Nuclear spin
Contents
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.
- Philip Dewhurst
- 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 Hutton - 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 Jenkin who is very pro nuclear
- Yvette Cooper - wife of Ed Balls - whose father is Tony Cooper - chair of the Nuclear Industry Association until Dec 2004 and now 'represents the interests of west cumbria' on the NDA
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
- Jason Nisse journalist with the IOS - on the board of NIREX........and declared in favour of nuclear dumping
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 Nuclear Fuels Limited and its US subsidiary:
- British Energy has appointed Craig Stevenson, formerly Monsanto's top UK spin doctor, as head of government affairs. Also hired Financial Dynamics
