Our People
William Poulson - Managing Director
Bill has more than 35 years of experience in managing programmes, projects and operations involving nuclear facilities and large engineering efforts in a regulatory environment. Bill’s expertise includes engineering, operations and general management and he has managed high profile programmes that have excelled under intense regulatory and stakeholder oversight. His customers included the US Department of Energy, the US Navy, the Corps of Engineers, and the US Air Force, and a variety of commercial customers. Immediately prior to being appointed as Managing Director of Sellafield Ltd, Bill was the Executive Vice President of Performance Assurance for the URS Washington Division Energy & Environment Business Unit. He had the responsibility for performance assurance initiatives, including implementing strategies that build the business, assure consistency in the approach to performance, and identify and resolve performance-based customer issues across the sites and projects.
Sellafield Ltd receives flood support award
Sellafield Ltd has received an award from Allerdale Borough Council as a 'thank you' for the support we gave during last year's floods.
High Active Waste departs UK for The Netherlands
Sellafield Ltd and International Nuclear Services, working in partnership, are in the process of transporting a flask of solid highly active waste (HAW) to the harbour of Vlissingen in The Netherlands.
Local innovation helps pave the way for decommissioning
An 18-month characterisation project using laser and gamma scanning technology within the early primary separation plant at Sellafield has now been completed, paving the way for future decommissioning work to begin.