Alvin Weinberg Foundation

This article is part of the Nuclear Spin project of Spinwatch.

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 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. He is the primary contact and coordinator of the UK Parliament’s Thorium Energy All Party Group (APPG). He has worked in UK and EU energy policy for the last six years.
• Mark Halper, Blogger in residence. Halper is the Foundation's blogger in residence and is a UK-based freelance journalist 'who writes about everything from media moguls to subatomic particles'.

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.

Contact, Resources and Notes

Contact

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