Q.22 In the textbook you same across the three-mile island and Chernobyl
disasters associated with accidental leakage of radioactive wastes. In
India we had the Bhopal gas tragedy. It is associated with which of the
following

1. CO2

2. Methyl isocyanate

3.. CFC's

4. Methyl cyanate

Ans. (b) MIC (Methyl Isocyanate) was leaked from the insecticide (SAVIN) unit of Union Carbide at Bhopal. Which lead to Bhopal Gas Tragedy. This chemical tragedy occurred on December 2rd 1984 at Bhopal, the capital of Madhya Pradesh. In which around 2000-3000 people died on that same night.