Hugh Collum
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Sir Hugh Robert Collum was a British
businessman, best known for his time as chairman of British Nuclear Fuels Ltd (BNFL
).
Sir Hugh was a financial director for Courage Breweries and chief financial officer at SmithKline Beecham
before becoming chaiman of BNFL in 1999. He led the company through a partial privatisation and a series of crises at Sellafield
before his retirement in June 2004.
United Kingdom
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businessman, best known for his time as chairman of British Nuclear Fuels Ltd (BNFL
BNFL
British Nuclear Fuels Limited was a nuclear energy and fuels company owned by the UK Government. It was a former manufacturer and transporter of nuclear fuel , ran reactors, generated and sold electricity, reprocessed and managed spent fuel , and decommissioned nuclear plants and other similar...
).
Sir Hugh was a financial director for Courage Breweries and chief financial officer at SmithKline Beecham
GlaxoSmithKline
GlaxoSmithKline plc is a global pharmaceutical, biologics, vaccines and consumer healthcare company headquartered in London, United Kingdom...
before becoming chaiman of BNFL in 1999. He led the company through a partial privatisation and a series of crises at Sellafield
Sellafield
Sellafield is a nuclear reprocessing site, close to the village of Seascale on the coast of the Irish Sea in Cumbria, England. The site is served by Sellafield railway station. Sellafield is an off-shoot from the original nuclear reactor site at Windscale which is currently undergoing...
before his retirement in June 2004.