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About the project

Nuclear batteries are the batteries which work with nuclear fuel. They generally lasts longer because the half life of a radio active metal is more. So, they continuously emit radiation and this radiation is converted into electrical energy. The conversion of radiated energy to electrical energy is done using p-type and n-type semiconductors. The average estimated life of these nuclear batteries is about 500 years as the half-life of both radio active isotopes is more than 500 years.Here the americium-241 emits alpha rays which ionizes atoms in p-type semiconductor and carbon-14 emits beta rays which ionizes ntype semiconductor and hence potential is produced in between those two semiconductors gives us electrical energy.