Match the following environmental disasters with the words or phrases associated them.

List I	List II
A) Bhopal gas tragedy	i) Dumping of Hazardous substances
B) Chernobyl disaster	ii) Peroxyaoetyl Nitrates (PAN)
C) Love Canal tragedy	iii) Nuclear Accident
D) Los Angeles smog	iv) Methyl Isocyanide

Choose the correct option from those given below:

Disasters

Description

Bhopal Gas Tragedy

• The Bhopal plant was owned and operated by Union Carbide India Limited (UCIL).
• On 3^rd December  1984, the disaster struck due to the leakage of methylisocyanate (MIC) gas from one of the tanks of the factory.
• The Bhopal Disaster saw thousands of people losing their lives.

The Chernobyl Disaster

• This accident occurred in 1986 at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine, then part of the former Soviet Union.
• It is the only accident in the history of commercial nuclear power to cause fatalities from radiation.
• It was the result of a severely flawed reactor design combined with human error.

The Love Canal Disaster

• Love Canal is one of the most shocking environmental man-made disasters in American history.
• It was the first US state of emergency to be declared over a human-made disaster and it was a thoughtful lesson about the harmful effects of dumping hazardous/toxic substances.

Los Angeles Smog

• Los Angeles has had years of thick air pollution due to a ballooning population, unregulated industry, booming car industry and its natural geography.
• Photochemical smog was first recognized in Los Angeles during the Second World War, so it came to be called Los Angeles Smog.
• Photochemical smog is a mixture of ozone, nitric acid, aldehydes, peroxyacetyl nitrates (PANs) and other secondary pollutants.