CURRENT AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -A “Hall of Nuclear Energy” was opened in in Delhi to educate the students and the general public about the applications of nuclear energy. Use of nuclear energy in diverse fields such as medicine, especially cancer care.

Detailed explanation-2: -Ministerial Nuclear Power Conference 2022 The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) organized fifth International Ministerial Conference on Nuclear Power in the 21st Century in Washington DC, United States of America, from 26 to 28 October 2022.

Detailed explanation-3: -India’s first nuclear power station is located at Tarapur, near Bombay. It consisted of two boiling-water reactors (BWR), each of about 200 MWe capacity, which went into operation in 1969.

Detailed explanation-4: -Homi J. Bhabha, the father of Indian Nuclear programme, in early fifties. Subsequently “Apsara”, the first research reactor in Asia became operational in Trombay campus of Bhabha Atomic Research Centre in August 1956.

Detailed explanation-5: -The first nuclear power reactors built in India were two BWRs at Tarapur, constructed by GE as turnkey projects through Indo-US cooperation.