Question

Which one of the following atomic reactors is not present in ‘Atomic research City’ at Mumbai?
A. Apsara
B. Narora
C. Zarlina
D. Purnima

Answer 1

Hint: The name of ‘Atomic research City’ is BARC- Bhabha Atomic Research Centre. The headquarters is in Trombay, Mumbai. BARC has been tasked with establishing the technical independence needed to comply with India's nuclear energy strategy.

Complete answer:
BARC has eight research reactors namely Apsara, Cirus, Dhruva, Zerlina, Purnima-I, Purnima-II, Purnima-III, and Kamini. In the state of Uttar Pradesh, the Narora nuclear power plant is situated. Narora Place is situated on the banks of the Ganges River and is home to one of the nation's nuclear power plant networks, run by the Government of India's Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited, a public sector enterprise under the Department of Atomic Energy which is headquartered in Trombay, Mumbai, Maharashtra, it is India's premier nuclear research facility.

The central mandate of the BARC is to maintain peaceful nuclear energy applications, mainly for power generation. It handles all aspects of nuclear power generation, from reactor theoretical design to computerized modeling and simulation, risk analysis, new reactor fuel material production, and testing, etc. Today, BARC is the largest research and development organization in India focused on indigenous nuclear power and other nuclear technology applications. BARC employees perform research on almost every aspect of nuclear technology.

Therefore the answer is B.

Note:
BARC designed India’s first Pressurized water reactor. BARC has research institutions affiliated with it which are IGCAR, RRCAT, VECC. BARC also has dedicated departments to other high technology areas like accelerators, micro electron beams, materials design, supercomputers, and computer vision among the few.