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.
• Jack Cunningham
• Ian Fells – discredited government advisor
• Bernard Ingham
• James Lovelock
• Geoffrey Norris – special advisor to Tony Blair
• Brian Wilson - ex-Energy Minister
• Sir 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 MP - the former BNFL press officer who replaced “nuclear Jackâ€? Cunningham as the MP for Copeland.
• Lord Sainsbury

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

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