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| − | <center>'''Welcome to the Nuclearspin website'''</center>
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| − | On 23 January 2006, the British government officially launched a 12 week consultation exercise on Britain's energy needs entitled: "Our Energy Challenge: securing clean, affordable energy for the long term". That review officially ended in April, with the government making an official decision on whether to commission a new generation of nuclear power plants by the summer.
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| − | However all the indications are that Tony Blair has made his mind up. In November 2005, Blair was said to be already 'convinced' of the pro-nuclear argument. Some two months before, Blair convened a secret meeting at Chequers where informed sources have said that nuclear was given the green light.
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| − | Because of Blair's conversion to the nuclear cause as well the pro-nuclear bias of the Cabinet, the Energy Review is seen by some as a cynical PR exercise by the government that gives the appearance of a public debate, whilst the decision is already made up. To others the public consultation exercise is a genuine public debate.
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| − | Whatever the case, the pro-nuclear lobby is working vehemently behind the scenes to secure a new generation of nuclear power stations. This year is the twentieth anniversary of the accident at Chernobyl, which effectively killed off nuclear power in Europe for a generation. Now the twin concerns of energy security and climate change have given nuclear a new political lease of life, undreamed of only a few years ago by its most ardent supporters.
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| − | The Nuclear Spin website is designed to help people find out more about the key pro-nuclear advocates in the UK who are pushing for a resumption of nuclear power. It documents some of the public relations tactics being used by the industry to fool the public into believing that Britain's future is nuclear.
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| − | We hope you enjoy it. If you want to get involved please see the menus on the left hand column.
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| − | ===NuclearSpin in the news===
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| − | So far documents from Nuclear Spin have been covered in:
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| − | * [http://www.guardian.co.uk/nuclear/article/0,,1765925,00.html ''The Guardian''];
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| − | * [http://www.robedwards.info/2006/05/from_sunday_her.html#more ''The Sunday Herald''];
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| − | * [http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2090-2169217.html ''The Sunday Times'']
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| − | * [http://venus.opendemocracy.net/t/2959/74001/1791/0/ Open Democracy]
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| − | * BBC Newsnight Scotland, May 17 2006.
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| − | '''Get the latest news''' on the Nuclear push at the Spinwatch [http://www.spinwatch.org/modules.php?name=News&new_topic=7 Nuclear news page]
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| − | [http://www.nuclearspin.org/index.php/Category:Pro-nuclear_individuals '''Individuals''']
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| − | [http://www.nuclearspin.org/index.php/Category:Pro-nuclear_organisations '''Organisations''']
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| − | [http://www.nuclearspin.org/index.php/Category:Media_Spin_on_Nuclear '''The Media''']
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| − | [http://www.nuclearspin.org/index.php/Category:Pro-nuclear_columnists '''Individual Columnists''']
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| − | [http://www.nuclearspin.org/index.php/Category:Civil_nuclear_industry '''Companies''']
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| − | [http://www.nuclearspin.org/index.php/Category:Nuclear_PR%2C_lobbying_and_consultancy_firms '''PR, Lobbying and Consultancy firms''']
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| − | [http://www.nuclearspin.org/index.php/Category:Pro-nuclear_city_firms '''City Firms''']
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| − | [http://www.nuclearspin.org/index.php/Category:Nuclear_spin_-_trade_unions '''Unions''']
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| − | [http://www.nuclearspin.org/index.php/Category:Web_companies_working_for_the_nuclear_lobby '''Web Companies''']
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