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