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  • Question
  • Which of the following is artificially produced as it does not occur in nature?


  • Options
  • A. Uranium-235
  • B. Uranium-233
  • C. Plutonium-239
  • D. Both (b) and (c)

  • Correct Answer
  • Both (b) and (c) 


  • Nuclear Power Engineering problems


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    • 1. Out of the followingplaces, a nuclear power plant is not located at

    • Options
    • A. Talcher (Orissa)
    • B. Kaiga (Karnataka)
    • C. Rawatbhata (Rajsthan)
    • D. Kalpakkam (Tamilnadu)
    • Discuss
    • 2. The decrease in the atomic number is not observed in case of

    • Options
    • A. electron capture
    • B. ?-emission
    • C. ?-emission
    • D. positron emission
    • Discuss
    • 3. Gas cooling as compared to water cooling of nuclear reactors

    • Options
    • A. can not attain a high temperature.
    • B. is more efficient as gas has a higher specific heat.
    • C. can produce only saturated steam for feeding to power turbine.
    • D. none of these.
    • Discuss
    • 4. The atomic number of a radioactive element is not changed, when it emits __________ rays.

    • Options
    • A. ?
    • B. ?
    • C. ?
    • D. ? & ?
    • Discuss
    • 5. Spent fuel from the nuclear thermal reactor contains

    • Options
    • A. fission products
    • B. plutonium
    • C. unused fuel
    • D. all (a), (b) & (c)
    • Discuss
    • 6. In a nuclear explosion, the energy is released primarily in the form of __________ energy-

    • Options
    • A. potential
    • B. thermal
    • C. kinetic
    • D. electrical
    • Discuss
    • 7. Fast breeder reactors do not

    • Options
    • A. use Th-232 as fissile fuel.
    • B. convert fertile material to fissile material.
    • C. use fast neutrons for fission.
    • D. use molten sodium as coolant.
    • Discuss
    • 8. The atomic number of an element is equal to the number of __________ present in its atom.

    • Options
    • A. neutrons
    • B. electrons
    • C. protons
    • D. either (b) or (c)
    • Discuss
    • 9. Heat is generated in a nuclear reactor (thermal) by

    • Options
    • A. combustion of a nuclear fuel e.g. uranium.
    • B. fusion of atoms of uranium.
    • C. absorption of neutrons in uranium atoms.
    • D. fission of U-235 by neutrons.
    • Discuss
    • 10. The amount of a radioisotope remaining undecayed after a time equal to four times its half life, will be __________ percent.

    • Options
    • A. 3.125
    • B. 6.25
    • C. 12.50
    • D. 25
    • Discuss


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