{"id":100290,"date":"2020-08-27T08:46:07","date_gmt":"2020-08-27T08:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=100290"},"modified":"2020-08-27T08:46:08","modified_gmt":"2020-08-27T08:46:08","slug":"barakah-nuclear-power-plant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/barakah-nuclear-power-plant\/","title":{"rendered":"Barakah nuclear power plant"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Question:Barakah nuclear power plant is found in which Arab country?<\/strong><br>(a) Saudi Arabia<br>(b) Iran<br>(c) UAE<br>(d) Qatar<br><strong>Answer:(c)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Context:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The oil-rich United Arab Emirates announced that it has connected its Barakah nuclear power plant to the national grid in a new first for the Arab world.<\/li><li>Facts:<\/li><li>The milestone follows the successful start-up of the plant\u2019s first reactor at the end of last month and launches the UAE on the road to meeting 25% of its electricity needs from nuclear power.<\/li><li>Barakah was built by a consortium led by the Korea Electric Power Corporation at a cost of some $24.4 billion. The plant is on the Gulf coast west of Abu Dhabi<\/li><li>The UAE has substantial oil and gas reserves, but with a power-hungry population of 10 million, it has made huge investments in developing clean alternatives, including solar energy.<\/li><li>Saudi Arabia, the world\u2019s top oil exporter, has said it plans to build up to 16 nuclear reactors, but the project has yet to materialise.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>By: Arpit Mishra<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Link:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/international\/uae-connects-first-arab-nuclear-plant-to-power-grid\/article32396981.ece\">https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/international\/uae-connects-first-arab-nuclear-plant-to-power-grid\/article32396981.ece<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question:Barakah nuclear power plant is found in which Arab country?(a) Saudi Arabia(b) Iran(c) UAE(d) QatarAnswer:(c) Context: The oil-rich United Arab Emirates announced that it has connected its Barakah nuclear power plant to the national grid in a new first for the Arab world. Facts: The milestone follows the successful start-up of the plant\u2019s first reactor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":100291,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1087],"tags":[2520],"class_list":["post-100290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-intne","tag-current-affairs-international-news-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100290"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100292,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100290\/revisions\/100292"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}