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As nuclear energy gains public acceptance, compact nuclear batteries could bring "safe nuclear energy into devices the size of a finger.

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Because it decays slowly — with a half-life of 5,730 years — a radiocarbon battery could theoretically last millennia. That’s ...

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The avalanche caused panic among locals in Sarbal ... warming temperatures (which weaken the bonds between the layers), wind, terrain, vegetation, and general snowpack conditions.

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The Japan Atomic Energy Agency has developed what it says is the world's first "uranium rechargeable battery" and that tests ...

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