Nuclear Consulting Limited

Team

NCL is a partnership of senior nuclear people. Everyone who carries an NCL assignment has held real responsibility in the industry, in regulation or in government, and the person a client meets at the start of an engagement is accountable for the work at the end.

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People who have done the job before.

NCL’s people have run stations, licensed reactors, directed programmes, regulated the industry and advised government, and they join NCL to keep working at the top of the industry on their own terms. Partners own the client relationship and sponsor every assignment. Advisers give the opinions that Advisory rests on. Service directors set the standard of the work, and the consultants deliver.

Most stay active elsewhere in the industry alongside their NCL role, which is why clients get people whose knowledge is current.

Senior leadership

The Managing Director, the board and the managing partners for each line of the business: Consulting, Service Delivery and Advisory. The Consulting Managing Partner leads the commercial line, pipeline, conversion and the allocation of client ownership. The Service Delivery Managing Partner leads capability, deployment, standards and delivery quality. The Advisory Managing Partner leads the advisers and the standard of an NCL opinion.

David RaeburnDavid RaeburnManaging DirectorFounding director. Strategic adviser to senior stakeholders in nuclear new build, with an interest in small and advanced reactors, Gen IV and fusion.ProfileMRMichael R. DruryConsulting Managing PartnerLeads the consulting practice.ProfileAndrew RichardsonAndrew RichardsonNon-Executive DirectorBoard member and occasional consultant on selected projects. Portfolio transformation and asset optimisation across nuclear, renewables and conventional generation.ProfileNCLService Delivery Managing PartnerAppointment in progressLeads the capability line: associate engagement, deployment, standards and delivery quality across the ten consulting practices.ProfileNCLAdvisory Managing PartnerAppointment in progressLeads the Advisory line: the advisers, the standard of an NCL opinion and the assignments that rest on them.Profile

Consulting partners

Consulting partners own and drive client relationships and sponsor every project. Each leads a market or a discipline. Appointments for defence and nuclear operations are in progress.

DFDebbie FrancisConsulting Partner, UK and European new build, and government programmesLeads UK and European new build projects and government programmes.ProfileABAlexandra Bugnon-MurysConsulting Partner, UK-France market entry and the Middle EastLeads UK-France market entry and the Middle East region.ProfileDGDr Gareth PeelConsulting Partner, Waste, decommissioning and advanced nuclearFormer Director of Waste Management at a global nuclear services group and Director of Advanced Nuclear Technology at a major UK nuclear contractor.ProfileJVJaspal VirdeeConsulting Partner, CanadaDual-chartered in the UK and Canada and based in Ontario.ProfileMWMatthew WalkerConsulting Partner, Sector collaborationsFocused on building collaborations across the UK nuclear sector: joint ventures, alliances and delivery partnerships.ProfileAlfred PowerAlfred PowerConsulting Partner, configuration management and digital deliveryDirects NCL's technical teams. Two decades of senior technical management on high-profile nuclear projects.Profile
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ExperienceMore than 2,400 years of nuclear experienceAcross NCL’s partners, advisers and consultants: an average of twenty-four years each, two in five past thirty years, and forty-six chartered or doctoral qualifications between them. Every one has held real responsibility in the industry, in regulation or in government.

Advisers

Advisers are the people clients ask for by name, engaged where judgement and standing matter more than delivery hours. They are grouped below by the ground they cover: regulation, licensing and consent, the largest group, with former regulators, generic design assessment leaders and nuclear lawyers; strategy, commercial and finance; waste, decommissioning and fuel; and operations, security and defence. Many advisers work confidentially and are introduced privately rather than listed here, so the names below are part of the group. An advisory assignment names the adviser at the outset. Contact NCL to discuss advisory services.

Advisory lead To be announced

30 yearsAverage time in the industry89%With more than twenty years59%With more than thirty years48 yearsThe longest-serving adviser’s career in nuclear safety and licensing

Regulation, licensing and consent 12 advisers

MJM J LewisNuclear Safety and Licensing Director · 48 yearsKKnoxNuclear Programme and Regulatory Executive · 33 yearsKBKeith BaldryRadiation Safety and Regulatory Policy Director · 31 yearsSLSandra LittleNuclear Regulation and Licensing Specialist · 30 yearsSBSteve BithellNuclear Safety and HSE Director · 30 yearsARAndrew RentonNuclear and Energy Projects Lawyer · 30 yearsFKFrank KloseAdvanced Reactor Licensing Adviser · 25 yearsDCDr C GrundyNuclear Regulation and Policy Lead · 25 yearsSSSimon StuttafordNuclear Regulatory and Environmental Lawyer · 25 yearsAWAndrew WaltersPlanning and Environmental Consenting Director · 25 yearsJPJo PlyerNuclear Environmental Regulation Specialist · 19 yearsLALameen Abdul-MalikNuclear Governance and Institutional Adviser · 15 years

Strategy, commercial and finance 6 advisers

CFColin FeatherstoneCommercial, Contracts and Disputes Director · 40 yearsMRMartin RideNuclear Supply Chain Specialist · 40 yearsTGTimothy GilroyNuclear Business Development and Export Lead · 35 yearsKAKirsty ArmerNuclear Executive and Non-Executive Director · 33 yearsJGJim GibbonEnergy Commercial Director · 25 yearsAGAmjad GhoriNuclear Project Finance Adviser · 25 years

Waste, decommissioning and fuel 4 advisers

LBLucy BaileyRadioactive Waste Disposal Safety Case Specialist · 33 yearsSMSimon MarshallNuclear Fuel Cycle and Strategy Adviser · 45 yearsSSextonNuclear Executive and Decommissioning Director · 40 yearsPBPeter BoothEnvironmental Remediation and Waste Management Consultant · 35 years

Operations, security and defence 3 advisers

NTNick TomkinsonNuclear Security and Threat Reduction Specialist · 20 yearsPNPhil NobleNuclear Operations and Independent Oversight · 37 yearsSYSteve YoungDefence and Nuclear Transformation Director · 35 years

How Advisory works

Service directors

Each of the six consulting practices has a service director accountable for the standard of every deliverable in that practice and for the people who produce them. They set how the work is done; the partner owns the client relationship. Appointments are being made through 2026 and each practice page carries the appointment as it is confirmed.

Service director appointments are being confirmed through 2026.

The consultants

Sixty consultants do the work across the six practices, from safety case and licensing through waste, operations and digital delivery to strategy and project delivery. Staff consultants, expert associates and specialists from alliance and affiliate companies work to one governance and quality system, under a partner’s direction and to a service director’s standards. Many hold senior positions elsewhere in the industry, so NCL introduces them assignment by assignment rather than in a public list.

60Consultants across six practices63%With more than twenty years in the industry30%With more than thirty years1,360 yearsCombined nuclear experience

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