Jason Nisse

Biography

Jason Nisse has been Business Editor of The Independent since 2001. A journalist for nearly 20 years, he has written on the business of sport, the City, banking, media and international business.

He has a track record of stories about the nuclear industry, from exposing a secret Government plan to bail out the beleaguered nuclear company British Energy, to revealing that BNFL has been shooting and secretly storing nuclear-contaminated seagulls at Sellafield. [Jason Nisse, ‘Ministers in secret plan to bail out nuclear giant’, Independent on Sunday, 25 August 2002] [Jason Nisse, ‘Sellafield struggles with radioactive gulls’, Independent on Sunday, 11 September 2005]

Links with nuclear industry

Nisse is a non-executive director of NIREX, the government-owned company that advises on options for the long-term disposal of radioactive materials in the UK. He was appointed on 12 August 2005. [1] [2]

Nisse announced the appointment in the Independent on Sunday

“Last week, I became a non-executive director of Nirex, the Government- owned body charged with building a repository to store nuclear waste. Just to put it in context, no decision has been made to build a repository, but a recommendation is due to come next year from the Committee on Radioactive Waste Management, which could lead to a repository being built. Before accepting this post, both I and the editors and managers here considered whether this might cause a conflict of interest. However, as I have long held the view that a repository for nuclear waste needs to be built and have said so in these pages, we felt the risk was minimal. If serious conflicts do occur, my primary duty is to the readers of The Independent on Sunday, and I will stand down from Nirex.� [Jason Nisse, ‘Business View’, Independent on Sunday, 4 September 2005].