Norman Worley

Contrary to the public conception of the nuclear industry as secretive, nuclear engineers organise public conferences covering virtually all of the technical design, safety and operating aspects of nuclear plant. Most of these conferences are international ones with delegates and papers from all over the world. 

The public concept of the nuclear industry is one of secrecy. In fact, the UK programme is typical of the range of nuclear conferences and meetings in most western countries. Nuclear experts publish enormous quantities of technical material. 

Dealing still with technical and learned societies, the European Nuclear Society, which has member societies from all Western European countries, publishes a monthly journal Nuclear Europe which is 

Turning to the commercial front, the main companies and bodies in the UK that supply nuclear equipment have formed the British Nuclear Forum, which has links with similar European bodies, its objectives being to promote nuclear exhibitions and conferences, often associated with conferences of the European Nuclear Forum. 

In the United States of America, the American Nuclear Society and American Nuclear Forum have considerable political influence. Both help to draw up standards of design, safety and operation. Recently (September 1987) the Atomic Industrial Forum and other nuclear organisations have been restructured under the direction of the Nuclear Power Oversight Committee (NPOC) with three organisations reporting to it  

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A visit to Hunterston was made on 11-12 May 1987 by Norman Worley and Glynne Lewis on behalf of the Watt Committee Working Group on the Chernobyl Accident and its Implications. The attendance at the emergency exercise on 12 May was by the kind permission of the South of Scotland Electricity Board. 

The members of the Working Group are listed elsewhere in this Report. On behalf of The Watt Committee on Energy, I am grateful to them all, and can only mention here the outstanding importance of Norman Worley s role as its Chairman. The study could not have been undertaken (or not on anything like this... 

The Chernobyl accident and its implications for the United Kingdom/ edited by Norman G.Worley and Jeffery D.Lewins. p. cm.—(Watt Committee report no. 19)... 

Worley, M. S., 1967, Super-dehydration with Glycols, Proc. Gas Conditioning Conf, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK. 

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