E ai ki te Mana Pūngao Atomika o te UK, kua angitu ngā kairangahau o te tari me te Whare Wānanga o Bristol ki te hanga i te pākahiko taimana waro-14 tuatahi o te ao. Ka roa te ora o tēnei momo pākahiko hou mō ngā mano tau, ā, e matapaetia ana ka noho hei puna pūngao tino pakari.
I kī a Sarah Clarke, te kaiwhakahaere o te huringa wahie tritium i te UK Atomic Energy Authority, he hangarau hou tēnei e whakamahi ana i ngā taimana horihori hei takai i tētahi nui iti o te waro-14 hei whakarato i te hiko taumata-microwatt tonu i roto i tētahi huarahi haumaru, pumau hoki.
Ka mahi tēnei pākahiko taimana mā te whakamahi i te pirau irahiko o te isotope waro-14 irahiko hei whakaputa i te iti o te kaha hiko. Ko te haurua-ora o te waro-14 e 5,700 tau te roa. Ka mahi te taimana hei anga tiaki mō te waro-14, hei whakarite i te haumaru me te pupuri tonu i tōna kaha whakaputa hiko. He rite tonu tana mahi ki ngā panera rā, engari hei utu mō te whakamahi i ngā matūriki mārama (ngā photon), ka hopu ngā pākahiko taimana i ngā irahiko tere e neke ana mai i te hanganga taimana.
Mō ngā āhuatanga tono, ka taea te whakamahi i tēnei momo pākahiko hou ki ngā taputapu hauora pēnei i ngā tāpiringa kanohi, ngā taputapu whakarongo me ngā taputapu whakatere, ā, ka whakaiti i te hiahia mō te whakakapinga pākahiko me te mamae o ngā tūroro.
Hei tāpiritanga, he pai hoki mō ngā taiao tino kino o te Ao me te wāhi. Hei tauira, ka taea e ēnei pākahiko te whakakaha i ngā taputapu pēnei i ngā tohu auau reo irirangi hohe (RF), e whakamahia ana hei whai me te tautuhi i ngā mea pēnei i te waka mokowhiti, i ngā utauta rānei. E kiia ana ka taea e ngā pākahiko taimana waro-14 te mahi mō ngā tekau tau me te kore e whakakapia, ka waiho hei kōwhiringa whai hua mō ngā misioni wāhi mokowhiti me ngā tono whenua mamao ki te kore e taea te whakakapi pākahiko tuku iho.