NUCLEAR POWER ENGINEERING QUIZ

Percentage of heavy water in ordinary water is around

7.54

0.71

32.97

0.015

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Fast breeder Test Reactor (FBTR) is located at

BARC (Trombay)

Kalpakkam (near Madras)

Kota (in Rajasthan)

Tarapur (in Maharashtra)

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Research reactors are normally meant for

Power generation

Producing high neutron flux 10¹²-10¹³ neutrons/cm², sec and studying the effect of neutron bombardment on dif ferent materials

Accelerating the neutrons

None of these

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Isotopes of an element have the same

Electronic configuration

Mass number

Atomic weight

Number of neutrons

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The ratio of volume of an atom to that of its nucleus is

10¹²

10⁸

10⁻⁸

10⁻¹²

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Artificially produced radioactive isotopes are used for

Treatment of certain diseases

Power generation

All of these

Initiating nuclear fission and fusion

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Molten sodium (as a coolant in fast breeder reactor)

Can't attain high temperature at normal pressure

None of these

Is not at all corrosive, even at a higher temperature

Is highly radioactive at elevated temperatures and can cause explosion, when it comes in contact with air or water

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Critical energy should be __________ the neutron binding energy of the atom in order to initiate a nuclear fission.

Less than

Equal to

More than

Either more or less

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Radioactive decay is a __________ change.

Nuclear

None of these

Physical

Chemical

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Heavy water plant is not located at

Tuticorin

Ramagundam

Kota

Talcher

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