Leadership and Governance

Professor Adrian Bull MBE is Associate Director at the Dalton Nuclear Institute, where he is the BNFL Chair in Nuclear Energy and Society. He joined the University part-time in 2021, following 40 years in the UK nuclear industry with BNFL, Westinghouse and latterly the National Nuclear Laboratory, where he was External Relations Director for 10 years.

His Dalton activities focus on Government policy around nuclear and energy, and on stakeholder and community engagement on nuclear issues. Adrian is also a consultant with US-based specialist nuclear communications company Full On Communications.

Email: president@nuclearinst.com

Fiona Rayment enjoys a plural career covering nuclear advisory and non executive director roles and has dedicated decades to the nuclear sector. 

Fiona is a Chartered Chemist and Engineer with a PhD in Chemistry from the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow and is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering as well as the Royal Society of Chemistry. She has been a Fellow of the Nuclear Institute since 2014.

Fiona has recently served as Chief Science and Technology Officer at the UK National Nuclear Laboratory, as a member of Euratom’s Science and Technology Committee, the Idaho National Laboratory's Nuclear Science and Technology Advisory Committee, and was the first chair of the UK’s Nuclear Skills Strategy Group.

Her current roles across the sector include being a Government advisor, a member of the Office of Nuclear Regulation Chief Nuclear Inspector’s Independent Advisory Panel and a visiting Professor at the Dalton Nuclear Institute, University of Manchester. Fiona is chair of the Scientific Advisory Committee of the Energy Division at CEA - the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission, a Non-Executive Member of the Board of the UK Space Agency, and Non-Executive Director of Nuclear Restoration Services. 

Linda is an experienced finance professional, has a fellowship status with the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA) and more than 25 years’ experience at senior board and executive roles within the Nuclear, Defence and Transport sectors. 

She began her early career working in various finance roles for commercial transport companies, including Volvo GB and Leyland DAF before joining the corporate finance team at British Nuclear Fuels Ltd (BNFL) HQ, in 1999. Linda led many projects through BNFL’s privatisation and following its liquidation remained in the nuclear sector, taking on a number of senior finance board appointments in multi-national organisations including Westinghouse, Toshiba, and Amentum.  

Linda is a commercially astute finance director with a solid understanding of the domestic and international nuclear sector. She has a strong track record of leading change, inspiring teams, and working effectively with internal and external stakeholders. She is passionate about developing the next generation and as a former executive of Women in Nuclear, continues as an ambassador to influence diversity and inclusion across the sector.

Linda joined Nuclear Transport Solutions as CFO in May 2023, then was appointed as Finance Director and an Executive member on the ONR Board in October 2024.

Kirsty is a purpose-driven Non-Executive Director and Trustee. Her current roles include serving as a NED at AWE PLC; Lay Member of Council at Lancaster University and Trustee at The Nuclear Institute.

Her executive career spanned 30 years of operational, technical and commercial leadership roles in a highly regulated industry, including as Vice President of Environmental Services, and Global Director of Quality and Performance Improvement at Westinghouse. In 2010, she was a key negotiator in the acquisition of Springfields Fuels Limited from UK Government. As Head of Oxide Fuels, she was responsible for the design, manufacturing and delivery of all the UK’s nuclear fuel, ensuring security of supply for 20% of the UK’s electricity.

Kirsty is a Chartered Director, a Fellow of the Institute of Directors and The Nuclear Institute and a Visiting Professor at Manchester University. She holds a BSc in Physics, an MBA and a Diploma in Company Direction.

Virginia Crosbie is Managing Director of the Nuclear Energy Maritime Organization (NEMO), the international membership organisation working to enable the safe, secure, insurable and internationally workable use of nuclear energy at sea.

Virginia was elected as the Member of Parliament for Ynys Môn in the December 2019 general election. She is known for her strong advocacy for nuclear energy, particularly her support for new nuclear development at Wylfa on Anglesey. She founded and chaired the Nuclear Delivery Group, served as Vice-Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Nuclear Energy, and chaired the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Small Modular Reactors.

Her work helped maintain national focus on Wylfa and contributed to the UK Government’s March 2024 announcement that it had purchased the site, followed by confirmation in May 2024 that Wylfa had been selected for new nuclear development.

Prior to entering politics, Virginia worked at GlaxoWellcome before building a successful career in financial services as a highly rated equity research analyst covering European large-cap pharmaceuticals at leading banks including UBS and HSBC.

The son of a Coal Miner, Richard first entered the nuclear sector as a graduate trainee over 35 years ago in a technically focused role at what was then BNFL Springfields, with a degree in Metallurgy and Materials. He quickly moved towards operations and project management where he has spent most of his career trying to deliver progress. Richard has enjoyed leadership roles across a wide range of the UK nuclear landscape working at several sites in support of Civil and Defence programs and also in the USA. In his current role, he leads the Innovate UK team working with Rolls-Royce SMR. He previously worked directly in UK Government as a Policy Official in Nuclear.

Richard regularly supports the Institute and wider sector as a delegate, speaker and advocate at events and seeks to influence and educate in the widest sense. In recent years he has served as a member of the Nuclear Institute Midlands Branch committee and on the Institute Policy Committee.

Jennifer Nugent is currently the Head of Technical Solutions at Nuclear Transport Solutions (NTS) (part of the NDA group) where she is a recognised leader.  NTS is the leading global provider of safe, secure, and reliable nuclear transport and logistics solutions that help make the world safer and more sustainable.

Jennifer started her nuclear career at BNFL Springfields in the research laboratories, moving into the Environmental department and then to her preferred area of Nuclear Transport. Having led teams working on Package Design, Safety Case development and Licensing through to consignment and delivery she is keen to ensure that the skills relating to the transport of nuclear material are maintained as without transport there is no nuclear industry.

Hannah Paterson is a programme manager for irradiated fuels at Sellafield Ltd developing new capabilities for long term spent fuel storage.

A Chartered Chemist by training, Hannah has a Master of Chemistry degree from the University of Edinburgh. She has over 10 years’ experience in radioactive waste management and fuel management systems having held leadership roles in strategy and technical programme development and implementation at both the NDA and Sellafield Ltd. Recent roles include serving as Board of Director for the European Nuclear Society.

An active advocate for the Nuclear Institute since starting in the industry Hannah served on the Strategic Committee for the YGN 2018-2022 and was chair of the YGN in 2021 having initiated the #NetZeroNeedsNuclear campaign at COP26.

Jasbir is one of the UK's leading Operational Risk Analysts, with over 30 years of experience developing quantified holistic risk/safety models taking the role of the human being into consideration. He cut his teeth developing models for the UK civil nuclear power generation industry. 

Jasbir has a BEng (Hons) in Nuclear Engineering from the University of Manchester and an MBA from the University of Surrey where his final year dissertation covered valuing different base-load power generators, Coal, Gas and Nuclear taking financial (real) options theory into consideration.

He started his career as a Safety Engineer at Electrowatt International (3 years) and followed this with seven years at WS Atkins where his final role was Principal Risk Consultant. In 2000 he set-up CRA which was the second company and first SME to join the NI’s Company Membership Scheme. Jas was the Managing Director of CRA for 24 years and is now a  partner of Nuclear Capital LLP,  a partnership aiming to tap into the huge global expansion in large-scale nuclear and emerging Small Modular Reactors (SMRs)/Advanced Nuclear Technologies (ANTs) by assisting institutions and nuclear interested parties in deploying capital into the nuclear life cycle.

Saralyn is Skills Lead for Great British Nuclear. She was previously a senior nuclear safety consultant working for Abbott Risk Consulting Ltd. She worked for various clients across the sector in new build, waste management and decommissioning projects, writing various safety case documentation. 

Saralyn is a former Chair of the NI Young Generation Network (2022), and served on the YGN Strategic Committee 2019 – 2023. Her other YGN roles include:

• YGN Vice-Chair and International Liaison, 2021
• YGN Marketing and Comms Lead, 2020
• YGN Secretary, 2019
• YGN representative for the NI Central England Branch, 2016 – 2018

Sasha is an experienced and effective economic and community regeneration professional having worked in both the private and public sectors at a senior level across Wales, the UK and overseas. She has a particular passion for Wales’ potential in maximising and developing its economy, realising its energy and natural resources potential to the benefit of Wales (and its visitors) and the wider UK. This includes developing low-carbon energy, especially nuclear, and tourism sectors, and improving communications and engagement with the business and community sectors.

Sasha's wealth of experience includes holding the roles of Head of Commercial at Natural Resources Wales (NRW) and Head of Strategic Development Wales at Horizon Nuclear Power.