Named "Zhulong" after a mythical creature symbolizing light in Chinese classic Shan Hai Jing, this nuclear battery uses energy from the decay of high-specific-activity C-14, a radioactive isotope with ...

Their device — a carbon-14 diamond battery — is a strange fusion of radioactive decay, synthetic diamonds, and plasma chemistry. The result is a power source that could outlive generations of ...

Named "Zhulong" after a mythical creature symbolizing light in Chinese classic Shan Hai Jing, this nuclear battery uses energy from the decay of high-specific-activity C-14, a radioactive isotope ...

Carbon-14 Used to date once-living materials. Every living organism contains the radioisotope carbon-14. Carbon-14 is formed when neutrons from cosmic radiation collide with nitrogen atoms in our ...

In 1940 Martin Kamen discovered radioactive carbon-14 (an isotope of carbon) and found that it had a half-life of about 5,700 years. Scientists had also found that some of the nitrogen in the ...

For example, carbon-14 decays to nitrogen-14 when it emits beta radiation. As this breakdown occurs, the activity of any radioactive source becomes less. This activity is measured in becquerels.

Martin Kamen, the scientist who co-discovered the radioactive isotope carbon-14, died on 31 August at his home in Santa Barbara, California. He was 89 years old. Kamen discovered carbon-14 in 1940 in ...

Successfully tested, the Chinese nuclear battery can change the energy industry, boosting advances on the Internet of Things ...

The Company has commenced commercial production of enriched Carbon-14 at its first Aerodynamic Separation Process (ASP) enrichment facility. - The Company expects to ship commercial product around the ...