Alvin Weinberg Foundation
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Background
The Weinberg Foundation is a UK-based not-for-profit organisation and 'pressure group' advocating thorium nuclear energy.
Launched at a UK Parliament event in September 2011[1] it describes itself as 'dedicated to advancing the research, development and deployment of safe, clean and affordable nuclear energy technologies to combat climate change and underpin sustainable development for the world'.
People
- Baroness Bryony Worthington, Patron. Climate change policy expert and campaigner, made a Labour peer in November 2010, is Labour's shadow energy and climate change minister in the House of Lords
- Kirk Sorensen - nuclear engineer and the keynote speaker at Weinberg Foundation launch in UK Parliament
- Lawrence O'Hagan, CEO
- John Durham, Chairman
- Neil Endicot, Parliamentary Secretariat
Affiliations
- New All-Party Parliamentary Group on Thorium, created 1 March 2012 ith Baroness Worthington and Julian Huppert MP respectively as chair and vice-chair. [2]
Funding
Contact, Resources and Notes
Contact
- Website:
Resources
Notes
- ↑ Duncan Clark,Thorium advocates launch pressure group, Environment Blog, theguardian.com, 9 September 2011 21.33 EST
- ↑ New All-Party Parliamentary Group on Thorium, acc 14 August 2013
