Current Affairs 7th July

 Current affairs 7th July 2025 by Right IAS The Chandrabhaga River, also known as the Bhima River, flows through Pandharpur, a major pilgrimage town in Maharashtra, India. It’s named Chandrabhaga because the river takes a crescent-moon shape near Pandharpur Topic ⟶ Kakrapar Atomic Power Station (KAPS) The Atomic Energy Regulatory Board (AERB) has granted Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd. (NPCIL) licence to operate two indigenously developed 700 MWe pressurised heavy water reactors (PHWRs) at the

 

Kakrapar Atomic Power Station (KAPS) in Gujarat Atomic Energy Regulatory Board (AERB) Establishment Formed: November 15, 1983 Under: Department of Atomic Energy (DAE), Government of India Based in: Mumbai, Maharashtra Mandate & Role The AERB is the regulatory body responsible for ensuring the safety of nuclear installations and radiation protection in India. What is a Heavy Water Reactor (HWR)? A Heavy Water Reactor is a type of nuclear reactor that uses:

Heavy water (D₂O) as a moderator (and sometimes as coolant), and Natural uranium or low enriched uranium as fuel. What is Heavy Water? Heavy water (D₂O) is water where hydrogen (H) atoms are replaced by deuterium (D), a heavier isotope of hydrogen. It is a better neutron moderator than regular water because it absorbs fewer neutrons. India’s Use of Heavy Water Reactors India developed and uses PHWRs (Pressurised Heavy Water Reactors): Advantages for India:

Can use natural uranium, reducing dependence on imported enriched uranium. Indigenous capability: India has abundant uranium and has developed its own heavy water production Topic ⟶ (SeaWiFS) & Eddies On August 1, 1997, the Sea-viewing Wide Fieldof-view Sensor (SeaWiFS) was launched on the OrbView-2 satellite. SeaWiFS (Sea-Viewing Wide Field-of-View Sensor) was a satellite-borne sensor designed to collect global ocean biological data. Active from September 1997 to December 2010, its primary mission was to quantify chlorophyll produced by marine phytoplankton (microscopic plants). eddy. The ocean is a huge body of water that is constantly in motion. General patterns of ocean flow are called currents. Sometimes

theses currents can pinch off sections and create circular currents of water called an eddy Fact ⟶ Helgoland is a small red-sandstone island in the North Sea, about 50 km off Germany’s coast. Topic ⟶ Khelo Bharat Niti 2025 – National Sports Policy Passed on: July 1, 2025, by the Union Cabinet Vision: Transform sports into a key pillar of Viksit Bharat (Developed India). Strengthen India’s bid to become a global sports leader, with sights set