Mike Weightman is at present HM Chief Inspector of Nuclear Installations and Director of HSE’s Nuclear Safety Directorate.  He is responsible for the regulation of nuclear safety and security in the UK. As HM CI he has contact at senior level with a wide variety of government departments; other government bodies; and various parts of the nuclear industry. Additionally, he is involved in various international organizations work to enhance nuclear safety and its regulation worldwide including the IAEA, OECD and the EC. He also sits on the HSE Board and plays a full part in setting the strategic direction of HSE. 

Formally, he was a Deputy Chief Inspector and headed the Division that regulates the UK’s nuclear power station sites, both operating and decommissioning.  Prior to that he led the Division that regulated BNFL and Urenco nuclear fuel cycle sites including Sellafield, and previously regulated MoD nuclear defence sites.

He is a professional engineer and physicist by way of background and earlier in his career worked for 13 years in the nuclear industry in a variety of technical and managerial posts

Peter Lutwyche has a wealth of experience from over 23 years in the UK Nuclear industry, initially within BNFL and latterly with Jacobs, the US based engineering company.  Peter's experience is drawn from such roles as Chairman of the nations Low Level Waste Repository, Programme Director of Sellafield's £1Bn plus annual programme of work, and Director of Nuclear Decommissioning and Major Projects at the Sellafield site.  Peter's achievements include the delivery of the best annual performance in the UK nuclear clean up industry, leading the transition of the Sellafield business from owner/operator to M&O contractor, and the demolition of the Calder Hall cooling towers.

Peter leads the Jacobs UK nuclear clean up and front end fuel cycle business and is a Fellow of the Association for Project Management and a member of the Institution of Chemical Engineers.  He is married with two teenage children.

Graham Fairhall joined BNFL after completing a PhD related to nuclear reactors. He has spent about 30 years in nuclear research and development and from 1995 held a number of senior technical roles in BNFL and its subsidiaries. With the formation of the National Nuclear Laboratory he was appointed as the Chief Science and Technology Officer. He sits on a number of national and international technical committees including decommissioning. He is a Visiting Professor at Imperial College London.

Sue Quint is Company Secretary of British Nuclear Fuels Limited. The Company was the former owner of Sellafield Limited, Magnox Electric and Westinghouse Electric. Since 2004, Sue has been instrumental in the reorganisation of the BNFL Group of Companies, following the enactment of the Energy Act in 2004 and the establishment of the NDA. She dealt with the transfer of the former BNFL sites to the NDA in 2005 and the subsequent sales of the Groups operational businesses to the commercial sector creating a competitive decommissioning market; firstly Westinghouse Electric in 2006 to Toshiba, Magnox Electric to Energy Solutions in 2007, BNG Project Services to VT and the transfer of Sellafield to Nuclear Management Partners in 2008. She is now involved in the wrap up of BNFL.

Jean Llewellyn was appointed as the Chief Executive of the National Skills Academy for Nuclear in November 2007. This followed a years’ secondment from the Northwest Development Agency (NWDA) leading the Project Team that developed the successful, government approved, Skills Academy Business Plan. She has spent the last four years working with employers and partners in the Nuclear Sector, including Chairing the Nuclear Skills Advisory Group, to identify the key skills and training challenges and issues facing the sector. This culminated in the employer led proposal to establish a National Skills Academy for Nuclear to address these challenges.

This lead on addressing the skills issues facing the Nuclear Sector was as part of Jean’s role as the Head of Skills Policy at the NWDA. In this role she led on the Northwest approach to addressing sector skills challenges facing the region and implementing national skills policy at a regional level.

Clive started as an apprentice Control Engineer with the Royal Navy and following a career spanning over 35 years and a variety of roles, was appointed the MoD’s Head of Nuclear Skills Team. Clive is a Chartered Engineer and his qualifications include a Post Graduate Diploma and an MSc in Nuclear Reactor Technology and Science.

Clive has extensive management experience within nuclear operational and training environments and across Government departments.  Positions included Chief Engineer of operational nuclear plants, Nuclear Safety Regulator and appointments in the Royal Navy, Ministry of Defence, Department of Trade and Industry and in commercial training companies

Raj has over eight years’ experience in Training & Development and Human Resources. Within Nuvia she is responsible for all Training & Development including the Company’s Graduate programme.  Raj has been deeply involved in National Skills Academy for Nuclear and Cogent activities since joining the Company in 2008.  In particular, the Community Apprenticeship Scheme and the Award in Nuclear Industry Awareness, where she is overall responsible for ensuring delivery from Nuvia.

John Lehew is President and Chief Executive Officer for CH2M HILL Plateau Remediation Company.

John has more than 23 years of nuclear operations, decommissioning, and environmental restoration experience.

John was the project manager for the Miamisburg Closure Project (Mound), responsible for decommissioning 64 nuclear, radiological, and commercial facilities; remediating 79 hazardous and radiological soil and groundwater sites; and disposing of more than 10 million cubic feet of excess nuclear material and remediation waste. This accelerated closure project was completed ahead of schedule and below cost.

In addition, John delivered decommissioning and plutonium residue stabilization projects in Buildings 707 and 776/777 at the Rocky Flats Closure Project. He also operated reactors at the Savannah River Site in South Carolina and at Naval Reactors Facility in Idaho.

Most recently, he served as the Site Project Manager for the $5.8 billion Dounreay (Scotland) decommissioning project in the United Kingdom.

John earned his bachelors degree in Marine Engineering Systems from the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy and his masters in Ecological Engineering from the Colorado School of Mines. He is a licensed marine engineer and is naval reactors engineer qualified.

John and wife, Kathy, live in the Badger Mountain area with their two sons. John and his family enjoy outdoor sports – skiing, biking, camping, and fishing.

Paul heads up the Nuclear Law Practice at International Law Firm Pinsent Masons which has been engaged in legal services to the Nuclear Industry for well over 20 years and was recently awarded and Highly Commended at the British Expertise Awards for its work on the second set of sarcophagus contracts on the Chernobyl Reactor. Paul is recognised as a leading UK Environmental Lawyer by Chambers Legal Directory, Legal 500, Who's Who International and Legal Experts. He has been engaged in several of the leading nuclear transactions in the UK in recent years including:  leading the due diligence team on a confidential client's bid for the purchase in 100% of the shares in British Energy, advising on the buy out of shares in Nuclear Engineering Services Limited, leading project teams on the purchase of one or more sites for New Nuclear Build in the UK including the successful acquisition of land adjacent to the existing Sellafield complex.  He has advised in relation to risk allocation in the context of the NDA competition for Parent Body for Sellafield and is part of the team acting for one of the technology suppliers going through the current Generic Design Assessment process.  He is currently working on aspects of the early licensing of sites for NNB in the UK and on contracts for the decommissioning of Nuclear Barges.

• Transaction support (financial due diligence) leader for Ernst & Young in the North West of England.
• Gary is a Chartered Accountant and qualified lawyer.
• Gary commenced practice in 1990 with a boutique insolvency and litigation firm in Australia. He joined Ernst & Young in Australia in 1996, became a partner in 2005 and transferred to Ernst & Young UK in 2007.
• Gary is a transaction support partner with a focus on nuclear, defence, infrastructure and other large corporate clients.
• Gary has worked on transactions in Australia, Indonesia, Russia and United Kingdom.

Hamish Lal is Head of London contentious and non-contentious construction law. His Practice covers the Real Estate, Renewables, Nuclear, Oil, PFI and Major Projects Sectors.  He has expertise in drafting FIDIC, NEC, IChemE, JCT and ICE based contracts as well as bespoke Target-Cost and Alliance contracts.  He has handled adjudications, arbitrations, expert determinations, mediations and High Court disputes relating to a wide variety of contractual, technical and financial matters including complex contractual interpretation, breach of EU Procurement Law, delay & disruption, professional negligence, defects, practical completion, liquidated damages, payment, variations and termination.

Daniel has been working with the nuclear industry for close to 10 years.  Following a secondment to the DTI Energy Group, (now DECC) to work on the restructuring of BNFL and the NDA white paper, Daniel has worked extensively in the industry with both Government and the private sector.  This work has included the rescue, restructuring and relisting of British Energy, incorporating the new arrangements for funding nuclear liabilities, financial advisor to the NDA and advisory work with tier 1, 2 and 3 supply chain companies.

Richard (Dick) D. Raaz has more than 30 years of technical leadership and management experience in demanding environments. As a leader of large, complex, multidisciplinary programs and projects for both civilian and military organizations, Mr. Raaz has gained extensive experience in the planning and execution of operations, engineering, maintenance, training and projects.

Since 1 April 2008 Mr. Raaz has been the Managing Director for the UK Low Level Waste Repository Site License company and from 2005-2007 served as President and General Manager for Washington TRU Solution, LLC. In that position he managed all aspects of the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant - the world’s only licensed deep geologic nuclear waste repository for the US Department of Energy. Prior to coming to WIPP, Mr. Raaz served as project manager of the Pit Disassembly & Conversion Facility in Colorado, where he was responsible for facility design, engineering, process engineering and U. S. Department of Energy program interfaces.

Mr. Raaz was the president of Safe Sites of Colorado LLC from 2000-2002. He directed prime contract negotiations at Rocky Flats Environmental Technology Site and maintained high-level interaction with the site's union work force.

As director of operations and maintenance programs for the Westinghouse Hanford Company, Mr. Raaz was responsible for development and implementation of Conduct of Operations activities, as well as support projects in nuclear facilities employing approximately 700 personnel. He led the contractor operational readiness review for plutonium packaging operations at Hanford's Plutonium Finishing Plant.

A graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy, Mr. Raaz held the positions of Chief of Staff, Commander Aircraft Carrier Group; Commanding Officer of a nuclear ballistic missile submarine, Commanding Officer of an attack nuclear submarine and Commanding Officer of a submarine training facility while serving in the United States Navy.

During his active duty service in the U.S. Navy, Captain Raaz was responsible for all Navy support to the major motion picture “The Hunt for Red October” and coordinated all pre-production planning and the actual filming.

Mr. Raaz earned an M.S. degree in engineering from the Catholic University of America, and bachelor's degrees in math and mechanical engineering from the U. S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland.

He has been honored with the Washington Group International Lion Award for Excellence in Project Execution and the Steven Decatur Award, a national operational excellence award, and was a member of the United States Navy League. He is a certified project management professional.

Gary McKeating is Head of Socio Economics for Nuclear Management Partners who hold the parent body contract for managing the Sellafield site in West Cumbria. He has responsibility for NMP’s extensive West Cumbria socio-economic support operation. Since winning the contract in November 2009, NMP has launched two major financial packages to assist the West Cumbria community. The first package of up to £20 million will support Britain’s Energy Coast West Cumbria projects over the next four years and a £2.5 million package to aid worthy causes and smaller schemes is run through the Cumbria Community Foundation. Gary previously worked as Business Opportunities Manager for the Energy Opportunities Team at Urban Regeneration company West Lakes Renaissance. He has a business development background with ICI Chemicals and DuPont Non Wovens Division and also worked for Invest in Cumbria as Senior Investment Manager for five years before joining West Lakes Renaissance. He has just completed a MSc in Local and Regional Economic Development and is Chair of Governors of a large Primary School in West Cumbria.

Shepley Engineers Limited was founded in Manchester in the late 1940's and has had a permanent presence at the Sellafield site since 1948 when it was responsible for the installation of ducting systems on the Windscale Reactors. Currently employing over four hundred staff the company now provides multidisciplined services associated with construction, dismantling, decommissioning and operational support involving the deployment of a highly skilled and experienced workforce. The company and its complimentary subsidiary businesses are established as a major contractor and employer in West Cumbria. Paul Scott joined the Shepley Group from the British Steel Corporation in 1987 and became Managing Director in 2007.