A research team at the university of bristol has developed a way to use a type of nuclear waste to generate electricity in a nuclear powered battery that is an actual diamond. Nano diamond battery that changes the world 100s of years. And orano s collaboration has started and both companies will discuss and structure the business collaboration.
Following this announcement ndb inc. Ndb as the winner of orano call has started a collaboration with the world s largest nuclear power and renewable energy company. Carbon 14 is a β particle fast electron emitter decaying to nitrogen 14.
Now it is working to improve efficiency by using carbon 14 which can be extracted from used graphite moderator blocks from nuclear reactors. The team has demonstrated a prototype diamond battery using nickel 63 as the radiation source. The concept of a diamond battery which would be created synthetically from radioactive carbon 14 sourced from nuclear waste is at this point a theoretical idea and it is one that comes.
The graphite is used to harvest radioactive carbon which in diamond form generates a low electrical current. Waste graphite from nuclear plants could be used in cutting edge diamond batteries. Next generation diamond batteries that use energy from radioactive materials have already.
Scientists are attempting to transform nuclear waste into batteries that can last for thousands of years. Diamond battery is the name of a prototype battery proposed by the university of bristol cabot institute during their annual lecture held on 25 november 2016 at the wills memorial building this battery is proposed to run on the radioactivity of waste graphite blocks previously used as neutron moderator material in nuclear reactors and would last for thousands of years.
