Tag: Nuclear Battery
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DARPA Backs Seven Teams in Race to Build a Nuclear Battery That Lasts 30 Years
The effort targets what DARPA program manager Tabitha Dodson identifies as the central obstacle to transportable nuclear power: heat and weight. Fission reactors and radioisotope thermal generators contain enormous energy, but they require heavy, non-transportable hardware to manage the heat they produce. That heat management piece, Dodson said, is always what drags down the dreams…