India is an important member of the 'International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor'. If this experiment succeeds, what is the immediate advantage for India?
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Answer: D. ITER is a project to show that nuclear fusion can produce power. If it succeeds, India, as a member, gets access to the technology to build its own fusion reactors for power generation.
Watch for: India's thorium programme is well known, so students link any nuclear project to thorium.
Why the other options are wrong
- A. Wrong because ITER is about fusion, not thorium fission.
- B. Wrong because it has nothing to do with satellite navigation.
- C. Wrong because ITER does not improve fission reactors.
Source to check: Department of Atomic Energy, ITER-India page (iter-india.org); ITER Organization (iter.org)
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