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