Nuclear spin
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Individuals
- Lord John Birt – Until he resigned as Blair's "Blue Skies" advisor in December 2005, Birt was said to have the close ear of the Prime Minister. He was also pro-nuclear. His influence is now on the wane as he has left Downing Street to join Terra Firma, the private equity firm founded by City financier Guy Hands.
- Jack Cunningham
- Ian Fells – discredited government advisor
- Bernard Ingham
- James Lovelock
- Geoffrey Norris – special advisor to Tony Blair
- Brian Wilson - ex-Energy Minister
- Sir David King - The government's chief scientist
- John Huttton - Work and Pensions Secretary - Nuclear champion. MP for Barrow-in-Furness where Trident submarines were built
- Jamie Reed - the former BNFL press officer who replaced “nuclear Jack� Cunningham as the MP for Copeland.
- Lord Sainsbury
Maybes: Grace McGlynn Greg Butler - both ex-BNFL (Butler still gets £80,000 a year from BNFL) who are on IDM - and who have both done technical papers for NNC for CORWM. Bob Church - until recently AMEC now BNFL
The media
Simon Jenkins – Guardian Columnist
Organisations
- Nuclear Industry Association - The chair of the NIA is BNFL group corporate affairs director Philip Dewhurst.
- Nirex has hired Promise PR and Good Relations
- The Committee for Radioactive Waste Management (CoRWM) has appointed Luther Pendragon to help it reassure people that nuclear waste is being dealt with (D. Bloch (2005) Luther Pendragon Takes On Nuclear Waste Brief, PR Week, 12 August, p8).
Companies
- British Energy has appointed Craig Stevenson, formerly Monsanto's top UK spin doctor, as head of government affairs. Also hired Financial Dynamics