New Managing Director of Sellafield Ltd
A joint statement was issued today by Nuclear Management Partners (NMP). Sellafield Ltd and the NDA announcing that William (Bill) Poulson has been appointed Managing Director and Chairman of the Sellafield Site Licence Company. Bill will replace Bob Pedde, the current Managing Director, who has reluctantly stepped down from his position because of a family health issue.
Bill Poulson was closely involved in NMP’s bid in the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority’s (NDA) competition to be the new Parent Body for Sellafield Ltd and is also a Board member of that Parent Body Organisation.
Bill has worked in the nuclear industry for 35 years. He is currently Executive Vice President – Performance Assurance for URS Washington Division’s Energy and Environment business unit.
Previously he was in charge of all operations at Savannah River, the US’s closest equivalent to Sellafield. Earlier, as General Manager of the West Valley Demonstration Project, he started up and operated the first and only systems in the US to vitrify waste from reprocessing of commercial spent nuclear fuel. He received a US Government award for demonstrating “exemplary standards in safe operation” of the vitrification system.
