Milestones achieved

• Set up Working Group with six experienced and influential team members.
• Mission statement agreed.
• The Joan Pye Project leaflet issued
• Donation of £100,000 made to the British Nuclear Energy Society Education and Training fund for the purpose of encouraging the training and development of future nuclear engineers.
• Set up of the www.joanpyeproject.org web site.
• June 2005 – Press launch and reception at the Institution of Civil Engineers.
• July, 2005 – Award of an Honorary Fellowship of the Institution of Nuclear Engineers to Joan Pye, MA.
• Funded Drs. Hamilton (Cambridge) and Short ((Sheffield) to attend the World Nuclear Institute Summer School in the USA.
• Over the year, established a network of over 50 consultants and technical advisers.
• Continuing distribution of useful news items to a wide audience of more than 150 supporters.
• September, 2005 – Responded with full submission to the Environmental Audit Commission of the House of Commons covering Nuclear Power and Renewables.
• Planning, with Head Teacher, of three sessions for 11-12 year old pupils at Robt. Sandilands CPS School in mid-January, 2006 to discuss and debate energy and global warming.
• Development of web site links with several major nuclear-friendly organisations.
• November, 2005 – discussion meetings with key personnel at major nuclear promoting organisations.
• Links with key members of Parliament to establish ongoing dialogue, particularly our Newbury MP, Richard Benyon; contact with our MEP, Daniel Hannan.
• April, 2006 - responded to the DTI Energy Review.
• April, 2006 - submitted to the Government a report by 12 qualified scientists and engineers on nuclear waste deposition and disposal, offering an alternative to the proposal being put forward by CoRWM.