Walt Patterson On Energy – Contents

Books

Nuclear Power
The Fissile Society: Energy, Electricity and the Nuclear Option
The Plutonium Business and the Spread of the Bomb
Going Critical: An Unofficial History of British Nuclear Power
The Energy Alternative: Changing The Way The World Works
Transforming Electricity (Chinese)

Papers

The British Atom *NEW*
Helping the public judge contentious issues involving science *NEW*
Energy: Towards The All-Purpose Policy
The Technological Demands of Nuclear Power
In Search of the Peaceful Atom
Discussing Energy Policy: A Style Guide
Clean Coal
The commercialization of new technologies *NEW*
Electricity: International Futures (Working Paper 1)
Electricity: Liberal Futures (Working Paper 2)
Electricity: Decentralized Futures (Working Paper 3)
Electricity: Network Futures (Working Paper 4)
Electricity: Business Futures (Working Paper 5)
Energy 21: Making The World Work
'Environmental' Involvement In British Civil Nuclear Policy
Running The Planet
Can Public Service Survive The Market?: Issues For Liberalized Electricity
Overview: The Electric Challenge
Generating Change
Networking Change
Transforming Our Energy Within A Generation
Managing Energy Wrong *NEW*

Articles

Odourless, Tasteless and Dangerous
US ponders possible runaway reactors
George Weil - from activator to activist
Nuclear power
A new monster in the lochs
Is fission worth it?
The Age Of Power *NEW*
Radioactive Contamination *NEW*
Windscale to be world capital for radioactive waste?
The Bellman cometh *NEW*
Plutonium: our fearful option
Hiroshima Pilgrimage
Love me do
Fox with a nuclear bite
Exporting Armageddon
A Marshall plan, nuclear style *NEW*
To bed betimes
In the hot bed of controversy *NEW*
In need of a burst of energy *NEW*
Japanese germ warfare tests... *NEW*
A New Way To Burn
The island they blasted and damned *NEW*
A beanfeast that bore fruit *NEW*
Policy-making In A Nuclear Program *NEW*
Would you want to whistle at a Hiroshima swimsuit?
Brave Nuclear World
Ho-hum - another nuclear outrage
NUCLEAR SHOCK HORROR EXPOSE
Sellafield should stop nuclear reprocessing *NEW*
Future Energy Consumption of the Third World *NEW*
A report on Sizewell *NEW*
Breeder reactor politics in Europe *NEW*
Chernobyl - the official story *NEW*
Chernobyl - worst but not first *NEW*
Japan's perilous plutonium flights *NEW*
The cloud that could cast a shadow anywhere
Nuclear Power and its Opponents *NEW*
Crashing about in the nuclear wilderness
Wormwood *NEW*
The Slow Dawn of the Fast Reactor
Why rush to spread radioactivity? *NEW*
Britain's Part in a Nuclear Falling Out
Coal comfort in fluidised beds *NEW*
Grim legacy of meltdown
Eagerly confronting challenge
A bandwagon without the banned
How to make the coal flow cleaner *NEW*
Now what
Are we throwing away the planet's future?
Anatomy of an accident *NEW*
Full Circle
Decentralizing Networks
Climate-Energy-Infrastructure
Nuclear amnesia
Loft Insulation As Foreign Policy
Fifty years of hopes and fears *NEW*

Speeches

The Technological Demands of Nuclear Power
Environmental Impact In Perspective
From the proceedings of Challenges to Nuclear Waste Management
Environmental Troublemaking
Future electricity systems *NEW*
Electricity in flux *NEW*
Centrifugal Electricity
The Electric Challenge: Getting The Story Right
Getting Energy Right
Sustainable Electricity: Cultural Barriers
The Emperor's Nuclear Clothes
Energy Policy is Infrastructure Policy
Down With Conservation!.. *NEW*

Miscellany

About Walt Patterson
Patterson Nuclear Collection
Nuclear power - Letters to the editor
Discussing Energy: A Style Guide

Columns from Modern Power Systems

Lessons from a small island (November 1998)
Know your acronyms (December 1998)
From talking shop to major player (February 1999)
What do you mean, 'modern power systems'? (March 1999)
Turning fine words into deeds (May 1999)
Power for the people (August 1999)
Take out some insurance (November 1999)
Cogeneration heard and seen (March 2000)
I don't like renewables (May 2000)
Watch your climate language (December 2000)
Bush, climate and energy policy (June 2001)
Distributed energy runs the planet (August 2001)
How much does electricity cost? (November 2002)
Lovins, RMI and small, profitable electricity (March 2003)
Wanted: caution, purpose, flair (April 2004)
Snow White and the clean dwarf (November 2004)
Infrastructure needed, not fuel (April 2005)
Wind in power systems: bringing it to book (May 2005)
Renewables go north (August 2005)
From Edison to Enron (March 2006)
Listen to this guy Fawkes (August 2007) *NEW*
A modern power system on your tabletop? (October 2007) *NEW*

Columns from Environment

The struggle between highways and railways (January/February 1973)
Airports, Concorde in trouble (April 1973)
A bit of undermining (July/August 1973)
Uneasy bedmates (March 1974)
The sun also rises (June 1975)
Redundant swords, plowshares needed (April 1976)
Respectable saboteurs (October 1976)
Surf's end (November 1976)
Setback for plutonium (March 1977)

© Walt Patterson 2008