1. Which of the following statements are correct?
1. FY2025-’26 Budget proposes 20,000 crore ‘Nuclear Energy Mission’ to develop indigenous Small Modular Reactors (SMRs).
2. They will be developed by BARC and NPCIL.
3. The plan includes private sector engagement for providing land, cooling water, and capital, while NPCIL handles design, quality assurance and operational management.
(a) 1 and 2 (b) 1 and 3 (c) 2 and 3 (d) 1, 2 and 3
2. Which of the following statements are correct?
1. Criticality is the state of a nuclear reactor when enough neutrons are created by fission to make up for those lost by leakage or absorption such that the number of neutrons produced in fission remains constant.
2. Recently, India’s largest nuclear power plant- Rajasthan Atomic Power Project's Unit-7 (RAPP-7) achieved criticality.
(a) 1 only (b) 2 only (c) Both (d) None
3. Which of the following correctly defines Zero Trust Model (ZTM) architecture?
(a) It is a framework requiring all users to be continuously authenticated, authorized, and continuously validated before being granted.
(b) It is a cyber security architecture which only trusts human built programmes to eliminate threats of artificial bots.
(c) It is an e-commerce security architecture for securing day to day transactions and to reduce e-commerce frauds.
(d) It is a sandbox-based model to test bot trust and AI efficiency.
4. How many of the following statements is/are correct?
1. Hydrogels are 3 dimensional networks composed of hydro phobic polymers synthesized by cross-linking water-soluble polymers.
2. Hydrogels can retain a large quantity of water within their network without disturbing their original structure.
3. Hydrogels cannot be used as bioink in the 3D bioprinting as they contain water molecules.
4. The most commonly used bioinks in tissue regeneration include gelatin, sodium alginate, agarose, silk fibroin, hyaluronic acid, collagen, chitosan, cellulose, polyethylene glycol diacrylate (PEGDA) etc.
(a) Only one (b) Only two (c) Only three (d) All four
ANSWERS
1. (d) 2. (a) 3. (a) 4. (c)
