Alan McGoff leads on new nuclear build in the Environment Agency’s Environment and Business Directorate.  With the Office for Nuclear Regulation, he developed and implemented the regulators’ Generic Design Assessment programme scrutinising new reactor designs.  Alan’s past experience includes regulatory process development, including leading development of the Radioactive Substances Regulatory Environmental Principles now in use in the Agency.   He transferred to the Environment Agency at its creation in 1996 from Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Pollution where he was site inspector at major industrial and nuclear sites in Suffolk, Essex and Norfolk, including Sizewell B and Bradwell Nuclear Power Stations.  As site inspector at Sizewell B he determined and issued the first radioactive discharge authorisations for the new station.  A physicist, he began his career at BNFL Sellafield, developing, specifying, installing, commissioning and supporting special radiometric instruments for the process plants there.