Sir Hugh Robert Collum (29 June 1940 – 29 August 2005) was a British businessman, best known for his time as chairman of British Nuclear Fuels Ltd (

BNFL British Nuclear Fuels Limited (BNFL) was a nuclear energy and fuels company owned by the UK Government. It was a manufacturer of nuclear fuel (notably MOX), ran reactors, generated and sold electricity, reprocessed and managed spent fuel (mainly ...

). Sir Hugh was a financial director for Courage Breweries and chief financial officer at SmithKline Beecham before becoming chairman of BNFL in 1999. He led the company through a partial

privatisation Privatization (also privatisation in British English) can mean several different things, most commonly referring to moving something from the public sector into the private sector. It is also sometimes used as a synonym for deregulation when ...

and a series of crises at

Sellafield Sellafield is a large multi-function nuclear site close to Seascale on the coast of Cumbria, England. As of August 2022, primary activities are nuclear waste processing and storage and nuclear decommissioning. Former activities included nucle ...

before his retirement in June 2004. He was knighted in the

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References

Obituary
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