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Truly demonstrated at Atomexpo 2017 Forum IX fantastic nuclear battery that can work fifty and more years.
As explained by the General Director of FSUE NII NPO Luch, units Rosatom, Pavel Zaitsev, this prototype of a miniature and at the same time the time of a nuclear, but, most importantly, a safe power source, made on the basis of the isotope Ni-63, can produce real a revolution in the provision of modern mobile devices electricity.
It, for example, can be used not only in portable all kinds of gadgets, but also in medical devices and devices, for example, in a pacemaker, which for this reason is not necessary change throughout the life of the patient.
While the cost of such a battery is prohibitively high, because one a gram of the isotope Ni-63 costs about 4 thousand dollars, a diamond element batteries can reach a price of 100 thousand dollars, specifies Zaitsev. Therefore, talk about mass production of such It’s too early for power sources, it’s just an experimental sample. But modern technologies are developing and improving very much. fast in the sixties for example data storage (modern hard drive) a few “meters” (funny capacity for by today’s standards) weighed more than three tons and also cost tens of thousands dollars. So what about the nuclear battery of the future, which will become widely used in all kinds of gadgets and devices, today you can already really talk, and not just dream about how some a fantastic invention of the future.
By the way, let’s say that the IX Atomexpo-2017 forum took part almost a hundred domestic and foreign companies. Rosatom demonstrated to its participants not only the nuclear battery, the attention of the guests was also focused on the levitation transport module, natural scale model of the PAEC (unique floating nuclear power plant), assembly of the VVER-1200 nuclear reactor vessel and some other new products.
