NUCLEAR POWER ENGINEERING QUIZ

The most commonly used nuclear fuel in boiling water reactor is

Enriched uranium

Monazite sand

Natural uranium

Plutonium

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Critical mass is the minimum mass of nuclear fissile material required for the

None of these

Economic power generation

Sustainment of chain reaction

Power generation on commercial scale

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Which is the most commonly used molten metal for cooling of nuclear reactors?

Calcium

Mercury

Sodium

Zinc

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Which of the following gases has very high neutron capture cross-section, making it unsuitable as a coolant in nuclear reactor?

N₂

H₂

He

CO₂

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Radioactivity of an isotope is expressed in

Ergs

MeV

Curie

Barn

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Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) located at Trombay (near Bombay) has

Five operating research reactors (namely Apsara, Cirus Zerelina, Purnima and Dhurva)

A 420 MW nuclear power plant

All of these

A very large capacity (100 tons/yr) heavy water plant

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Heavy water plant is not located at

Ramagundam

Tuticorin

Kota

Talcher

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Which of the following nuclear materials is fissile?

None of these

Plutonium⁻²39

Uranium⁻²38

Thorium⁻²32

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Function of control rod in a nuclear reactor is to control

Pressure

Fuel consumption

Absorption of neutrons

Temperature

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Velocity of the thermal neutron (< 0.025 eV) used for fission of U-235 is around __________ m/sec.

2200

3 x 10¹¹

9 x 10²¹

1

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