Malcolm Grimston

Malcolm Charles Grimston (born 1 May 1958) is a British advocate of nuclear power, and is also a scientific author, based at the Centre for Energy Policy and Technology at Imperial College London.[1] He has featured extensively on British television and radio in context of the latest new-build power stations for nuclear power in the United Kingdom.

Early life

Grimston was born in Cleethorpes, now in North East Lincolnshire, then in Lindsey. He grew up in North Yorkshire, attending the independent Scarborough College. He studied natural sciences at Magdalene College, Cambridge, where he graduated in 1979. He subsequently took a Postgraduate Certificate in Education (PGCE), again at Magdalene Cambridge.

Career

Grimston taught chemistry for seven years from 1980, at Stowe and Millfield schools. From 1987-92 he was an information officer at the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA). From 1992-95 he was an information officer at the British Nuclear Industry Forum (now called the Nuclear Industry Association). From 1999-2002 he was also at the Royal Institute of International Affairs, also known as Chatham House.[2]

Since 1995, Grimston has worked at the Imperial Centre for Energy Policy and Technology at Imperial College, as a senior research fellow until 1999 and an honorary senior research fellow since then.

Publications

  • Double or Quits – the global future of civil nuclear energy (with Peter Beck, Earthscan Books, 2002)
  • Civil nuclear energy – fuel of the future or relic of the past? (with Peter Beck, Chatham House 2000)
  • The paralysis in energy decision-making (Whittle Publishing, September 2016)

Personal life

Grimston lives in Tooting. He is an independent councillor on Wandsworth London Borough Council,[3] which the Conservatives have controlled since 1978. He has represented West Hill Ward since 1994. Standing as a Conservative for the first 20 years until his decision to become an Independent in 2014. In the 2018 council election he was returned for the Ward with 4,002 votes, one of the highest in Wandsworth Council's history and the largest majority over second place in the Council's history.

See also

  • Category:Books about nuclear issues

References

  1. ↑ Imperial College
  2. ↑ Chatham House
  3. ↑ Wandsworth Council Archived 2014-08-08 at the Wayback Machine.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.