In which one of the following areas did the Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research make
In which one of the following areas did the Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research make significant progress in the year 2005’?
(a) Reprocessing the uranium-plutonium mixed carbide fuel of the Fast Breeder Test Reactor.
(b) New applications of radioisotopes in metallurgy.
(c) A new technology for production of heavy water.
(d) A new technology for high level nuclear waste management.
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(a) The Indira Gandhi Centre has established a comprehensive R & D infrastructure over the entire range of FBR technology, spanning reactor engineering, metallurgy and materials, chemistry of fuels and materials, fuel reprocessing and reactor safety studies. Development of the indigenous plutonium-uranium mixed carbide nuclear fuel for the fast breeder test reactor. The fuel has performed satisfactorily and produced for the first time in our country, nuclear electricity from a fast reactor.