| The Nuclear Energy Institute is the organization that | | | | start of the nuclear age. |
| sets policies for the nuclear technology and energy | | | | NEI and its nuclear energy enthusiast members, |
| industry and takes part in policy making both | | | | develop legislative and regulatory policy on nuclear |
| nationally and globally. The objective of the Nuclear | | | | energy issues. NEI is the personification of the voice |
| Energy Institute is ensuring formation of policies that | | | | of the nuclear industry and appears before the |
| use nuclear energy safely and beneficially in the U.S. | | | | United States Congress, before agencies of the U.S. |
| and worldwide. | | | | executive branch of government, before |
| Founded in 1994, the Nuclear Energy Institute was a | | | | representatives of federal regulatory agencies, and |
| merging of several associations, one that had been in | | | | before pertinent international organizations. NEI also |
| existence for decades. NEI combined the resources | | | | gives its members and others interested in nuclear |
| of the Nuclear Utility Management and Resources | | | | energy a forum in which they can resolve business |
| Council (NUMARC0, which had been tasked with | | | | and technical problems and issues for the nuclear |
| overseeing nuclear energy technical and regulatory | | | | industry. Another task of NEI is to inform its |
| issues; the U.S. Council for Energy Awareness | | | | members, legislators and policymakers, the media and |
| (USCEA), which deals with communications on nuclear | | | | the public in a timely and accurate manner about |
| energy on a grand scale; The American Nuclear | | | | nuclear energy including recent advancements and |
| Energy Council (ANEC,) the government affairs | | | | safety concerns. |
| agency for nuclear energy-related tasks; and the | | | | 250 corporate representatives in 13 countries belong |
| nuclear department of the Edison Electric Energy | | | | to the Nuclear Energy Institute. Member firms include |
| Council (EEI), whose responsibility it had been to | | | | nuclear power plant owners, engineering and design |
| oversee handling of nuclear fuel management with | | | | companies, fuel supply vendors and service firms, |
| regards to used energy, the supply of nuclear fuel | | | | companies that work in nuclear medicine, research |
| and its economics. | | | | and industrial application, radiopharmaceutical and |
| AIF had been created in 1953, and two years later it | | | | radionuclide business, research laboratories including |
| was followed by an international nuclear energy | | | | universities, and labor unions. NEI programs and |
| conference called "Atoms for Peace. Held in Geneva, | | | | activities regularly have more than 6000 industry |
| this 1955 gathering was touted as heralding in the | | | | professional participants. |