Walt Patterson On Energy

Nuclear power: Articles




'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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