Uploaded January 2025 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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You may have heard of batteries made from nuclear waste, but these new power sources are a bit different. They use the beta decay of carbon-14 to generate a small amount of electricity that could in theory last THOUSANDS of years.

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newsweek.com/diamond-battery-carbon-14-radioactive-decay-first-1996250
iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1149/2162-8777/abe423

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