Scientists use light-emitting crystals and solar panels to turn the latent energy in nuclear waste into microbatteries.

Researchers may have found a way to create a nuclear waste battery that could theoretically run for decades without needing to recharge.

Nuclear power has long been a reliable energy source, supplying nearly 20% of electricity in the United States. While it does ...

Inspired by this idea, researchers in Ohio have developed a small battery powered by nuclear waste. They exposed scintillator crystals—a material that emits light when it absorbs radiation—to ...

Japan's national nuclear research and development institute has developed what it calls the world's first uranium-based ...

Researchers have found an environmentally safer way to extract the lithium 6 needed to create fuel for nuclear fusion ...

A new study by scientists at Ohio State University (OSU) created a nuclear waste battery by using scintillator crystals—a high-density material that emits light by absorbing gamma radiation, which ...

Scientists have developed an innovative battery that converts energy from radioactive waste into electricity, transforming a hazardous by-product of nuclear power generation into a potential ...

The study, led by scientists at Ohio State University, demonstrates how ambient gamma radiation from nuclear waste can power microelectronics. While the current output is limited to small sensors, ...

Credit: happyphoton via Getty Images Scientists have developed an innovative battery that converts energy from radioactive waste into electricity, transforming a hazardous by-product of nuclear ...