摘要 |
<p>A light weight nuclide battery, being supercompact, relatively low cost, and relatively low maintenance. Dust particles are made of radioactive isotopes where very little if any gamma radiation is emitted. Nuclides from low cost radioactive waste of nuclear power reactors are used. The dust particles have small diameters so beta decay leaves nearly without loss. Surrounding weakly ionized plasma has gases with excimer lines and surrounding walls contain photovoltaic layers with wide forbidden zones so much of the energy of beta electrons are converted into electric energy. Power density is increased by increasing the battery pressure above atmospheric pressure.</p> |