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The Russians made a huge breakthrough in the technology of “nuclear batteries”. . Now the world “is not the same bude»

New nuclear batteries can be used in a very wide range – from the spacecraft to kardioimplantov. This is reported by Russian specialists.

The specialists of the National Research Technological University “Moscow Institute of Steel and Alloys” (MISA, Moscow) have developed a new technology to create a “nuclear batteries” on the basis of the radioactive isotope nickel-63, which can be used in various fields – from medicine to space research, the press service of the university

properties-63 nickel makes it very convenient basis for miniature, safe and low-power of so-called beta-voltaicheskih batteries with a long service life (more than 50. years). They can be used in particular to create pacemakers and autonomous power sources with long life for powering satellites. Nickel-63 do not exist, so it is produced by irradiation of the isotope nickel-62 with neutrons in a nuclear reactor with further reprocessing and separation into gas centrifuges.

Group of scientists MISA under the direction of head of the department of materials science of semiconductors and dielectrics Professor Yuri Parkhomenko developed technology for creating energy converters beta-nickel-63 into electrical energy through piezoelectric single crystals for use in stand-alone beta voltaicheskih AC voltage batteries.

«The use of switching power supplies (they accumulate and give charge) allows to overcome the limitations caused by the small capacity of the beta voltaicheskih nuclear batteries “- said Parkhomenko, whose words are quoted in the report