Nuclear spin

Individuals

The Top Ten Individuals:

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• Lord John Birt – special advisor to Tony Blair

• Ian Fells – discredited government advisor

• Bernard Ingham

• James Lovelock – supposed green guru

• Geoffrey Norris – special advisor to Tony Blair

• Brian Wilson - ex-Energy Minister

• David King - The government's chief scientist

• John Huttton - Work and Pensions Secretary - Nuclear champion. MP for Barrow-in-Furness where Trident submarines were built

• Jamie Reed - the former BNFL press officer who replaced “nuclear Jackâ€? Cunningham as the MP for Copeland.

The media

Simon Jenkins – Guardian Columnist

Organisations

• British Nuclear Energy Society,

• Supporters of Nuclear Energy

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

• Department of Trade and Industry

• Energy Institute

• Royal Institute of International Affairs

• Nuclear Decommissioning Authority - The non-departmental public body that has been created to oversee Britain's "nuclear legacy". To spin their case, the NDA has brought in high profile PR experts who are used to fighting controversial schemes. The NDA has hired Jon Phillips, the ex-head of communications for Heathrow Airport be be its head of Comms. Phillips led BAA's successful campaign for a fifth terminal at Heathrow and is reported to be earning £70,000 to push the pro-nuclear spin. He is heading a ten person team based in London.

The NDA also has a PR team based in Cumbria headed by Bill Hamilton ex- director at Grayling and public affairs director at Safeway, and recently group public affairs director for Transport for London.(Ravi Chandiramani (2005) Lib Dem Election Chief Nets Tfl Job, PR Week, 12 August, p1

The NDA has hired Bell Pottinger Communications to run its PR led by Chime PR division chairman Kevin Murray. Also involved are Bell Pottinger Public Affairs director Tim Walker and Corporate & Financial director Mark Herbert. The account is said to be worth £100,000 (Ravi Chandiramani (2005) Nuclear Clean-Up Body Brings In Bell Pottinger, PR Week, 8 July, p2

• United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority has hired Grayling Political Strategy

• Energy Industries Club

• Nirex has hired Promise PR and Good Relations

• Royal Society

• The Royal Academy of Engineering

• The Institution of Civil Engineers

• 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

Companies

• British Nuclear Fuels Limited

• AMEC

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