Nirex - Revision history

Melissa Jones: /* Background */

2012-06-21T16:18:05Z

Background

Melissa Jones: typo

2012-06-21T16:17:11Z

typo

Melissa Jones: /* Key Personnel */ former staff

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Key Personnel: former staff

Melissa Jones: updating - history para ported from wikipedia to be edited later...

2012-06-21T16:08:40Z

updating - history para ported from wikipedia to be edited later...

Claire Robinson: /* Oops, Maybe They Didn't */

2009-03-06T21:07:36Z

Oops, Maybe They Didn't

Kyle McCallum at 17:16, 6 March 2009

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Kyle McCallum at 17:15, 6 March 2009

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Kyle McCallum at 17:12, 6 March 2009

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Kyle McCallum at 17:09, 6 March 2009

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Kyle McCallum at 17:07, 6 March 2009

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 Nirex was a government-controlled agency established in 1980 to oversee the storage of radioactive waste. It was charged with finding a long-term repository for the waste that will remain deadly for millions of years.
-Originally known as the Nuclear Industry Radioactive Waste Executive, it became the limited company United Kingdom Nirex Limited in 1985. The ownership of Nirex was transferred from the nuclear industry to the UK Government departments [[DEFRA]] and [[DTI]] in April 2005, and then to the UK's Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) in November 2006. Nirex's staff and functions were integrated into the NDA in April 2007, at which point Nirex ceased trading as a separate entity. Nirex's role continues through the activities of the Radioactive Waste Management Directorate of the NDA.
+Originally known as the Nuclear Industry Radioactive Waste Executive, it became the limited company United Kingdom Nirex Limited in 1985. The ownership of Nirex was transferred from the nuclear industry to the UK Government departments [[DEFRA]] and [[DTI]] in April 2005, and then to the UK's [[Nuclear Decommissioning Authority]] (NDA) in November 2006. Nirex's staff and functions were integrated into the NDA in April 2007, at which point Nirex ceased trading as a separate entity.
 ==Classic Public Relations Techniques Used to Spin the Case for Nuclear==

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-*[[Harry Hudson]] - former PR manager for Nirex,  moved to [[Good Issues Communications]] in 2001
+*[[Harry Hudson]] - former PR manager for Nirex,  moved to [[Green Issues Communications]] in 2001
 ==Corporate memberships==

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 ==Background==
-Nirex is a government-controlled agency established in 1980 to oversee the storage of radioactive waste. It is charged with finding a long-term repository for the waste which will remain deadly for millions of years.
+Nirex was a government-controlled agency established in 1980 to oversee the storage of radioactive waste. It was charged with finding a long-term repository for the waste that will remain deadly for millions of years.
 ==Classic Public Relations Techniques Used to Spin the Case for Nuclear==
-Nuclear Spin has acquired a Nirex public relations and media strategy document from October 2004. Many of the strategies are classic PR techniques. In the Section &#39;the Way Forward,&#39; Nirex outlines a new slogan:
+Nuclear Spin obtained a Nirex public relations and media strategy document from October 2004. Many of the strategies are classic PR techniques. In the Section &#39;the Way Forward,&#39; Nirex outlines a new slogan:
 ===A New Slogan===

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 == Oops, Maybe They Didn't ==
-When challenged by Greenpeace to provide evidence that the environmental organisation had requested Nirex change its name, Daivd Wild replied that "an initial search of our records reveals no record of a written request from Greenpeace". <ref>David Wild, [http://www.spinprofiles.org/images/3/32/Nirex.PDF Letter to Jean McSorley], 10 April, 2006.</ref>
+When challenged by Greenpeace to provide evidence that the environmental organisation had requested Nirex change its name, David Wild replied that "an initial search of our records reveals no record of a written request from Greenpeace". <ref>David Wild, [http://www.spinprofiles.org/images/3/32/Nirex.PDF Letter to Jean McSorley], 10 April, 2006.</ref>
 ==Suppressing information==

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 *[[Women's Insitute]] - To participate in a workshop to discuss radioactive waste management - £5,000 <ref>David Wild, [http://www.spinprofiles.org/images/9/94/Jean.PDF  Freedom of Information Request, Letter to Jean McSorley, Senior Advisor to Greenpeace UK], 15 July, 2005.</ref>
-[[Good Relations]] list Nirex as a client on its website.<ref>[http://www.goodrelations.co.uk/clients.asp?id=71]</ref> According to Good Relations, "it has advised Nirex, the UK&#39;s nuclear waste agency, during the last five years as it moved to become an independent body. This has been a highly sensitive project requiring a co-ordinated media, stakeholder and political communications strategy. It has involved working closely with a number of Government departments including the [[MoD]] (in particular on the ISOLUS nuclear submarine project); [[DTI]], [[Defra]] and [[No10]].
+[[Good Relations]] list Nirex as a client on its website.<ref>[http://www.goodrelations.co.uk/clients.asp?id=71 Good Relations website]</ref> According to Good Relations, "it has advised Nirex, the UK&#39;s nuclear waste agency, during the last five years as it moved to become an independent body. This has been a highly sensitive project requiring a co-ordinated media, stakeholder and political communications strategy. It has involved working closely with a number of Government departments including the [[MoD]] (in particular on the ISOLUS nuclear submarine project); [[DTI]], [[Defra]] and [[No10]].
 ==Key Personnel==

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 ==Suppressing information==
-According to Greenpeace, Nirex refused to release a list of some 537 areas identified as potential nuclear dump sites in the UK, despite repeated requests to do so under the Freedom of Information Act. When it finally acquiesced, Greenpeace says, Nirex "admitted it withheld releasing the dump-site list until after the May 2005 General Election. It admitted it held on to the list in order to avoid any politicians being able to make statements of opposition to a dump site in their area during the election. Nirex denied people the opportunity to discuss this issue with prospective MPs - which may have influenced how they voted. It is also suspected that media debate on the prospects of new reactors - which are heavily dependent on a solution to being found to nuclear waste if they are to get the go-ahead - coloured NIREX's view on whether or not to publish the list before the election." <ref>[http://www.greenpeace.org.uk/contentlookup.cfm?CFID=4078741&CFTOKEN=32251312&ucidparam=20050826173313&MenuPoint=D-E-F]</ref>
+According to Greenpeace, Nirex refused to release a list of some 537 areas identified as potential nuclear dump sites in the UK, despite repeated requests to do so under the Freedom of Information Act. When it finally acquiesced, Greenpeace says, Nirex "admitted it withheld releasing the dump-site list until after the May 2005 General Election. It admitted it held on to the list in order to avoid any politicians being able to make statements of opposition to a dump site in their area during the election. Nirex denied people the opportunity to discuss this issue with prospective MPs - which may have influenced how they voted. It is also suspected that media debate on the prospects of new reactors - which are heavily dependent on a solution to being found to nuclear waste if they are to get the go-ahead - coloured NIREX's view on whether or not to publish the list before the election." <ref>[http://www.greenpeace.org.uk/contentlookup.cfm?CFID=4078741&CFTOKEN=32251312&ucidparam=20050826173313&MenuPoint=D-E-F Greenpeace website]</ref>
 ==Sexing up Nukes==

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 ==Sexing up Nukes==
-Nirex has also been accused of "sexing up" a report on nuclear dumping, according to ''The Guardian''.<ref>[http://society.guardian.co.uk/societyguardian/story/0,,1683141,00.html]</ref> The paper had obtained a leaked copy of an [[Environment Agency]] document sent to Ministers that concluded "Nirex present an overly optimistic view," of dumping. Nirex presented arguments in which the agency says: "The positive arguments are given prominence and corresponding negative arguments are not examined." The papers notes that "[c]hief among the concerns is that the proposed concrete and steel containers used to bury waste could leak within 500 years. Despite that, the agency says the report has not identified any 'major' issues that would scupper such an underground store and declares the concept 'viable'.
+Nirex has also been accused of "sexing up" a report on nuclear dumping, according to ''The Guardian''.<ref>[http://society.guardian.co.uk/societyguardian/story/0,,1683141,00.html David Adam, "Eco soundings", ''The Guardian'', January 11, 2006]</ref> The paper had obtained a leaked copy of an [[Environment Agency]] document sent to Ministers that concluded "Nirex present an overly optimistic view," of dumping. Nirex presented arguments in which the agency says: "The positive arguments are given prominence and corresponding negative arguments are not examined." The papers notes that "[c]hief among the concerns is that the proposed concrete and steel containers used to bury waste could leak within 500 years. Despite that, the agency says the report has not identified any 'major' issues that would scupper such an underground store and declares the concept 'viable'.
 ==Nuclear Spinners Working for Nirex==

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 *[[ERM]] - To undertake an asssement of stakeholder views of Nirex - £32,600
 *[[MORI]] - To undertake a public opinion survey - £30,000 - due to be repeated in 2005/06
-*[[Women's Insitute]] - To participate in a workshop to discuss radioactive waste management - £5,000 {{ref|jean}}
+*[[Women's Insitute]] - To participate in a workshop to discuss radioactive waste management - £5,000 <ref>David Wild, [http://www.spinprofiles.org/images/9/94/Jean.PDF  Freedom of Information Request, Letter to Jean McSorley, Senior Advisor to Greenpeace UK], 15 July, 2005.</ref>
 [[Good Relations]] list Nirex as a client on its website.<ref>[http://www.goodrelations.co.uk/clients.asp?id=71]</ref> According to Good Relations, "it has advised Nirex, the UK&#39;s nuclear waste agency, during the last five years as it moved to become an independent body. This has been a highly sensitive project requiring a co-ordinated media, stakeholder and political communications strategy. It has involved working closely with a number of Government departments including the [[MoD]] (in particular on the ISOLUS nuclear submarine project); [[DTI]], [[Defra]] and [[No10]].
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 [[Category:Pro-nuclear organisations]]
 [[Category:Nuclear Spin]]

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-* {{note|jean}} David Wild, [http://www.spinprofiles.org/images/9/94/Jean.PDF  Freedom of Information Request, Letter to Jean McSorley, Senior Advisor to Greenpeace UK], July 15, 2005.
+* {{note|jean}} David Wild, [http://www.spinprofiles.org/images/9/94/Jean.PDF  Freedom of Information Request, Letter to Jean McSorley, Senior Advisor to Greenpeace UK], 15 July, 2005.
 [[Category:Pro-nuclear organisations]]
 [[Category:Nuclear Spin]]