{"id":86295,"date":"2019-11-19T09:13:02","date_gmt":"2019-11-19T09:13:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=86295"},"modified":"2019-11-19T09:13:49","modified_gmt":"2019-11-19T09:13:49","slug":"11th-nuclear-energy-conclave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/11th-nuclear-energy-conclave\/","title":{"rendered":"11th Nuclear Energy Conclave"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Question: Consider the following statement regarding 11th Nuclear Energy Conclave 2019?<br> (1) This conclave was held in New Delhi.<br> (2) The theme of the Conclave was: Economics of Nuclear Power- Innovation towards Safer &amp; Cost Effective Technologies.<br> From the above, correct statement\/s is\/are:<br> (a) Only (1)<br> (b) Only (2)<br> (c) Both (1) and (2)<br> (d) None of the above<br> Answer: (c)<br> Related facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The 11th Nuclear Energy Conclave, organized by the India Energy Forum, was held in New Delhi on 18th October, 2019.<\/li><li>The theme of the Conclave was: Economics of Nuclear Power- Innovation towards Safer &amp; Cost Effective Technologies.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Important Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The Minister of State for Atomic Energy highlighted some steps taken by the Government with respect to nuclear energy:<\/li><li>Earlier the Atomic power plants were restricted in Southern India, now the Government is setting up the nuclear plants in other parts of the country.<\/li><li>A nuclear plant is coming up in the Gorakhpur of Haryana.<\/li><li>A Hall of Nuclear Energy was opened in Pragati Maidan, Delhi to educate the students and the general public about the applications of nuclear energy.<\/li><li>Use of nuclear energy in diverse fields such as medicine, especially cancer care.<\/li><li>Other steps highlighted include early movement on Fast Breeder Reactors (FBR) deployment and early deployment of indigenous Light Water Reactors (LWRs).<\/li><li>Light-water reactors (LWRs) are power reactors that are cooled and moderated with ordinary water. There are two basic types: the Pressurized-Water Reactor (PWR) and the Boiling-Water Reactor (BWR).<\/li><li>PWR is a power reactor in which the heat is dissipated from the core using highly pressurized water (about 160 bar) to achieve a high temperature and avoid boiling within the core. <\/li><li>BWR is a nuclear reactor with water as a coolant and as a moderator, boiling in the core. The resulting steam is generally used directly to drive a turbine.<\/li><li>It was underlined that owing to the waiver of the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) to India in 2008, the nuclear programme now has much less constraints.<\/li><li>Access to the imported uranium can accelerate the nuclear program size as well as large scale thorium deployment<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Links:<br><a href=\"http:\/\/pibarchive.nic.in\/newsite\/erelease.aspx?relid=193863\">http:\/\/pibarchive.nic.in\/newsite\/erelease.aspx?relid=193863<\/a><br><a href=\"http:\/\/indiaenergyforum.org\/11th-nuclear-conclave\/doc\/Nuclear%20Brochure.pdf\">http:\/\/indiaenergyforum.org\/11th-nuclear-conclave\/doc\/Nuclear%20Brochure.pdf<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.drishtiias.com\/daily-updates\/daily-news-analysis\/nuclear-energy-conclave\">https:\/\/www.drishtiias.com\/daily-updates\/daily-news-analysis\/nuclear-energy-conclave<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: Consider the following statement regarding 11th Nuclear Energy Conclave 2019? (1) This conclave was held in New Delhi. (2) The theme of the Conclave was: Economics of Nuclear Power- Innovation towards Safer &amp; Cost Effective Technologies. From the above, correct statement\/s is\/are: (a) Only (1) (b) Only (2) (c) Both (1) and (2) (d) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":86296,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1155],"tags":[2334],"class_list":["post-86295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conference","tag-conference"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86295","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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86295\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86295"}],"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=86295"},{"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=86295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}