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I hope they invent a nuclear battery that can power small brains that can't imagine :D]]>Oct 10th 2009 11:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/10/mizzous-nuclear-battery-to-power-things-smaller-than-your-brain/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/10/mizzous-nuclear-battery-to-power-things-smaller-than-your-brain/Oct 10th 2009 3:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/10/mizzous-nuclear-battery-to-power-things-smaller-than-your-brain/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/10/mizzous-nuclear-battery-to-power-things-smaller-than-your-brain/Oct 10th 2009 12:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/10/mizzous-nuclear-battery-to-power-things-smaller-than-your-brain/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/10/mizzous-nuclear-battery-to-power-things-smaller-than-your-brain/Oct 10th 2009 12:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/10/mizzous-nuclear-battery-to-power-things-smaller-than-your-brain/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/10/mizzous-nuclear-battery-to-power-things-smaller-than-your-brain/
You die a slow and very painful death. But hey, at least your phone won't!]]>Oct 10th 2009 12:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/10/mizzous-nuclear-battery-to-power-things-smaller-than-your-brain/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/10/mizzous-nuclear-battery-to-power-things-smaller-than-your-brain/Oct 10th 2009 3:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/10/mizzous-nuclear-battery-to-power-things-smaller-than-your-brain/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/10/mizzous-nuclear-battery-to-power-things-smaller-than-your-brain/Oct 10th 2009 12:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/10/mizzous-nuclear-battery-to-power-things-smaller-than-your-brain/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/10/mizzous-nuclear-battery-to-power-things-smaller-than-your-brain/Oct 10th 2009 12:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/10/mizzous-nuclear-battery-to-power-things-smaller-than-your-brain/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/10/mizzous-nuclear-battery-to-power-things-smaller-than-your-brain/
i.e., 3 orders of magnitude = 10^3

Pretty amazing tech, I just wonder how long til it reaches consumers. Y'all should know by not that a nuclear battery would be plenty safe, the word nuclear doesn't imply nuclear holocost. especially since these are so small.]]>Oct 10th 2009 12:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/10/mizzous-nuclear-battery-to-power-things-smaller-than-your-brain/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/10/mizzous-nuclear-battery-to-power-things-smaller-than-your-brain/Oct 10th 2009 12:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/10/mizzous-nuclear-battery-to-power-things-smaller-than-your-brain/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/10/mizzous-nuclear-battery-to-power-things-smaller-than-your-brain/Oct 10th 2009 2:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/10/mizzous-nuclear-battery-to-power-things-smaller-than-your-brain/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/10/mizzous-nuclear-battery-to-power-things-smaller-than-your-brain/
...hours.

...I'd put a nuclear battery in my pocket for two million hours of battery life.]]>Oct 10th 2009 8:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/10/mizzous-nuclear-battery-to-power-things-smaller-than-your-brain/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/10/mizzous-nuclear-battery-to-power-things-smaller-than-your-brain/
This doesn't have to be uranium, plutonium or thorium. It can be a non-fissionable radioisotope, like those used in medicine. For the nut heads worried about radioactivity in your home, I suggest you throw out all your smoke detectors. They all use a small amount of radioactive americium.

The two major concerns I can see here are shelf life and power. You can keep an Alkaline battery without use for years. This, it doesn't matter if you use it or not, it's battery life is going to be dropping. Also, it has limits on it's power output, more so then other types of batteries.
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This tech must be different. Mizzou has their own research reactor, but I don't think that they're creating Plutonium-238 for this. It's apparently a very expensive and time consuming process.

That said, these aren't going to be batteries we'll be able to pick up at the local 7-11, so who knows what they'll cost?]]>Oct 10th 2009 1:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/10/mizzous-nuclear-battery-to-power-things-smaller-than-your-brain/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/10/mizzous-nuclear-battery-to-power-things-smaller-than-your-brain/Oct 10th 2009 2:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/10/mizzous-nuclear-battery-to-power-things-smaller-than-your-brain/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/10/mizzous-nuclear-battery-to-power-things-smaller-than-your-brain/Oct 10th 2009 4:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/10/mizzous-nuclear-battery-to-power-things-smaller-than-your-brain/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/10/mizzous-nuclear-battery-to-power-things-smaller-than-your-brain/Oct 10th 2009 5:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/10/mizzous-nuclear-battery-to-power-things-smaller-than-your-brain/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/10/mizzous-nuclear-battery-to-power-things-smaller-than-your-brain/I think this will be a good thing, if it comes out....
About the Cancer Persons i can only say: we live because of SUN(Big nuclear thing)]]>Oct 11th 2009 9:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/10/mizzous-nuclear-battery-to-power-things-smaller-than-your-brain/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/10/mizzous-nuclear-battery-to-power-things-smaller-than-your-brain/Oct 12th 2009 11:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/10/mizzous-nuclear-battery-to-power-things-smaller-than-your-brain/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/10/mizzous-nuclear-battery-to-power-things-smaller-than-your-brain/Oct 10th 2009 12:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/10/mizzous-nuclear-battery-to-power-things-smaller-than-your-brain/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/10/mizzous-nuclear-battery-to-power-things-smaller-than-your-brain/Oct 10th 2009 12:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/10/mizzous-nuclear-battery-to-power-things-smaller-than-your-brain/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/10/mizzous-nuclear-battery-to-power-things-smaller-than-your-brain/but i still fully doubt about the safety of using nuclear batteries]]>Oct 10th 2009 12:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/10/mizzous-nuclear-battery-to-power-things-smaller-than-your-brain/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/10/mizzous-nuclear-battery-to-power-things-smaller-than-your-brain/Oct 10th 2009 1:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/10/mizzous-nuclear-battery-to-power-things-smaller-than-your-brain/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/10/mizzous-nuclear-battery-to-power-things-smaller-than-your-brain/
"Fluffy Bunnies?" "Dilithium Crystals?" "iOrganic Cells?"]]>Oct 10th 2009 2:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/10/mizzous-nuclear-battery-to-power-things-smaller-than-your-brain/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/10/mizzous-nuclear-battery-to-power-things-smaller-than-your-brain/
Or nucular cells?]]>Oct 10th 2009 2:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/10/mizzous-nuclear-battery-to-power-things-smaller-than-your-brain/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/10/mizzous-nuclear-battery-to-power-things-smaller-than-your-brain/Oct 10th 2009 7:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/10/mizzous-nuclear-battery-to-power-things-smaller-than-your-brain/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/10/mizzous-nuclear-battery-to-power-things-smaller-than-your-brain/Oct 10th 2009 12:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/10/mizzous-nuclear-battery-to-power-things-smaller-than-your-brain/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/10/mizzous-nuclear-battery-to-power-things-smaller-than-your-brain/Oct 10th 2009 12:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/10/mizzous-nuclear-battery-to-power-things-smaller-than-your-brain/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/10/mizzous-nuclear-battery-to-power-things-smaller-than-your-brain/Oct 10th 2009 2:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/10/mizzous-nuclear-battery-to-power-things-smaller-than-your-brain/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/10/mizzous-nuclear-battery-to-power-things-smaller-than-your-brain/Oct 10th 2009 3:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/10/mizzous-nuclear-battery-to-power-things-smaller-than-your-brain/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/10/mizzous-nuclear-battery-to-power-things-smaller-than-your-brain/Oct 10th 2009 3:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/10/mizzous-nuclear-battery-to-power-things-smaller-than-your-brain/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/10/mizzous-nuclear-battery-to-power-things-smaller-than-your-brain/]]>Oct 12th 2009 12:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/10/mizzous-nuclear-battery-to-power-things-smaller-than-your-brain/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/10/mizzous-nuclear-battery-to-power-things-smaller-than-your-brain/Oct 10th 2009 12:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/10/mizzous-nuclear-battery-to-power-things-smaller-than-your-brain/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/10/mizzous-nuclear-battery-to-power-things-smaller-than-your-brain/Oct 10th 2009 1:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/10/mizzous-nuclear-battery-to-power-things-smaller-than-your-brain/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/10/mizzous-nuclear-battery-to-power-things-smaller-than-your-brain/
Now where have I heard that before?....]]>Oct 10th 2009 1:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/10/mizzous-nuclear-battery-to-power-things-smaller-than-your-brain/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/10/mizzous-nuclear-battery-to-power-things-smaller-than-your-brain/Oct 10th 2009 1:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/10/mizzous-nuclear-battery-to-power-things-smaller-than-your-brain/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/10/mizzous-nuclear-battery-to-power-things-smaller-than-your-brain/Oct 10th 2009 2:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/10/mizzous-nuclear-battery-to-power-things-smaller-than-your-brain/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/10/mizzous-nuclear-battery-to-power-things-smaller-than-your-brain/Oct 10th 2009 1:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/10/mizzous-nuclear-battery-to-power-things-smaller-than-your-brain/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/10/mizzous-nuclear-battery-to-power-things-smaller-than-your-brain/Oct 10th 2009 3:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/10/mizzous-nuclear-battery-to-power-things-smaller-than-your-brain/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/10/mizzous-nuclear-battery-to-power-things-smaller-than-your-brain/Oct 11th 2009 9:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/10/mizzous-nuclear-battery-to-power-things-smaller-than-your-brain/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/10/mizzous-nuclear-battery-to-power-things-smaller-than-your-brain/]]>Oct 10th 2009 1:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/10/mizzous-nuclear-battery-to-power-things-smaller-than-your-brain/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/10/mizzous-nuclear-battery-to-power-things-smaller-than-your-brain/Oct 10th 2009 1:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/10/mizzous-nuclear-battery-to-power-things-smaller-than-your-brain/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/10/mizzous-nuclear-battery-to-power-things-smaller-than-your-brain/Oct 10th 2009 1:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/10/mizzous-nuclear-battery-to-power-things-smaller-than-your-brain/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/10/mizzous-nuclear-battery-to-power-things-smaller-than-your-brain/Oct 10th 2009 1:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/10/mizzous-nuclear-battery-to-power-things-smaller-than-your-brain/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/10/mizzous-nuclear-battery-to-power-things-smaller-than-your-brain/Oct 10th 2009 2:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/10/mizzous-nuclear-battery-to-power-things-smaller-than-your-brain/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/10/mizzous-nuclear-battery-to-power-things-smaller-than-your-brain/nostomo said: "Looking forward to this product become a reality as soon as possible"
jimminy replied: "Shut the f^ck off! This is not a Chinese website"

Dang! i wish I could wire my brain into Google translate...]]>Oct 10th 2009 2:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/10/mizzous-nuclear-battery-to-power-things-smaller-than-your-brain/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/10/mizzous-nuclear-battery-to-power-things-smaller-than-your-brain/Oct 10th 2009 2:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/10/mizzous-nuclear-battery-to-power-things-smaller-than-your-brain/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/10/mizzous-nuclear-battery-to-power-things-smaller-than-your-brain/你们都是同性恋！叽叽喳喳的胜利！]]>Oct 10th 2009 2:35PM