Watt Committee Reports

The papers in this Watt Committee report describe the Chernobyl Number 4 Reactor, detail the main components of the accident and its consequences, and then explore what there is of relevance to the United Kingdom at a time when the future of nuclear power here is a major issue between the political parties. 

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)... 

Thurlow, G. (ed.) 1990. Technological Responses to the Greenhouse Effect. Watt Committee Report Number 23, Elsevier, London. 

The latest Annual Report and a copy of the Memorandum and Articles of Association of the Watt Committee on Energy may be obtained on application to the Secretary. 

The attitude of The Watt Committee on Energy to the civil nuclear power question was stated in a Report entitled Nuclear Energy a Professional Assessment, published in March 1984. The then Chairman of the Watt Committee, Dr Jack Chesters, in his foreword to... 

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 Watt Committee on Energy can call on technically informed people from a wide range of backgrounds both within and outside the power industry. It was therefore particularly well qualified to form a Working Group to report on what occurred and make recommendations from an informed but independent position. 

For Watt s description of the indicator see Robison, System of Mechanical Philosophy, vol. 2, pp. 156-7. On Farey and the indicator R. B. Prosser, Birmingham Inventors and Inventions (Birmingham The Journal Printing Works, New Street, 1881), p. 36 John Farey in Report of the Select Committee on the Law Relative to Patentsfor Inventions, 1829, p. 138 A. P. Woolrich, John Farey and his Treatise on the Steam Engine (1827) , History of Technology, 22 (2000), pp. 63-106. 

Cowie, G. (2002) Arabian Sea benthic dynamics, in Report of the Indian Ocean Synthesis Group on the Arabian Sea Process Study, JGOFS Report No. 35 (eds L. Watts, P. Burkill and S. Smith), Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research, International Council of Scientific Unions, Bergen, pp. 74-78. 

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