International Space Station to get 787-style batteries

Found on New Scientist on Thursday, 18 April 2013
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The batteries are similar to those used on Boeing's 787 Dreamliner aircraft, all 50 of which have been taken out of commercial service worldwide since January following battery fires on two planes.

Boeing says overheating in one cell vented heat to neighbouring cells and caused them to overheat also, an effect known as thermal runaway. One battery caught fire in a jet on the ground at Boston Logan airport in the US while another melted down in flight, causing an emergency landing and evacuation in Japan.

I hope they deploy the batteries on the outside of the Space Station, where it's all cold and the lack of oxygen makes it harder for them to go down in flames.