>>515774412
>The Chinks just came up with nuclear micro-batteries.
In fairness Tom, they took orphaned American tech, refined it and brought it to market.

>Betacel is considered to be the first commercially successful betavoltaic battery.[1][2][3] It was developed in the early 1970s by Larry C. Olsen at the American corporation McDonnell Douglas, using the radioisotope promethium-147 as the beta-electron source coupled to silicon semiconductor cells. This power source was incorporated in the Betacel-Biotronik heart pacemaker. The device was not widely adopted because of its limited lifespan and doubts over the use of radioactive material.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betacel