CURRENT AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -The first nuclear power reactors built in India were two BWRs at Tarapur, constructed by GE as turnkey projects through Indo-US cooperation.

Detailed explanation-2: -Subsequently “Apsara”, the first research reactor in Asia became operational in Trombay campus of Bhabha Atomic Research Centre in August 1956. After providing more than five decades of dedicated service to the researchers, the reactor was shut down in 2009.

Detailed explanation-3: -ARE THERE UNDERGROUND LEAKS? Since the disaster, contaminated cooling water has constantly escaped from the damaged primary containment vessels into the reactor building basements, where it mixes with groundwater that seeps in.

Detailed explanation-4: -APSARA achieved criticality on August 4, 1956 and was the first research reactor in Asia to achieve criticality. It was a pool type reactor of 1 MW power with highly enriched uranium as fuel (4.5 kg) in the form of plates.