NDB (Nano Diamond Battery), a US-based startup claims to have produced a diamond nuclear-powered battery that will last up to 28,000 years.
NDB, which stands for Nano Diamond Battery, is a “high-power diamond-based alpha, beta, and neutron voltaic battery” that its research scientist founders say can provide devices with “life-long and renewable energy.”
Using waste graphite from a graphite-cooled nuclear reactor, scientists proposed the first known diamond nuclear voltaic (DNV) battery design. The radioactively contaminated graphite could last thousands of years, with heat-conducting diamonds taking the energy away from it and turning it to electricity along the way.
The NDB definition is similar, but with several layers of diamond and nuclear waste panels to equal higher total energy levels.
In response to a question about the battery, a DNP spokesperson stated:
“A coating of poly-crystalline diamond is applied to the DNV stacks and the source, which is known for being the most thermally conductive material, as well as having the ability to absorb radiation inside the unit and being the toughest material, 12 times tougher than stainless steel. As a result, our commodity is highly durable and tamperproof.”
