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'Radioactive
Waste: Odourless, Tasteless and Dangerous' carried my first
published byline. I was stunned to realize recently that I had
mentioned fossil fuels 'disturbing the carbon dioxide balance' in
1970. In 1973 the Ecologist
published my article
'Nuclear power', and
Environment
'The British Atom'.
In 1975 I wrote a Friends of the Earth tabloid whose front
page asked 'Is fission worth it?'
and 'Windscale to be world
capital for radioactive waste?. In 1976 the Observer
described 'Plutonium: Our Fearful
Option'. In 1979 I was invited to contribute to the twentieth
anniversary issue of the Journal of the Institute of Nuclear
Engineering, on '"Environmental"
Involvement in British Civil Nuclear Policy'. I wrote for the Guardian,
New Scientist, the
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists,
the much-missed Vole magazine and
other periodicals. The entire
archive of the Bulletin is now available on Google. Links to my Bulletin
articles, some thirty in all, will be here.
In 2006, in The World Today,
I was bemused by Nuclear amnesia. In October 2007, in
Nature, I reflected on
the fiftieth anniversary of the Windscale fire.
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Walt
Patterson On Energy