OPENING ADDRESS

The opportunity to open today's Symposium which I do as one of the Vice Presidents of BNES is particularly welcome because of my previous connections with the West of England. It is a matter of history that I was invited to join the General Purposes and Finance Committee of BNES with a view to setting up a Western Branch because of the considerable nuclear interest in the area. The activities of another organisation in moving me to the South East prevented me achieving that objective. The successful efforts of the Western Branch in creating today's Symposium shows that the eventual organisers have not only done the job but in all probability done it better than I could.