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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 are 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.
In March 2011 I wrote a comment for Chatham House on Japan's nuclear crisis.
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Walt
Patterson On Energy