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A tiny radioactive battery could keep your future phone running for 50 years (www.techradar.com)
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A tiny radioactive battery could keep your future phone running for 50 years::A glowing horizon for phones

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[โ€“] pelya@lemmy.world 50 points 10 months ago (1 children)

At this moment, 1 gram of radioactive Nickel-63 costs around 4,000 USD. Nickel-63 isotope does not occur in nature, it is obtained by irradiating Nickel-62 inside a nuclear reactor.

[โ€“] hglman@lemmy.ml 7 points 10 months ago

The world needs breeder reactors anyways, build out a lot of gen 4 plants and make Nickle-63 to boot.