UPSC Prelims Practice Questions — India, U.S. to boost nuclear cooperation, explore LPG exports

Question 1

Under the SHANTI Act, 2025, which one of the following bodies is granted statutory status and made accountable to Parliament as India's nuclear safety regulator?

Accepted Answer

Atomic Energy Regulatory Board (AERB)

Answer

Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited (NPCIL)

Answer

Department of Atomic Energy (DAE)

Answer

Bharatiya Nabhikiya Vidyut Nigam Limited (BHAVINI)

Question 2

Under which provision of the Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage Act, 2010 does the operator obtain a right of recourse against the supplier of a nuclear installation?

Accepted Answer

Section 17

Answer

Section 6

Answer

Section 4

Answer

Section 46

Question 3

Prior to the SHANTI Act, 2025, which one of the following owned and operated India's commercial nuclear power reactors?

Accepted Answer

Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited (NPCIL)

Answer

Atomic Energy Regulatory Board (AERB)

Answer

Bharatiya Nabhikiya Vidyut Nigam Limited (BHAVINI)

Answer

Department of Atomic Energy (DAE)

Question 4

India's three-stage nuclear power programme, aimed at the eventual utilisation of the country's vast thorium reserves, was conceptualised by which one of the following?

Accepted Answer

Homi J. Bhabha

Answer

Vikram Sarabhai

Answer

Raja Ramanna

Answer

Homi N. Sethna

Question 5

The India–U.S. Strategic Energy Partnership (launched 2018, later reframed as the Strategic Clean Energy Partnership) was established as the lead intergovernmental energy mechanism, superseding which one of the following?

Accepted Answer

U.S.-India Energy Dialogue

Answer

U.S.-India Climate and Clean Energy Agenda 2030 Partnership

Answer

U.S.-India Nuclear Energy Dialogue

Answer

U.S.-India Energy Security Forum

Question 6

Which one of the following is the flagship national target set by the Government of India for coal/lignite gasification by the year 2030?

Accepted Answer

100 million tonnes

Answer

50 million tonnes

Answer

150 million tonnes

Answer

100 GW of gasification-based power

Question 7

In the April 2026 India–U.S. energy talks, the U.S. side linked its readiness for expanded civil nuclear commercial cooperation primarily to the passage of which Indian legislation?

Accepted Answer

SHANTI Act, 2025

Answer

Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage Act, 2010

Answer

Atomic Energy Act, 1962

Answer

Energy Conservation (Amendment) Act, 2022

UPSC Prelims Practice Questions — India, U.S. to boost nuclear cooperation, explore LPG exports

Q1. Under the SHANTI Act, 2025, which one of the following bodies is granted statutory status and made accountable to Parliament as India's nuclear safety regulator?

Q2. Under which provision of the Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage Act, 2010 does the operator obtain a right of recourse against the supplier of a nuclear installation?

Q3. Prior to the SHANTI Act, 2025, which one of the following owned and operated India's commercial nuclear power reactors?

Q4. India's three-stage nuclear power programme, aimed at the eventual utilisation of the country's vast thorium reserves, was conceptualised by which one of the following?

Q5. The India–U.S. Strategic Energy Partnership (launched 2018, later reframed as the Strategic Clean Energy Partnership) was established as the lead intergovernmental energy mechanism, superseding which one of the following?

Q6. Which one of the following is the flagship national target set by the Government of India for coal/lignite gasification by the year 2030?

Q7. In the April 2026 India–U.S. energy talks, the U.S. side linked its readiness for expanded civil nuclear commercial cooperation primarily to the passage of which Indian legislation?