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.
• Tony Blair and Number 10
• Yvette Cooper - wife of Ed Balls - whose father is Tony Cooper - chair of the Nuclear Industry Association until Dec 2004 and now 'represents the interests of west cumbria' on the NDA
• Philip Dewhurst
• Ian Fells – discredited government advisor
• John Hutton - Work and Pensions Secretary - Nuclear champion. MP for Barrow-in-Furness where Trident submarines were built
• Bernard Ingham
• Lord Jenkin who is very pro nuclear
• Alan Johnson
• David King - The government's chief scientist
• James Lovelock
• Jack McConnell
• Geoffrey Norris – special advisor to Tony Blair
• Jamie Reed - the former BNFL press officer who replaced “nuclear Jackâ€? Cunningham as the MP for Copeland.
• Brian Wilson - ex-Energy Minister

Maybes:

• Grace McGlynn
• Gregg Butler
• Bob Church - until recently AMEC now BNFL
• Lord Sainsbury
• Jack Cunningham

How the Different Newspapers Stack Up

• For

- The Times - Argues that "nuclear energy is necessary to bridge Britain’s energy gap" [1]

• Against

Individual Columnists

• Simon Jenkins – Guardian Columnist

• Jason Nisse journalist with the IOS - on the board of Nirex........and declared in favour of nuclear dumping

Organisations

• All-Party Parliamentary Group on Nuclear Energy

• British Nuclear Energy Society

• The Committee for Radioactive Waste Management

• Department of Trade and Industry

• Energy Industries Club

• Energy Institute

• The Institution of Civil Engineers

• Nirex

• Nuclear Decommissioning Authority

• Nuclear Industry Association

• Royal Institute of International Affairs

• The Royal Academy of Engineering

• Royal Society

• Supporters of Nuclear Energy

• United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority has hired Grayling Political Strategy

• World Nuclear Association

Companies

• AMEC

• Areva

• British Nuclear Fuels Limited and its US subsidiary:

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

• EDF

• Electricite de France

• Eon

• General Electric

• RWE

• Westinghouse

PR, Lobbying and Consultancy firms

• Bell Pottinger
• Connect
• ERM
• Facilitating Change Limited
• Financial Dynamics
• Fleishman Hillard - need to add scottish Nirex stuff to their profile although it is not linking back to nirex
• ForthRoad Limited
• The Future Foundation
• Good Relations
• Grayling Political Strategy
• Integrated Decision Management
• International Futures Forum - Praxis
• Kingsmead Communications Limited
• Luther Pendragon
• MORI
• PR21 now known as Zeno
• Promise PR
• Weber Shandwick
• Women's Insitute

Web Companies

• Sticky New Media - Web Design Company working for both the Nuclear Industry Association and XXXX

• Activate Media - Web design company that runs the pro-nuclear Energy Choices website [2] run by the Nuclear Industry Association

Unions

• GMB

• Prospect

The city

• Rothschild