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Since it's already in use for decades with pacemakers i don't think that the radiation is that hard to stop, no need for inches of lead.
And i could have said that it's not a completely novel technology, i used "commercial" in the sense that it's apparently destined for the general public instead of specialised fields, the wiki article says that :
![](https://lemmygrad.ml/pictrs/image/417a7319-51fb-44da-9ac9-fbc8a5999837.jpeg)
We'll have to see the price before finding such batteries in the supermarket though.
As for reliability, the articles say that another advantage is that it doesn't ignite nor explode, but i suppose that something could happen if you drill through it.
See, pacemakers, spaceships, and research installations are fairly understandable though, no one is going to be taking out their own pace maker, and science endeavors are extremely regulated. However, you just know some idiot is going to build a dirty bomb with these if given the chance.
Also, using the computer programming standard. Never underestimate the end user. Some idiot will try to drill through it or “stress test” a battery like this.
Plus those batteries cost tens of thousands if not millions of dollars depending on size. We have to definitely wait to see the cost.
Oh yeah, i wouldn't advise anyone to take this breakthrough as a promise for the future(, as someone who used to read futurism.com i'm well aware of that).
But i could counter your objections if you're interested :
You'd probably have to drill through more than a few of them to have enough radioactivity leaking, at this point the number of people dying because of their stress testing would probably be equivalent to those dying because of chemical batteries explosion. It'd be up to the authorities to estimate the risks correctly and, as you said, we'll see how much a battery made to last 50 years will cost.