The Rajasthan Atomic Power Station at Rawatbhata is in which district?
- A.Kota
- B.Baran
- C.Chittorgarh
- D.Jhalawar
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The correct answer is C, Chittorgarh. Rawatbhata stands on the Chambal in Chittorgarh district, beside the Rana Pratap Sagar dam whose water cools the reactors. Its first unit, built with Canadian cooperation, was the first pressurised heavy water reactor of India, and the station has grown into one of the largest atomic power complexes in the country.
Option A is wrong, and is the usual wrong choice, because the station is near Kota city and is often loosely called the Kota atomic plant, while Kota district itself holds the Kota Super Thermal Power Station and the Jawahar Sagar dam. Option B is wrong because Baran district has the Chhabra thermal station. Option D is wrong because Jhalawar district has the Kalisindh thermal station. The station also gave its name to the heavy water plant in the same complex, and its units are of the indigenous pressurised heavy water design that followed the first one.
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Practice Questions
View allThe Rampura Agucha mine, the largest lead and zinc mine of India, is in which district of Rajasthan?
- A.Udaipur
- B.Bhilwara
- C.Rajsamand
- D.Sirohi
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Rampura Agucha lies in Bhilwara district and is the largest lead and zinc mine of the country, worked for many years as a very large open pit and now mined underground; silver comes out of the same ore as a by product.
Read the full explanation →The Zawar mines, famous for the oldest known zinc smelting in the world, are in which district?
- A.Udaipur
- B.Chittorgarh
- C.Jhunjhunu
- D.Nagaur
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The Zawar mines lie south of Udaipur city and have been worked since ancient times; archaeologists have found clay retorts there that were used to distil zinc, which makes Zawar the earliest known zinc smelting site anywhere in the world.
Read the full explanation →The Khetri copper belt of Rajasthan lies in which district?
- A.Sikar
- B.Alwar
- C.Jhunjhunu
- D.Dausa
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The Khetri Copper Complex in Jhunjhunu district, with the Madan Kudan and Kolihan mines, is the centre of copper mining in Rajasthan and is run by a central public sector company.
Read the full explanation →Jhamarkotra, the largest rock phosphate deposit of India, is located in which district?
- A.Jaisalmer
- B.Udaipur
- C.Banswara
- D.Pali
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Jhamarkotra, a short distance from Udaipur city, is the largest rock phosphate deposit in the country and the main domestic source of raw material for phosphatic fertiliser, which India otherwise imports in large quantity.
Read the full explanation →Degana, the tungsten mining centre of Rajasthan, is in which district?
- A.Nagaur
- B.Bikaner
- C.Tonk
- D.Bundi
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Tungsten, in the form of the ore wolframite, is mined at the Rewat hill near Degana in Nagaur district, which has long been the main tungsten occurrence of the country.
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