Chinese-developed nuclear battery has a 50-year lifespan — Betavolt BV100 built with Nickel-63 isotope and diamond semiconductor material

The design uses China’s first diamond semiconductor material.

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What's the specific energy and power? If it isn't terrible, could be very good for things like spacecraft.
- With all the CCP misinformation about them making 5nn chips, this could be another bullshit tech coming from the CCP.
- Deep space probes are already nuclear power sources.
  
  Right now this is mostly a radio isotope heat source and a peltier device to convert the temperature differential to electricity.
  
  Yeah, RTDs. But I don't know if these semi conductor based ones would have better performance.
- According to the article, it outputs 100 micro watts at 3 volts. Apparently for 50 years.
  
  So less than 150watthours over its entire lifespan?
Just what we need, radioactive materials in our waste stream.
- It already exists, so…
  
  ...so let's make it worse?
So you'd need 10,000 of them to generate 1 watt.

Sounds useless.
Vapor
Meanwhile the Voyager proves launched in 1977 are still live and kicking. Yeah one of them is getting pissy at us but it's still rolling.
Is this similar to Nuclear Diamond Battery that EEVBlog covered years ago?

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