They said it can be used in a car but if the car explodes will it be a nuclear explosion lol?
Humanity isn’t ready for this level of responsibility lol
Lol that’s funny.
I don’t understand if it is radioactive substance, won’t it give us cancer. Like x rays or something
That’s what I was thinking. It seems too dangerous
Love the idea until you add the human element into the formula.
That’s not consumer safe
That should be totally safe. It would take some serious effort to break through all that diamond. Should withstand the impact from car crashes and such just fine. We can actually also make small, modular nuclear reactors using this technology that could power a rural town for 50 years. That could be huge in places like Alaska.
I didn’t think of it like that! You may be onto something!
Short answer, no. At most, it would leak small amounts of radiation. But to create a nuclear explosion you need to artifically slow down the atoms before splitting them.
It would save on pacemaker surgeries!
You are alarmingly well-versed. Sniff sniff. Are you an Energy Department spy? 
You’re not usually onto me this fast. Am I starting to slip with age?
Are we really so irrationally scared of nuclear power now that we wouldn’t even want a tiny battery with stable nuclear waste wrapped in ■■■■■■■diamond that emits less radiation than the hand you’re using to hold it?
Human anxiety is so annoying sometimes. Nuclear power is massively safer than all non-renewable energy types. And this sounds about as safe as energy could become.
You probably get more dangerous radiation off of your smart phone. Just saying.
If it’s properly isolated it’s pretty safe. We use radiation for medicine. Used properly and safely it does it’s job. I think reusing nuclear waste is great…trouble is we won’t use enough of it and it’s the left over waste that is the problem…using it up is good!
Ahh,you caught me! I’m secretly a plant for Big Nuclear. The past 6 years of visiting this site were just to gain your trust so I could wait until someone posted something anti-nuclear and then disagree.
You’ve heard of the banana equivalent dose? I fairly glow in the dark.
Guys guys you’re missing the point.
Battery powered… runs for 28,000 years.
For me it sounds like certainty.
So either they’ve found a 28 millennia old battery that’s still active, or time travel has been invented!
We’re onto something big even huge!
I love the progress but wish it weren’t nuclear waste we were talking about here.
Would you rather it just sits in pools that were made to last 30 years for the next 40 millennia? We can either recycle it (which is totally safe and creates a new waste product that only takes 400 years to break down) or we can just let it stay active and unused.
Besides which, this isn’t talking about depleted uranium fuel. It is talking about the graphite used to absorb radiation. The level of radioactivity is technically nuclear waste the same way a tomato is technically a fruit. Like it fits the definition, but it isn’t what you think of when you think of nuclear waste.