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There was just an article about a whole array of “nuclear batteries” using all sorts of decent chemistry: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42118306 https://
by wffurr 2y ago
There was just an article about a whole array of “nuclear batteries” using all sorts of decent chemistry: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42118306 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42118306
Are any of those candidates or are they just too small or with too poor a mass ratio compared to plutonium RTGs?
- jordanb 2y agoMaybe. I don't know. I'd point out that tritium is a gas, so it may be hard to contain for long periods of time especially in space.