Power
SoftBank to invest up to $100 bn in India’s solar power sector
15 Jun 2018
SoftBank had in 2015 announced a $20-billion joint venture with Bharti Enterprises and Taiwan’s Foxcon for solar projects in India and in April this year teamed up with China's GCL System Integration Technology Co Ltd for a $930 million Indian solar energy venture
Widespread uranium contamination found in India's groundwater
09 Jun 2018
A new study has found widespread uranium contamination in groundwater from aquifers in 16 Indian states — human factors such as groundwater-table decline and nitrate pollution may be exacerbating the problem, reveals a new study
Prototype nuclear battery packs 10 times more power
02 Jun 2018
The new battery prototype packs about 3,300 milliwatt-hours of energy per gram, which is more than in any other nuclear battery based on nickel-63, and 10 times more than the specific energy of commercial chemical cells
