According to a report from the University of Bristol’s official website on the 27th, a team of physicists and chemists has developed a new technology that can use nuclear waste to create nuclear power batteries. They wrap radioactive materials into the diamond and place a small amount of current near a radioactive source. The new study is expected to solve the problem of long-awaited nuclear waste disposal and battery life.
The research team presented the “diamond battery†prototype made of radioactive element nickel-63 in the annual “Change of the World†speech of the Cabot Institute of the University. Unlike most power generation technologies that require the use of energy-generating magnets to produce current through wires, a "diamond battery" can generate current just by approaching a radioactive source. Tom Scott, a researcher and professor of materials science at the school's Interface Analysis Center, explained that without driving any particles, there is no waste, nor does it require regular maintenance. Our new battery can generate electricity directly, turning nuclear waste into clean energy.
There are currently approximately 95,000 tons of graphite blocks containing radioactive carbon-14 in the UK. The research team is studying how to further increase the efficiency of “diamond batteries†by adding carbon-14. They found that carbon-14 is mainly concentrated on the surface of graphite blocks in nuclear power plant reactors, so it can be easily extracted, and the extracted carbon-14 can be packaged into diamonds to make a new nuclear energy battery. Neil Fox, a professor of chemistry at the school who participated in the study, believes that the short-range radiation emitted by carbon-14 can be absorbed by almost all solid materials. Once absorbed by the body or in direct contact with the skin, it will cause great harm. But now it is wrapped in diamonds, the hardest substance in the world. Carbon-14 has instead become an inexhaustible energy "gem."
Despite the low productivity compared to other battery technologies, the service life of the "diamond battery" will revolutionize the power plant: Carbon-14 will consume only 50% of its energy in 5730, especially for those inconvenient. Low-energy devices that charge or replace batteries, such as pacemakers, satellites, high-altitude drones, or even spacecraft. (Reporter Nie Cuirong)
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