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- Title
SACRIFICIAL EXPERTS? SCIENCE, SENESCENCE AND SAVING THE BRITISH NUCLEAR PROJECT.
- Authors
Agar, Jon
- Abstract
The essay considers a volunteer project consisting of British scientists and engineers over the age of 65 to aid as part of the emergency response team to a potential nuclear disaster. In response to reports regarding the 1986 disaster at the Soviet nuclear power plant in Chernobyl, Ukraine, British chemical engineer Sir Frederick Warner proposed establishing the Volunteers for Ionising Radiation from members of the Fellows of the Royal Society and the Fellowship of Engineering (later renamed the Royal Academy of Engineering).
- Subjects
UNITED Kingdom; EMERGENCY management; FIRST responders; OLDER people; VOLUNTEER service; NUCLEAR accidents; CHERNOBYL Nuclear Accident, Chornobyl, Ukraine, 1986; ROYAL Society (Great Britain); ROYAL Academy of Engineering (London, England)
- Publication
History of Science, 2013, Vol 51, Issue 1, p63
- ISSN
0073-2753
- Publication type
Essay
- DOI
10.1177/007327531305100103