[cdn-nucl-l] Ray Silver passed away

["Whitlock, Jeremy" <whitlockj@aecl.ca>]

Many listserv subscribers will know the name Ray Silver, synonymous with
nuclear journalism in this country for decades and until recently the
Canadian correspondent for Nuclear News.  Ray passed away this weekend
suddenly from a massive stroke.  The funeral is this Wednesday.

Ray Silver had been writing about Canadian nuclear science and technology
since 1952.  In earlier days Mr. Silver was a reporter for the Windsor Star,
Toronto Daily Star, and the Globe & Mail.  During WWII he flew with Bomber
Command and was shot down over Holland.  Post-war he edited The Etobicoke
Press, Canadian Atomic Newsletter, and Journal of College of General
Practice, and wrote articles for Maclean's and business publications.  He
also had his own PR firm for a quarter century.

From 1978 until his retirement last August (2000) Ray was a member of the
Ontario legislative press gallery for McGraw-Hill energy publications
(Nucleonics Week).  He reported on the 1986 Chernobyl information sessions
at the IAEA for Canadian Press, and is also the author of "Fallout from
Chernobyl" (1987), as well as "The Last of the Gladiators" (1995) about his
wartime experiences.

Jeremy Whitlock