Nuclear waste could be recycled for diamond battery power

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The C in those graphite blocks is only going to have a small fraction of C14. Are they going to enrich it in a calutron or is there a better way to enrich C?

Interesting question. I'm not sure what they will do, but there are two interesting links:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isotope_separation#Gravity

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioactive_tracer#Carbon

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