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Date: Wednesday 15th November
Time: 18:30
Location: Pugsley Lecture Theatre, Queen’s School of Engineering, University of Bristol, BS8 1TR
Speaker: Professor Tom Scott 
Description
Could your phone battery last 5730 years?
A team of physicists and chemists from the University of Bristol have developed a new technology that uses nuclear waste to generate electricity in a nuclear-powered diamond battery. The development could solve some of the problems of nuclear waste, clean electricity generation and battery life.
In this talk organised by the South West Nuclear Hub in conjunction with the Nuclear Institute, Professor Tom Scott will explain how the diamond battery technology has been developed and explore some of its potential applications.
Read more from the original press release here: http://www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2016/november/diamond-power.html
Refreshments will be provided from 18:00.
Attendance is free but please register on the Eventbrite page here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/nuclear-seminar-series-diamonds-are-forever-tickets-38233569636
Event poster: 2017 11 15_NI_Diamond Batteries
If you cannot attend the lecture in person it will be livestreamed on the Hub website.
In November 2016 Professor Tom Scott, Co-Director of the South West Nuclear Hub presented diamond battery technology at the Cabot Institute Annual Lecture. This innovation was developed by a team of physicists and chemists from the University of Bristol. They were able to grow a man-made diamond that, when placed in a radioactive field, generates a […]
