‘Diamond-age’ of power generation as nuclear batteries developed

Re:‘Diamond-age’ of power generation as nuclear batteries de... by extrapickles on Tuesday November 29, 2016 @12:10PM (#13064348)

They are "off the shelf" in that you can give them a call and in 6 weeks have one. I suspect they obtain and load the nuclear material for your order, but the rest of the device is stocked as it involves custom semiconductors which have fairly large minimum orders.

These are the class of battery that would replace the CMOS battery in something that can never lose power to its RAM, rather than the much more powerful RTGs that space probes use.

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Re:‘Diamond-age’ of power generation as nuclear batteries de... by aminorex on Tuesday November 29, 2016 @12:50PM (#13064662)

Part of a spectrum from MEMs through pacemaker batteries, Cassini-style RTG, pebble-bed reactors, up to massive GE/Siemens style LWRs. It's a remarkably scalable tech, both up- and down- scale.

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