Updated Tue, November 29th 2016 at 07:58 GMT +3The batteries are nuclear powered [PHOTO: COURTESY]British boffins have developed NUCLEAR-powered batteries - but they could take more than 5,000 YEARS to reach just half power. This will enable it to generate power for many thousands of years - potentially soling the problem of batteries ever running out. The team have demonstrated a prototype ‘diamond battery’ using Nickel-63 as the radiation source. Extracted carbon-14 is then incorporated into a diamond to produce a nuclear-powered battery. “This would make it dangerous to ingest or touch with your naked skin, but safely held within diamond, no short-range radiation can escape.

Source: Standard Digital November 29, 2016 05:02 UTC