Lawrence Cope also authored many papers relating to his career as a research metallurgist.
| ID | Author(s) | Title | Publication | Date | Pages |
| 1 | Cope L.H. & Kellett F. | A Simple Device for Plotting Inverse-Rate Cooling Curves | Metallurgia, Volume 53, No.315 (January) |
1956 | 54 |
| 2 | Frost B.R.T., Long W., Cope L.H., Manson J.E., Lambert J.D.B., Mardon P.G. & Lloyd H. | Fabrication and Irradiation Studies of UO2 - Stainless Steel and (U,Pu)O2 - Stainless Steel Cermets | Third United Nations International Conference on the Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy, Paper A/CONF.28/P/153 United Kingdom (May) |
1964 | 1-15 |
| 3 | Cope L.H. | A Coining Technique for the Fabrication of Medium-Volume Cermet Nuclear Fuels | Metallurgia, Volume 70, No.418 (August) |
1964 | 59-63 |
| 4 | Cope L.H., Jackson P.W. & Wilkins B.J.S. | The Braze Bonding of Cermet Nuclear Fuels | Metallurgia, Volume 70, No.420 (October) |
1964 | 153-158 |
| 5 | Hume G.J.T., Cope L.H. & Hall H.T. | The Solid and Liquid State Diffusion of Copper into Stainless Steels Part I - Microscopical Studies of Diffusion in the Solid State | Metallurgia, Volume 71, No.425 (March) |
1965 | 107-113 |
| 6 | Hume G.J.T., Cope L.H. & Hall H.T. | The Solid and Liquid State Diffusion of Copper into Stainless Steels Part II - Activation Energies for Diffusion in the Solid State; and Observations on the Mechanisms whereby Liquid Copper Attacks Solid Stainless Steels | Metallurgia, Volume 71, No.426 (April) |
1965 | 169-175 |
| 7 | Cope L.H. | The Mechanical Properties of Nuclear Cermets | Metallurgia, Volume 72, No.432 (October) |
1965 | 165-177 |
| 8 | Frame A.G. & Cope L.H. | The Progress of Fast Reactor Development in the United Kingdom | BNX Review, No.2 (November) |
1967 | 13-16 |
| 9 | Cope L.H. | Nuclear Power Stations of the Future | Project (Central Office of Information), No.6 (Spring) |
1968 | 23-27 |
| 10 | Butcher B.R. & Cope L.H. | The Elongation to Fracture of Unbonded Cermets | International Journal of Powder Metallurgy, Volume 4 No.4 (October) |
1968 | 49-57 |
Many patents were granted where Lawrence Cope was the sole or co-inventor during his career with the UKAEA. The family understand that he held the greatest number of patents in that organisation. Many were classified, but the few non-secret ones are recorded here.
| Number | Inventor(s) | Title | International Versions |
| GB818193 | Winton J. & Cope L.H. | Improvements in or relating to Nuclear Reactors | FR1189743 |
| GB884946 | Cope L.H. | Improvements in or relating to Powders for Extinguishing Fires | US3095372, CH380539, NL121911C, NL253384, NL275498 |
| GB904366 | Cope L.H. | Improvements in or relating to Fuel for Nuclear Reactors | FR1237086 |
| GB913858 | Cope L.H. & Sowden R.G. | Improvements in or relating to Ceramic Fuel for Nuclear Reactors | US3114689, BE592293, DE1166075 |
| GB969975 | Cope L.H. & Warmer R.J. | Improvements relating to the Manufacture of Cermet Nuclear Fuels and Fuel Elements Containing Such Fuels | US3336656, DE1260039 |
| GB1063372 | Cope L.H. | Improvements relating to Stainless Steels, particularly for Nuclear Reactor Fuel Elements | US3301668, FR1426494 |
Possibly the most important patent commercially (for the UKAEA) was GB884946 for his invention of the Ternary Eutectic Chloride (TEC) fire extinguisher, to fight fires of uranium, plutonium and thorium.
The Daily Mail of Thursday May 11, 1961 identified him as the inventor in this story:-
UKAEA Internal Reports held by The National Archives, Kew
Lawrence Cope wrote many reports during his career with the UKAEA and some of his earlier ones are included in UKAEA documents deposited with The National Archives.
(PFR = Prototype Fast Reactor)
| TNA Ref. | Author(s) | Title | Date | UKAEA Ref. |
| AB 7/5437 | L H Cope and J Winton | Plutonium spikes for magnox canned gas cooled thermal reactors | 1956 Nov | IGR-TM/R099 (PTC/P5) |
| AB 7/6049 | L H Cope | Some suggested designs for plutonium spikes for the Magnox canned gas cooled thermal reactors | 1957 Mar | IGR-TN/R493 (PTC/P8) |
| AB 7/6086 | L H Cope | Plutonium fuel elements for advanced gas cooled reactors | 1957 July | IGR-TN/R533 (PTC/P9) |
| AB 7/6224 | L H Cope | The influence of reactor safety and health hazards on the selection of plutonium fuels for use in industrial gas cooled reactors | 1957 Nov | IGR-TN/R694 |
| AB 7/10777 | L H Cope | The extinguishing of uranium and plutonium fires | 1960 Jan | DEG Report 29(D) |
| AB 7/10846 | L H Cope | Specification for a dry powder extinguishant for uranium and plutonium fires | 1960 June | DEG Report 144(D) |
| AB 7/11718 | L H Cope and P W Jackson | Thermal conductivity of 50 volume per cent cermets of uranium dioxide and stainless steel | 1961 Jan | DEG Memo 1524(D) |
| AB 7/11725 | L H Cope | The selection of the stainless steel matrix material and the canning material for PFR cermet fuel elements | 1961 Mar | DEG Memo 1536(D) (PFRDC/FEWP/P(61)42) |
| AB 7/11806 | L H Cope | Mechanical properties of cermets of uranium dioxide and stainless steel | 1961 Mar | DEG Memo 1638(D) (PFRDC/FEWP/P(61)34) |
| AB 7/12737 | L H Cope | PFR cermet fuel element: 316L matrix and can composition limits for alloy additions and impurities | 1961 June | TRG Memo 177(D) |
| AB 7/12764 | L H Cope, A G Adwick, E R Bachelor, P W Jackson and R S Coulter | Fabrication of 40 and 50 vol % PuO2 UO2 stainless steel cermets: March to June 1961 | 1961 Aug | TRG Memo 208(D) |
| AB 7/14558 | L H Cope | A coining technique for the fabrication of medium volume cermet fuels | 1962 Apr | TRG Report 275(D) |
| AB 7/14566 | L H Cope | Physical and mechanical properties of AISI types 316 and 316L stainless steel | 1962 Aug | TRG Report 283(D) |