Question

Which country invented  CANDU heavy water reactor?

(a) Canada

(b) Germany

(c) Russia

(d) Bolivia

The question was posed to me during an internship interview.

This is a very interesting question from Types of Nuclear Reactor & Nuclear Waste in section Nuclear Power Plant of Energy Engineering

Answer 1

The correct answer is (a) Canada

To explain I would say: The CANDU is a Canadian pressurized heavy water reactor design used to generate electric power. Heavy water nuclear reactors and light water nuclear reactors differ in how they create and manage the complex physics of nuclear fission or atom-splitting which produces the energy and heat to create steam to drive generators.