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:

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

B) Both (A) and (R) are true but (R) is not the correct explanation

C) (A) is true and (R) is false

D) (A) is false but (R) is true

This MCQ is part of the UP PSC Previous Year Questions (PYQs) series, focusing on UPPSC Prelims 1994 (GS Paper I)