Nuclear Powered Handtools

[coliver988]

While an April Fool's joke, Traveller tech could do something like this at a high enough TL. https://www.protoolreviews.com/milwaukee-oppendriver-nuclear-powered-drill/

T5 does have fusion batteries so it could be a thing.

 

[Spinward Flow]

For "low power" applications (such as hand tools), once battery technology reaches a high enough energy density, reaching for miniaturized (active) nuclear power systems for such "low power" applications is kind of self defeating if you're talking fission/fusion/anti-matter sourcing.

Nuclear batteries that run off radioactive decay of nuclear waste products, however ...