Questions on Atomic Energy

 QUESTIONS ON ATOMIC ENERGY

                          Compiled by : PRATURI POTAYYA SARMA


1) Where is Jaduguda ?

a) Jarkhand    b) Uttar Pradesh   c) West Bengal   d) Orissa


2) Who  discovered Natural Radioactivity ? 

a) Henry Bequerrel  b) madam Curie  c) Albert Einstein  d) None of these


3) What is Yellow Cake?

a) Magnesium Diuranate   b) Gold    c) Copper   d) Brass


4) Where  PFBR ( Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor) is being constructed ?

a) Kalpakkam  b) Tarapur  c) Narora   d) Rawatbhatta


5) Kamini reactor is in Kalpakkam.  Kalpakkam is in which state ?

a) Andhra Pradesh  b ) Tamilnadu  c) Karnataka  d) Kerala


6) Enriched Uranium is used as fuel in which reactors ?

a) Tarapur Atomic Power Station – 1 & 2

b) Narora Atomic Power Station

c) Rajasthan Atomic Power Station

d) None of these


7)With  Fusion reaction, energy is released in Sun and Stars.   For this reaction, which element/atoms are required ?

a) Hydrogen   b) Oxygen   c) Chlorine  d) Nitrogen


8) Heavy Water Plant in Andhra Pradesh is located at ?

a) Manuguru  b) Nalgonda  c) Visakhapatnam  d) Cuddapah


9) Recently Uranium deposits are located in which place of Andhra Pradesh ?

a) Peddagattu-Lambapur  b) Koppunuru  c) Thummalapalli, Rchakuntanooru

d) All the above


10) Who is the father of India’s Atomic Energy Research Programme ?

a) Dr.Homi Jahangir Bhabha 

b) Dr.Kasturi Rangan

c) Dr.Vikram Sarabhai

d) None of these


11) Abundant Thorium deposits are found where ?

a) Kerala Beach Sands  b) Kolkata   c) Jaduguda    d) Kota,Rajasthan


12) Heavy Water is used as ‘moderator’ in which type of the nuclear power reactors ?

a) Pressurised Heavy Water Reactors   b) Light Water Reactors

c) Boiling Water Reactors  d) Fast Breeder Test Reactors





13) Expand the following abbreviations . which of the following is correct ?

a) NPCIL : Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd.

b) UCIL : Uranium Corporation of India Ltd.

c) IREL : Indian Rare Earths Ltd.

d) All the above


14) Bhabha Atomic Research Centre is in _______________

a) Mumbai    b) Ahmedabad    c) Bhubaneswar  d) Indore


15) India conducted first atom bomb test in which place of India in 1974 ?

a) Pokhran, Rajasthan    b) Gauribidanur    c) Gulmarg   d) Kudamkulam


16)  India and USA signed Civil Nuclear Co-operation agreement .   Popularly it is known as______.

a) 123 Agreement    b) Friendship Agreement

c) Diplomatic agreement   d) Trade agreement


17) One of the proposed nuclear power projects  will be coming up in  Jaitapur.  Jaitapur  is in which State of India ?

a) Kerala   b) West Bengal  c) Maharashtra   d) Rajasthan


18) For Kudamkulam Power Project, Russia is supplying which type of nuclear power reactors ?


a) VVER-1000 (Voda Voda Energo Reactor-1000)     b) PHWR

c) PFBR         d) None of these


19) International Atomic Energy Agency headquarters is in which city ?

a) Vienna, Austria

b) Geneva

c) Paris

d) New York


20) Pressurised Water Reactor  is the most common type of light water reactor (LWR).   It uses which type of water at very high pressure in a primary circuit and steam is formed in a secondary circuit. 

a) Ordinary water or light water     b) Heavy Water

c) Tritium        d) None of these



21) Uranium is the basic fuel of nuclear energy.    Which Uranium isotope is best suitable for fission reaction in the nuclear reactors, which use slow (thermal) neutrons ?

a) Uranium-235    b) Uranium -232    c) Uranium- 238    d) None of these


22) One megawatt (MW) is is equivalent to how many units of power ?

a) 10,00,000 watts     b) 1,00,000 watts   

c) 10,000 watts         d) None of these

23) Neutron is an uncharged elementary particle found in the nucleus of every atom except ______ 

a) Hydrogen    b) Oxygen   c) Helium   d) Chlorine


24) Uranium in which the proportion of U-235 has been increased above the natural 0.7% is called as  ______________ .

a) Enriched Uranium    b) Thorium      c) Radium

d) None of these

25) National Technology Day is celebrated on __________ .

a) May 11     b) February 28

c) May 1         d) August 29


Key : 

 Question Number  - Answer


1-a

6-a

11-a

16-a

21-a

2-a

7-a

12 – a

17-c

22-a

3-a

8-a

13-d

18-a

23-a

4-a

9-d

14-a

19-a

24-a

5-b

10-a

15-a

20-a

25-a


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