University of Bristol develops battery out of nuclear waste that can last 5,000 years

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Carbon-14 from nuclear power plants could be recycled to make better batteries

A team of physicists and chemists at the University of Bristol have developed a low-power battery out of nuclear waste that, they claim, will run for 5,730 years before it even reaches 50 per cent ...

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