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Sunday, September 3, 2017
Nuclear Powered QRPp? Tritium Nuclear Batteries and Plutonium Pacemakers
OK QRPers, it is time to explore another power source. Enough of the nails in lemons and all that mess. It is time to go NUCLEAR! Check out the motor in the video above, then look at the video below for more info on how the nuclear battery was made. Who will be the first to QSO with homebrew nuclear power? Or has it happened already?
Mike Rainey -- this seems like the perfect project for you OM.
Oh and by the way, in the course of reading up on this, I learned that we once used PLUTONIUM to power pacemakers. Check it out:
https://www.mdtmag.com/blog/2016/01/medtech-memoirs-plutonium-powered-pacemaker
And no, today is not April 1.
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