Nuclear Spin

Individuals

• Lord John Birt – Until he resigned as Blair's "Blue Skies" advisor in December 2005, Birt was said to have the close ear of the Prime Minister. He was also pro-nuclear. His influence is now on the wane as he has left Downing Street to join Terra Firma, the private equity firm founded by City financier Guy Hands.
• Yvette Cooper - wife of Ed Balls - whose father is Tony Cooper - chair of the Nuclear Industry Association until Dec 2004 and now 'represents the interests of west cumbria' on the NDA
• Philip Dewhurst
• Ian Fells – discredited government advisor
• John Hutton - Work and Pensions Secretary - Nuclear champion. MP for Barrow-in-Furness where Trident submarines were built
• Bernard Ingham
• Lord Jenkin who is very pro nuclear
• David King - The government's chief scientist
• James Lovelock
• Geoffrey Norris – special advisor to Tony Blair
• Jamie Reed - the former BNFL press officer who replaced “nuclear Jackâ€? Cunningham as the MP for Copeland.
• Brian Wilson - ex-Energy Minister

Maybes:

• Grace McGlynn
• Greg Butler - both ex-BNFL (Butler still gets £80,000 a year from BNFL) who are on IDM - and who have both done technical papers for NNC for CORWM.
• Bob Church - until recently AMEC now BNFL
• Lord Sainsbury
• Jack Cunningham

The media

• Simon Jenkins – Guardian Columnist

• Jason Nisse journalist with the IOS - on the board of Nirex........and declared in favour of nuclear dumping

Organisations

• British Nuclear Energy Society,

• The Committee for Radioactive Waste Management (CoRWM) has appointed Luther Pendragon to help it reassure people that nuclear waste is being dealt with (D. Bloch (2005) Luther Pendragon Takes On Nuclear Waste Brief, PR Week, 12 August, p8).

• Department of Trade and Industry

• Energy Industries Club

• Energy Institute

• The Institution of Civil Engineers

• Nirex has hired Promise PR and Good Relations

• Nuclear Decommissioning Authority

• Nuclear Industry Association - The chair of the NIA is BNFL group corporate affairs director Philip Dewhurst.

• Royal Institute of International Affairs

• The Royal Academy of Engineering

• Royal Society

• Supporters of Nuclear Energy

• United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority has hired Grayling Political Strategy

• World Nuclear Association

Companies

• AMEC

• Areva

• British Nuclear Fuels Limited and its US subsidiary:

• British Energy has appointed Craig Stevenson, formerly Monsanto's top UK spin doctor, as head of government affairs. Also hired Financial Dynamics

• EDF

• Electricite de France

• Eon

• RWE

• Westinghouse

PR and Lobbying firms

• Financial Dynamics
• Good Relations
• Grayling Political Strategy
• Luther Pendragon
• PR21 now known as Zeno
• Promise PR
• Weber Shandwick

Web Companies

• Sticky New Media - Web Design Company working for both the Nuclear Industry Association and XXXX

Unions

• GMB

• Prospect

The city

• Rothschild