Nuclear spin

Individuals

• Lord John Birt – special advisor to Tony Blair
• Jack Cunningham
• 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

• 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