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.
(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.