Previous year MCQs

General science UPPSC 1994 GS-I
Question

Consider the following statements:

Assert ion (A): Earnest Rutherford asserted before the Royal Society that man will never get nuclear power.
Reason (R): He was sure that Einstein's law will fail and mass will not be converted into energy.

Select your answer from the coding scheme given below:

Answer & Solution

Answer: (Detailed Solution Below)

Option A: Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A)

Detailed Solution:

The correct answer is “Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A)”.
Rutherford was reported in 1933 to have declared that this energy could not be exploited efficiently: Anyone who expects a source of power from the transformation of the atom is talking moonshine.

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Codes:
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