EE Journal :: A government program wanted to make the perfect artificial heart—with radioactive decay http://t.co/9M1AzpKbVn
March 25, 2013
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Back to Fresh Bytes Main by Larra Morris March 22, 2013 at 12:49 PM The idea of putting a decaying radioactive isotope inside your chest might make you a little uneasy-and rightly so. But in 1967, the National Heart Institute and the Atomic Energy Agency set out to make it happen in the form of a plutonium-238-powered atomic heart.