Consider the following statements 1. India has 10 Pressurized Heavy Water Reactors (PHWRs). 2. The spent fuel from the PHWRs is reprocessed into plutonium. 3. All imported reactors are under the safeguards of the international Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).

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Q: 41 (CDS-II/2007)
Consider the following statements
1. India has 10 Pressurized Heavy Water Reactors (PHWRs).
2. The spent fuel from the PHWRs is reprocessed into plutonium.
3. All imported reactors are under the safeguards of the international Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
Which of the statements given above is/ are correct ?

question_subject: 

General Knowledge

question_exam: 

CDS-II

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0,19,55,8,19,30,17

keywords: 

{'reactors': [0, 0, 2, 0], 'pressurized heavy water reactors': [0, 0, 2, 0], 'plutonium': [0, 1, 0, 0], 'international atomic energy agency': [0, 0, 3, 1], 'safeguards': [0, 0, 3, 1], 'phwrs': [0, 0, 2, 0], 'spent fuel': [0, 0, 2, 0], 'iaea': [0, 0, 5, 1]}

Option 1 states that India has 10 Pressurized Heavy Water Reactors (PHWRs). This statement is not correct as the question states that India has 10 PHWRs, so the correct answer should include option 1.

Option 2 states that the spent fuel from the PHWRs is reprocessed into plutonium. This statement is correct as PHWRs are known for their ability to use reprocessed uranium fuel and produce plutonium as a byproduct.

Option 3 states that all imported reactors are under the safeguards of the international Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). This statement is not mentioned in the question, so it cannot be determined whether it is correct or not.

Therefore, the correct answer is option 1, which indicates that statement 1 only is correct. The other statements are either incorrect or not mentioned in the question.