date":"2018-06-10T21:22:48","date_gmt":"2018-06-11T04:22:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/researchers-have-invented-an-awesome-and-scary-nuclear-battery-pack"},"modified":"2018-06-11T11:02:37","modified_gmt":"2018-06-11T18:02:37","slug":"researchers-have-invented-an-awesome-and-scary-nuclear-battery-pack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/researchers-have-invented-an-awesome-and-scary-nuclear-battery-pack","title":{"rendered":"Researchers Have Invented an Awesome And Scary Nuclear Battery Pack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-have-invented-an-awesome-and-scary-nuclear-battery-pack.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Are we ready?<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Batteries powered by radioactive materials have been around for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rexresearch.com\/nucell\/nucell.htm\">more than a century<\/a>, but what they promise in power they usually lose in bulk.<\/p>\n<p>Not so with a new kind of power source, which combines a novel structure with a nickel isotope to pack ten times more power than an electrochemical cell of the same size. The only question is, are we ready to go nuclear?<\/p>\n<p>A team of Russian researchers have put a new spin on technology that uses the beta decay of a radioactive element to create differences in voltage.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/high-power-nickel-63-betavoltaic-device-shrinks-pacemaker-radioactive-batteries\">https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/high-power-nickel-63-betavoltai...-batteries<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are we ready? Batteries powered by radioactive materials have been around for more than a century, but what they promise in power they usually lose in bulk. Not so with a new kind of power source, which combines a novel structure with a nickel isotope to pack ten times more power than an electrochemical cell [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,873],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-nuclear-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79416","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\/413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79416"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79481,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79416\/revisions\/79481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}