Researchers have created a nuclear battery with unprecedented efficiency: 8,000 times more efficient. The battery developed by the research team at China’s Soochow University harnesses the energy of radioactive decay,

A new design for a nuclear battery that generates electricity from the radioactive decay of americium is unprecedentedly efficient

When you picture a sci-fi energy source, glowing green crystals are right up there. Scientists in China have now demonstrated just that, in the form of a “micronuclear battery” that can provide continuous low levels of power for decades.

A team of physicists and engineers affiliated with several institutions in China has developed an extremely small nuclear battery that they claim is up to 8,000 times more efficient than its predecessors.