Practicing Success

Target Exam

CUET

Subject

Biology

Chapter

Environmental Issues

Question:

What type of serious problems arise using nuclear energy ?

Options:

Accidental leakage .

Increase in temperature .

Safe disposal of radioactive wastes.

Both (1) and (3) .

Correct Answer:

Both (1) and (3) .

Explanation:

Initially, nuclear energy was hailed as a non-polluting way for generating electricity. Later on, it was realised that the use of nuclear energy has two very serious inherent problems.

The first is accidental leakage, as occurred in the Three Mile Island and Chernobyl incidents and the second is safe disposal of radioactive wastes.