Comment on Coin-sized nuclear 3V battery with 50-year lifespan enters mass production
floo@retrolemmy.com 1 month agoYeah, that’s how the battery works.
Comment on Coin-sized nuclear 3V battery with 50-year lifespan enters mass production
floo@retrolemmy.com 1 month agoYeah, that’s how the battery works.
deegeese@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
Which is why your suggestion of simply recycling copper won’t work. You don’t have copper, you have a radioactive alloy.
floo@retrolemmy.com 1 month ago
Not after 50 or so years. Then it’s just non-radioactive copper.
deegeese@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
That’s not how radioactive half lives work.
Learn about radioactive decay and what half life means.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Half-life
floo@retrolemmy.com 1 month ago
Prove it.
Sas@beehaw.org 1 month ago
A half life of 100 years many that after 100 years half of it is copper while the other half is still nickel 63. It does NOT mean that after half that time all of it will be copper