Which of the Following Accidents Was One of the First

question 34

Multiple Choice

Which of the following accidents was one of the first cases to bring environmental issues together with the questions of poverty and development?

• A)The Chernobyl nuclear power plant meltdown in the late 1900s in Ukraine
• B)The Bhopal chemical leak in India in the early 1980s
• C)The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant meltdown in Japan
• D)The Aswan Dam collapse in Egypt in the mid-1950s

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