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Melissa Jones: /* Membership */ london symposiu 2013

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Membership: london symposiu 2013

Melissa Jones at 03:50, 14 November 2012

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Rich: /* Key Personnel */

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Key Personnel

Rich: /* Central to the Clean-Energy Revolution */

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Central to the Clean-Energy Revolution

Rich: /* Nuclear Will Save Us from the Apocalypse */

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Nuclear Will Save Us from the Apocalypse

Rich: /* WNA's main messages */

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WNA's main messages

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WNA's main messages

Rich: /* Tax Exempt As a Scientific Research Organisation */

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Tax Exempt As a Scientific Research Organisation

Rich: /* The Current PR Messages */

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The Current PR Messages

Rich: /* Rebranding Nuclear */

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Rebranding Nuclear

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	In November 2012, more than 180 organisations were [[World Nuclear Association members]], according to a list on the organisation's website.<ref>[http://www.world-nuclear.org/About/members_list.aspx World Nuclear Association Membership], World Nuclear Association Website, undated, accessed 13 November 2012 </ref>		In November 2012, more than 180 organisations were [[World Nuclear Association members]], according to a list on the organisation's website.<ref>[http://www.world-nuclear.org/About/members_list.aspx World Nuclear Association Membership], World Nuclear Association Website, undated, accessed 13 November 2012 </ref>
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		+	As of September 2013 the WNA states that its membership "has grown to encompass almost every enterprise in the global nuclear industry". Its Annual WNA Symposium is "the industry's premier international meeting, attracting an attendance of over 700 leaders and specialists from more than 25 countries" as well as "also drawing increased attention from non-industry professionals who recognize nuclear power's central importance in securing our world's energy and environmental future". <ref> [http://www.wna-symposium.org/ World Nuclear Symposium], 11-13 September 2013, Central Hall Westminster, London, acc 25 Sept 2013 </ref>

	==Nuclear is 'sustainable'==		==Nuclear is 'sustainable'==

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 Others disagree. According to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) a tripling of global nuclear capacity to 1000GW would require a new Yucca-sized dump to be opened somewhere every three or four years, and even without new reactors, the US will need a second dump by 2012, if Yucca sticks to its statutory limit for waste.  <ref>Brice Smith, [http://ieer.org/resource/books/insurmountable-risks-dangers-nuclear/#download''Insurmountable Risks: The dangers of Using Nuclear Power to Combat Global Climate Change''], IEER 2006.</ref>
-==A 'Scientific Research Organisation'==
+==A 'scientific research organisation'==
 Despite its clear lobbying role, the WNA claims special tax exemptions. In its 2005 accounts, the WNA stated: “Agreement has been reached with the UK Inland Revenue Department for the World Nuclear Association, as a scientific research organization, to be exempt from tax as it meets the requirements of Section 508 (i) of the Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988". <ref>World Nuclear Association, ''Annual Report and Accounts 2005'', London.</ref>
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 In 2006, [[John Ritch]] held a secret meeting with [[Tony Blair]]'s top energy advisor [[Geoffrey Norris]] about nuclear energy.<ref>Andy Rowell and Richard Cookson, [http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/secret-nuclear-talks-held-at-no-10-769989.html Secret nuclear talks held at No 10], ''The Independent'', 13 January 2008</ref>
-==Key Personnel==
+==Key personnel==
 * Acting Director General: [[Stephen Kidd]]
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 WNA's long-standing Director General [[John Ritch]] announced his retirement in April 2012.<ref>[http://www.intersectinsight.com/2012/04/john-ritch-to-retire-from-wna/ John Ritch to retire from WNA], Intersect Insight website, 23 April 2012</ref>
-===Board Members===
+===Board members===
 *Chairman: [[Tim Gitzel]], President & CEO, [[Cameco]]
 *Vice-Chairman: [[Chris Crane]], President & CEO, [[Exelon]]

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 * Acting Director General: [[Stephen Kidd]]
 * Director General Designate: [[Agneta Rising]], former vice president of environment at [[Vattenfall]].
-* Director of Public Communications: Ian Hore-Lacy. Author of the book "Nuclear Energy in the 21st Century: World Nuclear Association", published in 2006, whose foreward is written by [[Patrick Moore]].<ref>[http://www.amazon.com/Nuclear-Energy-21st-Century-Association/dp/0123736226 Amazon website]</ref>
+* Director of Public Communications: [[Ian Hore-Lacy]]. Author of the book "Nuclear Energy in the 21st Century: World Nuclear Association", published in 2006, whose foreward is written by [[Patrick Moore]].<ref>[http://www.amazon.com/Nuclear-Energy-21st-Century-Association/dp/0123736226 Amazon website]</ref>
 WNA's long-standing Director General [[John Ritch]] announced his retirement in April 2012.<ref>[http://www.intersectinsight.com/2012/04/john-ritch-to-retire-from-wna/ John Ritch to retire from WNA], Intersect Insight website, 23 April 2012</ref>

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 ==== Central to the Clean-Energy Revolution====
-To avoid this catastrophy, we need “a worldwide transformation to clean forms of energy", Ritch added, attempting to position nuclear to the centre of the “clean energy” debate. He said: “Humankind cannot conceivably achieve a global clean-energy revolution without a huge expansion of nuclear power – to generate electricity, to produce hydrogen and battery power for tomorrow’s vehicles, and to desalinate seawater in response to the world’s rapidly emerging fresh-water crisis”.
+To avoid this catastrophe, we need “a worldwide transformation to clean forms of energy", Ritch added, attempting to position nuclear to the centre of the “clean energy” debate. He said: “Humankind cannot conceivably achieve a global clean-energy revolution without a huge expansion of nuclear power – to generate electricity, to produce hydrogen and battery power for tomorrow’s vehicles, and to desalinate seawater in response to the world’s rapidly emerging fresh-water crisis”.
 ====A 20-fold Expansion of Nuclear====

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 Ritch said that nuclear power was the only way to fuel fast-developing nations without big rises in greenhouse gases. He said: "Greenhouse gas emissions, if continued at the present massive scale, will yield consequences that are – quite literally – apocalyptic: increasingly radical temperature changes, a worldwide upsurge in violent weather events, widespread drought, flooding, wildfires, famine, species extinction, rising sea levels, mass migration and epidemic disease that will leave no country untouched".
-He finished by saying that "If these predictions hold true, the combined effect would be the death of not just millions but of billions of people – and the destruction of much of civilization on all continents”.
+He finished by saying: "If these predictions hold true, the combined effect would be the death of not just millions but of billions of people – and the destruction of much of civilization on all continents”.
 ==== Central to the Clean-Energy Revolution====

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 ==WNA's main messages==
-A speech given by Ritch in 2006 contained many of the main messages that the WNA had been pushing since 2001.<ref>John Ritch, [http://www.world-nuclear.org/John_Ritch_speeches/John_Ritch_sydney161006.html ''Accelerating the Global Nuclear Renaissance: A Human and Environmental Imperative''], 15th Pacific Basin Nuclear Conference, Sydney, 16 October 2006.</ref>
+A speech given by Ritch in 2006 contained many of the messages that the WNA had been pushing since 2001.<ref>John Ritch, [http://www.world-nuclear.org/John_Ritch_speeches/John_Ritch_sydney161006.html ''Accelerating the Global Nuclear Renaissance: A Human and Environmental Imperative''], 15th Pacific Basin Nuclear Conference, Sydney, 16 October 2006.</ref>
 ====Nuclear Will Save Us from the Apocalyspe====

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 Having made the case for nuclear, the WNA then asked for subsidies. In a speech in Paris in 2005, Ritch said: "As a step toward energy independence and as an urgent environmental imperative, it is essential that national governments take the steps necessary to incentivise immediate nuclear investments." He added that "this pump-priming can be achieved by a temporary production subsidy, by absorbing some first-of-a-kind engineering costs." <ref>Andrew Murray-Watson, "The Nuclear Option," ''The Sunday Telegraph'', 1 May, 2005, p6.</ref>
-==The Current PR Messages==
+==WNA's main messages==
+A speech given by Ritch in 2006 contained many of the main messages that the WNA had been pushing since 2001.<ref>John Ritch, [http://www.world-nuclear.org/John_Ritch_speeches/John_Ritch_sydney161006.html ''Accelerating the Global Nuclear Renaissance: A Human and Environmental Imperative''], 15th Pacific Basin Nuclear Conference, Sydney, 16 October 2006.</ref>
 ====Nuclear Will Save Us from the Apocalyspe====
+Ritch said that nuclear power was the only way to fuel fast-developing nations without big rises in greenhouse gases. He said: "Greenhouse gas emissions, if continued at the present massive scale, will yield consequences that are – quite literally – apocalyptic: increasingly radical temperature changes, a worldwide upsurge in violent weather events, widespread drought, flooding, wildfires, famine, species extinction, rising sea levels, mass migration and epidemic disease that will leave no country untouched".
 He finished by saying that "If these predictions hold true, the combined effect would be the death of not just millions but of billions of people – and the destruction of much of civilization on all continents”.
 ==== Central to the Clean-Energy Revolution====
-To avoid this catastrophie, we need “a worldwide transformation to clean forms of energy”. Ritch continued to try and reposition nuclear to the centre of the “clean energy” debate, continuing the industry campaign to portray it as clean and green.
+====A 20-fold Expansion of Nuclear====
+Ritch forecast a major expansion of nuclear power. He said: “We will be moving... to a world in the next 25 years in which we have more than 1,000 reactors, and by mid-century I would expect we would have 2,000 to 3,000 reactors in the world."  He concluded that by the end of the century, a 20-fold increase on today's numbers would be both feasible and desirable.
 ====Nuclear Facilities are not a Proliferation Issue ====
+He said that concerns over nuclear proliferation should not deter further development of civilian reactors. "The nuclear proliferation danger comes not from the existence of nuclear facilities, but from the intentions of those who possess them," he said. "The intent of an Iran or a North Korea is a geopolitical variable virtually independent of whether countries like Brazil, Canada, South Africa, or Australia develop additional nuclear facilities."
 ====More subsidies====
 Despite the fact nuclear has received global subsidies of around $1 trillion over the past 50 years, Ritch re-iterated the need for the nuclear renaissance to be “pump-primed” with more taxpayers money. He said governments and international institutions should directly support nuclear investment with even more subsidies. “This economic aid will be the most cost-effective in history if it helps to prevent the globally destructive growth in greenhouse emissions that might otherwise occur in the developing world”.
 ==== No Time to Waste ====
-According to Ritch, nuclear waste will not be a problem compared with carbon emissions: "The small volume and manageability of nuclear waste represent distinct environmental assets in a world where the continuing use of our atmosphere as a carbon dumpsite is fast carrying us toward global catastrophe".
+He said if we generated all the world’s energy from reactors we would create "an amount of high-level nuclear waste no greater than the amount of carbon waste that today’s power plants spew into Earth’s atmosphere every four minutes, around the clock".
 Others disagree. According to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) a tripling of global nuclear capacity to 1000GW would require a new Yucca-sized dump to be opened somewhere every three or four years, and even without new reactors, the US will need a second dump by 2012, if Yucca sticks to its statutory limit for waste.  <ref>Brice Smith, [http://ieer.org/resource/books/insurmountable-risks-dangers-nuclear/#download''Insurmountable Risks: The dangers of Using Nuclear Power to Combat Global Climate Change''], IEER 2006.</ref>

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	The WNA was formerly known as the [[Uranium Institute]], which looked after the interests of uranium producers. It changed its name in 2001 because its then Director General, [[John Ritch]] wanted the organisation to be "more proactive" and have more "clout". <ref>Michael Knapik, "UI to be Named World Nuclear Association; Spot U Price in US Nears $9/LB, Cis Price Up", ''Nuclear Fuel'', Vol 26, No10, 14 May, 2001, p. 2.</ref> Ritch said the WNA's objective was to "rachet up" the WNA's traditional promotional role to "a much higher level" of power. <ref>Ann MacLachlan, "WNA Raises Nuclear's Voice, Own Profile With New Plans", ''Nucleonics Week'', Vol42, No37, 13 September, 2001, p. 8.</ref>		The WNA was formerly known as the [[Uranium Institute]], which looked after the interests of uranium producers. It changed its name in 2001 because its then Director General, [[John Ritch]] wanted the organisation to be "more proactive" and have more "clout". <ref>Michael Knapik, "UI to be Named World Nuclear Association; Spot U Price in US Nears $9/LB, Cis Price Up", ''Nuclear Fuel'', Vol 26, No10, 14 May, 2001, p. 2.</ref> Ritch said the WNA's objective was to "rachet up" the WNA's traditional promotional role to "a much higher level" of power. <ref>Ann MacLachlan, "WNA Raises Nuclear's Voice, Own Profile With New Plans", ''Nucleonics Week'', Vol42, No37, 13 September, 2001, p. 8.</ref>