Believe in yourself, believe that you have potential and believe that you can make a difference. Mike Tynan, Nuclear Expert and Advisor

Mike lives in Preston with Wife Janet and his son and daughter who live nearby. He grew up in West Cumbria and lived in a small village Keekle in a single row of houses between Cleator Moor and Whitehaven.

He went to Whitehaven Grammar School and then went on to West Cumbria College in 1976.

Mike joined Calder Hall power station in 1975 when he was eighteen and spent much of his early career at Sellafield Ltd starting out as an Accountant.

He joined Westinghouse in 2004 as the Director of Springfields Fuels Ltd. In 2010 he became Managing Director of Nuclear Power Delivery UK then Vice President of Westinghouse UK Fuel and Managing and finally CEO of Westinghouse UK.

In 2013 he moved to The University of Sheffield as CEO of Nuclear AMRC. He was also a founder Board member of both the National Skills Academy for Nuclear and the Lancashire Enterprise Partnership.

He is now the chair of NIRAB and a member of the UK Nuclear Industry Council.