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		kllrnohj on Jan 24, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Nuclear waste recycled into diamond batteries It's not heat-based. It's using betavoltaic cells, which is a non-thermal conversion process. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diamond_battery https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betavoltaic_device

Dylan16807 on Jan 24, 2020 [–]

Oh, okay. I was just going on the article, and "absorbs any radiation and makes them safe" is a really bad way to explain that. It makes it sound like pure containment, not that it's also converting it to electricity.

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