Nuclear Spin

Welcome to the Nuclearspin website.

Background information on Nuclear Spin

• What is Nuclear Spin

• Who are the People Behind Nuclear Spin?

• Who funds Nuclear Spin?

• A Guide to Referencing

Reference template

When you put in a reference we are going to start using references and citations. You generate a reference using eg. {{ref|guardianMacalister}}, and you label the corresponding citation using {{note|guardianMacalister}}. Readers can see where a given citation is referenced in the article by clicking the up-arrow link next to it. Here's an example:

In February 2006 The Guardian reported how "A small group of American companies such as Bechtel and Fluor look set to grab the lion's share of a £50bn British nuclear clean-up programme which should get the green light within weeks but take decades to complete. [1] External Links ^Terry Macalister, "Engineers in Line for jobs until 2080 on Britain's Nuclear Clean-up", The Guardian, February 16, 2005.

Individuals

• Lord John Birt - Blair's ex-advisor
• Tony Blair and The Cabinet
• Gregg Butler - A consultant still paid by BNFL
• Yvette Cooper The Minister with a nuclear family
• Jack Cunningham - "Nuclear" Jack
• Roger Ewart-Smith - The pro-nuclear banker
• Philip Dewhurst - A key nuclear spin doctor
• Thomas Docherty - Long-term nuclear lobbyist with political ambitions
• Ian Fells – The Government advisor whose credibility has been questioned
• Dieter Helm - An influential advisor who questions renewables
• John Hutton - Work and Pensions Secretary
• Bernard Ingham - A long-standing pro-nuke and anti-wind campaigner
• Sue Ion - BNFL and BNES
• Lord Jenkin - Long-term nuclear supporter
• Alan Johnson - Government Minister - whose side of the fence is he on?
• David King - The government's chief scientist who sees nukes as the answer to climate change
• James Lovelock - The pro-nuke green guru
• Robert May - Ex-head of the Royal Society
• Jack McConnell - Scottish First Minister - likely to toe the political line.
• Grace McGlynn - A Pro-Nuke Consultant
• Sir Donald Miller - Ex-Scottish Power - Anti-wind and pro-Nuke
• David Mundell - The MP fighting at Westminster for nukes in Scotland
• Elaine Murray - The MSP fighting for nukes at Holyrood
• Geoffrey Norris – a key special advisor to Tony Blair
• Keith Parker - the ex-civil servant who saw the general election as an "opportunity"
• Jamie Reed - the former BNFL press officer who is now an MP
• Willy Rickett - Director General of the DTI's Energy Group
• Professor Phil Thomas - From City University - but how independent?
• Lord David Sainsbury
• Malcolm Wicks - The Energy Minister
• Brian Wilson - ex-Energy Minister who now works for the nuclear industry
• Lisa Woolhouse- the so-called "independent advisor"
• Terry Wynn - Pro-Nuclear MEP

The Media

How the Different Newspapers Stack Up

Individual Columnists

• Simon Jenkins

• Jason Nisse

• Max Hastings

Organisations

• All-Party Parliamentary Group on Nuclear Energy

• British Nuclear Energy Society

• Cross Party Group on the Civil Nuclear Industry

• The Committee for Radioactive Waste Management

• Department of Trade and Industry

• Energy Industries Club

• Energy Institute

• Energy Research Partnership

• European Atomic Forum (FORATOM)

• Forum for the Future of Nuclear Energy at the European Parliament

• 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 – holding company for British Nuclear Group, Nexia Solutions and Westinghouse. It also has a US subsidiary:

• British Energy

• EDF whose Head of Press in the UK is Chancellor Gordon Brown's younger brother

• Eon

• General Electric

• RWE

PR, Lobbying and Consultancy firms

• Bell Pottinger
• 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
• PR21 now known as Zeno
• Promise PR
• Strategic Awareness
• Weber Shandwick

City Firms

• Rothschild

Unions

• nUKlear21

• Amicus

• GMB

• Prospect

• TGWU

• TUC

• UCATT

Web Companies

• Sticky New Media - Web Design Company

• Activate Media

• Forepoint