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Re:DARPA wants to bypass the thermal middleman in nuclear po... by arcticbull on Friday August 09, 2024 @07:11PM (#41206142)
Well yes but only if destroyed. Then wouldn’t you call that a feature? When in their enclosures there should be no radiation.
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Re:DARPA wants to bypass the thermal middleman in nuclear po... by giantg2 on Friday August 09, 2024 @07:14PM (#41206162)
No way could all the alerts be tracked.
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Re:DARPA wants to bypass the thermal middleman in nuclear po... by jacobgkau on Friday August 09, 2024 @07:40PM (#41206302)
Yeah, you bring up another angle to look at it from: even if the alerts didn't go off when the batteries are being used/stored properly, it would make it easy to create a lot of noise/false positives as part of an actual attack (were those batteries to be readily available).
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Re:DARPA wants to bypass the thermal middleman in nuclear po... by arcticbull on Friday August 09, 2024 @08:10PM (#41206436)
They were for a long time, betavoltaics were used in pacemakers. They started using more conventional batteries because the betavoltaics far outlasted the actual pacemakers.
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Re:DARPA wants to bypass the thermal middleman in nuclear po... by jacobgkau on Thursday August 22, 2024 @11:11AM (#41321196)
That's interesting. I imagine parts for an internal medical device would be able to be more tightly controlled than batteries for general usage, but maybe I'm wrong.
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