Sentences with phrase «nuclear battery»

Aluminum is currently used in not only research reactor components but also nuclear batteries and spacecraft, and it has been proposed as material for storage containers for nuclear waste.

In 1961, he returned to industry as Manager of Nuclear R&D for Martin Marietta, where he participated in the development of nuclear batteries for terrestrial and space applications and in the construction and operation of small nuclear power reactors for remote locations (Wyoming and Antarctica).

Such nuclear batteries could in principle be sealed, placed in the ground, and run for a decade before being swapped out for an entirely new modular reactor.

Present and past spacecraft sub-critical nuclear batteries produce far too little power.

b) piezoelectric nuclear batteries: tiny amounts of radioactive isotopes poised under nanotech piezo armatures is used to generate electricity from the piezo vibrations generated by alpha radiation striking the arm.

In addition, the reactor — in essence, a nuclear battery because it is largely self - contained — is buried, rendering it «immune from external events like tornadoes, hurricanes or tsunamis.»

Essentially a nuclear battery, an MMRTG can provide about 110 watts of electrical power to a spacecraft and its science instruments at the beginning of a mission.

Achilles» heel: The nuclear batteries that they run on will eventually deplete — probably within the next 10 years.

Given 5 - 10 years of dev and some nuclear batteries / currently unknown hi - drain hi - capacity power source this could become feasible, Spartan - 001 here we come:).