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Ashley, S.F.; Vaughan, G.J.; Nuttall, W.J.; Thomas, P.J. and Higgins, N.A. (2017). Predicting the cost of the consequences of a large nuclear accident in the UK. Process Safety and Environmental Protection, 112 pp. 96–113.

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Ashley, S. F.; Vaughan, G. J.; Nuttall, W. J. and Thomas, P. J. (2017). Considerations in relation to off-site emergency procedures and response for nuclear accidents. Process Safety and Environmental Protection, 112(A) pp. 77–95.

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Ashley, Stephen F.; Nuttall, William J. and Heffron, Raphael J. (2016). The present status of nuclear third-party liability and nuclear insurance. In: Heffron, Raphael J. and Little, Gavin F. M. eds. Delivering energy law and policy in the EU and the US: A reader. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, pp. 251–255.

Ashley, S. F.; Fenner, R. A.; Nuttall, W. J. and Parks, G. T. (2015). Life-cycle impacts from novel thorium–uranium-fuelled nuclear energy systems. Energy Conversion and Management, 101 pp. 136–150.

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Ashley, S. F.; Lindley, B. A.; Parks, G. T.; Nuttall, W. J.; Gregg, R.; Hesketh, K. W.; Kannan, U.; Krishnani, P. D.; Singh, B.; Thakur, A.; Cowper, M. and Talamo, A. (2014). Fuel cycle modelling of open cycle thorium-fuelled nuclear energy systems. Annals of Nuclear Energy, 69 pp. 314–330.

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Ashley, Steve; Fenner, Richard; Nuttall, William and Parks, Geoffrey (2013). Open cycle thorium–uranium-fuelled nuclear energy systems. Proceedings of the ICE: Energy, 166(EN2) pp. 74–81.

Ashley, Stephen F.; Parks, Geoffrey T.; Nuttall, William J.; Boxall, Colin and Grimes, Robin G. (2012). Nuclear Energy: Thorium fuel has risks. Nature, 492(7427) pp. 31–33.

Ashley, Steve; Nuttall, William; Parks, Geoffrey and Worrall, Andrew (2012). On the proliferation resistance of thorium-uranium nuclear fuel. In: UK Project on Nuclear Issues (PONI), Annual Conference 2012, 10 May 2012, London, UK, The Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies.

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Bakenne, Adetokunboh; Nuttall, William and Kazantzis, Nikolaos (2016). Sankey-Diagram-based insights into the hydrogen economy of today. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 41(19) pp. 7744–7753.

Bompard, Ettore; Masera, Marcelo and Nuttall, William J. (2015). High tension electricity: new multi-scale complexities in the electricity system. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 96 pp. 327–333.

Bompard, Ettore; Connors, Steve; Fulli, Gianluca; Han, Bei; Masera, Marcelo; Mengolini, Anna and Nuttall, William J. (2012). Smart energy grids and complexity science. In: Smart Energy Grids and Complexity Science, 25 Jun 2012, Petten NL, European Union - Joint Research Centre (EUR 25626EN), pp. 44–47.

Cardin, Michel-Alexandre; Zhang, Sizhe and Nuttall, William J. (2017). Strategic Real Option and Flexibility Analysis for Nuclear Power Plants Considering Uncertainty in Electricity Demand and Public Acceptance. Energy Economics, 64 pp. 226–237.

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Cardin, Michel-Alexandre; Steer, Steven J.; Nuttall, William J.; Parks, Geoffrey T.; Gonçalves, Leonardo V.N. and de Neufville, Richard (2012). Minimizing the economic cost and risk to accelerator-driven subcritical reactor technology. Part 2: The case of designing for flexibility. Nuclear Engineering and Design, 243 pp. 120–134.

Cai, Zhiming; Clarke, Richard H.; Glowacki, Bartek A.; Nuttall, William J. and Ward, Nick (2010). Ongoing ascent to the helium production plateau—insights from system dynamics. Resources Policy, 35(2) pp. 77–89.

Chyong Chi, Kong; Nuttall, William J. and Reiner, David M. (2009). Dynamics of the UK natural gas industry: system dynamics modelling and long-term energy policy analysis. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 76(3) pp. 339–357.

French, Simon; Argyris, Nikolaos; Nuttall, William; Moriarty, John and Thomas, Philip (2013). The early phase of a radiation accident: revisiting thinking on evacuation and exclusion zones. In: 10th ISCRAM Conference, 12-15 May 2013, Baden-Baden, Germany, pp. 296–300.

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Grzegorczyk, Malgorzata; Lotfian, Pantea and Nuttall, William J. (2021). Parallels Between the Future for MedTech and Agri-Tech, Perspectives Drawing on the British Experience. In: Koukios, Emmanuel and Sacio-Szymanska, Anna eds. Bio#Futures Foreseeing and Exploring the Bioeconomy. Switzerland: Springer, pp. 229–247.

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Glowacki, B. A.; Nuttall, W. J.; Hanley, E.; Kennedy, L. and O’Flynn, D. (2015). Hydrogen cryomagnetics for decentralised energy management and superconductivity. Journal of Superconductivity and Novel Magnetism, 28(2) pp. 561–571.

Grimston, Malcolm; Nuttall, William J. and Vaughan, Geoff (2014). The siting of UK nuclear reactors. Journal of Radiological Protection, 34(2) R1-R24.

Glowacki, B. A.; Nuttall, W. J. and Clarke, R. H. (2013). Beyond the Helium conundrum. IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity, 23(3), article no. 0500113.

Grimes, Robin W. and Nuttall, William (2010). Generating the option of a two-stage nuclear renaissance. Science, 329(5993) pp. 799–803.

Heffron, Raphael J. and Nuttall, William J. (2017). Scotland, Nuclear Energy Policy and Independence. In: Wood, Geoffrey and Baker, Keith eds. A Critical Review of Scottish Renewable and Low Carbon Energy Policy. Energy, Climate and the Environment. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 103–126.

Heffron, Raphael J.; Ashley, Stephen F. and Nuttall, William J. (2016). The global nuclear liability regime post Fukushima Daiichi. Progress in Nuclear Energy, 90 pp. 1–10.

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Ibarra-Yunez, Alejandro; Nuttall, William; Gibson, David and Trzmielak, Dariusz (2019). Conclusions. In: Nuttall, William J; Gibson, David V; Trzmielak, Dariusz and Ibarra-Yunez, Alejandro eds. Energy and Mobility in Smart Cities. ICE Publishing, pp. 231–235.

Jamasb, Tooraj; Nuttall, William J. and Pollitt, Michael (2008). The case for a new energy research, development and promotion policy for the UK. Energy Policy, 36(12) pp. 4610–4614.

Koc, Reyyan; Kazantzis, Nikolaus K.; Nuttall, William J. and Ma, Yi Hua (2013). An economic evaluation framework for inherently safe membrane reactor modules in the presence of uncertainty: the case for process safety investment and risk reduction. Journal of Loss Prevention in the Process Industries, 26(3) pp. 468–477.

Koc, Reyyan; Kazantzis, Nikolaos K.; Nuttall, William J. and Ma, Yi Hua (2012). Economic assessment of inherently safe membrane reactor technology options integrated into IGCC power plants. Process Safety and Environmental Protection, 90(5) pp. 436–450.

Madhavi, Madhu and Nuttall, William J. (2023). Modern global oil market under stress: system dynamics and scenarios. Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Energy, 176(1) pp. 4–19.

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Matthew, George; Nuttall, William; Mestel, Benjamin and Dooley, Laurence (2019). Low Carbon Futures: confronting electricity challenges on island systems. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 147 pp. 36–50.

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Matthew, George Jr.; Nuttall, William J.; Mestel, Ben and Dooley, Laurence S. (2017). A dynamic simulation of low-carbon policy influences on endogenous electricity demand in an isolated island system. Energy Policy, 109 pp. 121–131.

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Matthew, George; Nuttall, William J.; Mestel, Ben; Dooley, Laurence and Ferrão, Paulo Manuel (2016). Renewable Integration in Island Electricity Systems – A System Dynamics Assessment. In: Complex Systems Design & Management Asia, Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, Springer International Publishing, Switzerland, pp. 107–119.

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Matthew, George Jr. S.; Nuttall, William; Mestel, Ben and Dooley, Laurence (2015). Insights into the Thermal Generation Futures of Isolated Island Electricity Systems Using System Dynamics. In: Proceedings of the 33rd International Conference of the System Dynamics Society, 19-23 Jul 2015, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.

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Nuttall, William (2024). Britain’s loyalty to nuclear power. Economia Italiana, 2023(3) pp. 239–256.

Nuttall, William J. and MacGregor, Ian (2024). A Canadian case study of carbon dioxide removals and negative emission hydrogen production. Renewable and Sustainable Energy, 2(1), article no. 5.

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Nuttall, William J. (2023). The Changing Political Economy of Fusion. Journal of Fusion Energy, 42(1), article no. 19.

Nuttall, William J. (2022). Nuclear Renaissance: Technologies and Policies for the Future of Nuclear Power (Second Edition). Boca Raton, Florida, USA: CRC Press (part of the Taylor and Francis group).

Nuttall, William (2021). How nuclear energy can help make all UK electricity green by 2035. In The Conversation The Conversation Trust (UK) Limited, London.

Nuttall, William (2021). Smart cities - pushed by hopes and fears. Institution of Civil Engineers Publishing, London.

Nuttall, William and Thomas, Philip (2021). Fukushima: ten years on from the disaster, was Japan’s response right? In The Conversation UK The Conversation Trust (UK) Limited - a not for profit educational entity., London.

Nuttall, William; Konishi, Satoshi; Takeda, Shutaro and Webbe-Wood, David (2020). Introduction. In: Nuttall, William; Takeda, Shutaro; Konishi, Satoshi and Webbe-Wood, David eds. Commercialising Fusion Energy - How small businesses are transforming big science. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, pp. 1–6.

Nuttall, William (2020). Commercial opportunities for nuclear fusion. In: Nuttall, William; Takeda, Shutaro; Konishi, Satoshi and Webbe-Wood, David eds. Commercialising Fusion Energy - How small businesses are transforming big science. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing.

Nuttall, William; Konishi, Satoshi; Takeda, Shutaro and Webbe-Wood, David (2020). Conclusions. In: Nuttall, William; Takeda, Shutaro; Konishi, Satoshi and Webbe-Wood, David eds. Commercialising Fusion Energy - How small businesses are transforming big science. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing.

Nuttall, William and Neighbour, Gareth (2020). Non-power applications - new missions for nuclear energy to be delivered safely and securely. In: Nian, Victor ed. Advanced Security and Safeguarding in the Nuclear Power Industry: State of the Art and Future Challenges. London, UK: Academic Press, pp. 29–47.

Nuttall, William and Bakenne, Adetokunboh (2020). Will COVID-19 and Cheap Oil Green Our Energy Future? Energy Policy Research Group. University of Cambridge, Cambridge.

Nuttall, William James and Bakenne, Adetokunboh T. (2020). Fossil Fuel Hydrogen: Technical, Economic and Environmental Potential. Switzerland: Springer International Publishing.

Nuttall, William (2019). Historic European cities and the smart future. In: Nuttall, William J; Gibson, David V; Trzmielak, Dariusz and Ibarra-Yunez, Alejandro eds. Energy and Mobility in Smart Cities. ICE Publishing, pp. 19–29.

Nuttall, William; Ibarra-Yunez, Alejandro; Trzmielak, Dariusz and Gibson, David (2019). The smart future. ICE Publishing, pp. 3–16.

Nuttall, W. J. (2019). Britain and the Bomb - Technology, Culture and the Cold War. Dunbeath, Caithness, Scotland: Whittles Publishing.

Nuttall, W. J.; Ashley, S. F.; Fenner, R. A.; Krishnani, P. D. and Parks, G. T. (2019). Technology Assessment of Near-Term Open-Cycle Thorium-Fuelled Nuclear Energy Systems. In: Nayak, A. K. and Sehgal, B. R. eds. Thorium - Energy for the Future: Selected Papers from ThEC15. Springer, pp. 117–124.

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Nuttall, William J. (2018). Editorial. Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Energy, 171(2) pp. 47–48.

Nuttall, William J.; Samaras, Constantine and Bazilian, Morgan (2017). Energy and the Military: Convergence of Security, Economic, and Environmental Decision-Making. Energy Policy Research Group, Working Paper 1717, University of Cambridge.

Nuttall, William J.; Ashley, Stephen F. and Heffron, Raphael J. (2017). Compensating for severe nuclear accidents: An expert elucidation. Process Safety and Environmental Protection, 112(A) pp. 131–142.

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Nuttall, William J. (2017). Editorial. Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Energy, 170(4) pp. 135–136.

Nuttall, William; Glowacki, Bartek and Krishnamurthy, Satheesh (2016). Next Steps for Hydrogen - physics, technology and the future. Institute of Physics, London.

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Nuttall, William; Bompard, Ettore and Masera, Marcelo (2015). Smart Meters, Grids and Criminality. In: Gibson, David and Slovak, Jan eds. Building Sustainable R&D Centres in Emerging Technology Regions. Brno, Czech Republic: Masaryk University, pp. 131–143.

Nuttall, William J. and Storey, Peter (2014). Technology and policy issues relating to future developments in research and radioisotope production reactors. Progress in Nuclear Energy, 77 pp. 201–213.

Nuttall, William J. and Earp, John E. (2014). Nuclear Energy in the UK: Safety Culture and Industrial Organisation. In: Nam, Ilchong and Rothwell, Geoffrey eds. New Nuclear Power Industry Procurement Market: International Experiences. Research Monographs (2014-01). Sejong-Si, South Korea: Korea Development Institute, pp. 142–183.

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Nuttall, William J.; Clarke, Richard H. and Glowacki, Bartek A. (2012). Resources: Stop squandering helium. Nature, 485(7400) pp. 573–575.

Nuttall, William J.; Holweg, Matthias and Leybovich, Michael E. (2011). Too big to fail — lessons for today and the future from British industrial policy, 1960–1990. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 78(8) pp. 1286–1298.

Nuttall, William J. and Manz, Devon L. (2008). A new energy security paradigm for the twenty-first century. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 75(8) pp. 1247–1259.

Pearson, Richard and Nuttall, William (2020). Pioneers of commercial fusion. In: Nuttall, William; Takeda, Shutaro; Konishi, Satoshi and Webbe-Wood, David eds. Commercialising Fusion Energy - How small businesses are transforming big science. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing.

Pearson, R.J.; Costley, A.E.; Phaal, R. and Nuttall, W.J. (2020). Technology Roadmapping for mission-led agile hardware development: a case study of a commercial fusion energy start-up. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 158, article no. 120064.

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Pearson, Richard J.; Antoniazzi, Armando B. and Nuttall, William J. (2018). Tritium supply and use: a key issue for the development of nuclear fusion energy. Fusion Engineering and Design, 136 pp. 1140–1148.

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Pearson, Richard J; Comsa, Olivia; Stefan, Liviu and Nuttall, William J (2017). Romanian Tritium for Nuclear Fusion. Fusion Science and Technology, 71(4) pp. 610–615.

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Rooney, Matthew; Nuttall, William J. and Kazantzis, Nikolaos (2015). A dynamic model of the global uranium market and the nuclear fuel cycle. Resources Policy, 43 pp. 50–60.

Rooney, Matthew; Nuttall, William and Kazantzis, Nikolas (2013). A system dynamics study of uranium and the nuclear fuel cycle. In: 31st International Conference of the System Dynamics Society, 21-25 Jul 2013, Cambridge Massachusetts USA.

Roques, Fabien; Newbery, David M. and Nuttall, William J. (2008). Fuel mix diversification incentives in liberalized electricity markets: a Mean–Variance Portfolio theory approach. Energy Economics, 30(4) pp. 1831–1849.

Sasikumar, Yadukrishnan; Nuttall, William J. and Mason, Nigel J. (2024). An experimental apparatus to study the adsorption of water on proxies for spent nuclear fuel surfaces. Measurement Science and Technology, 35(11), article no. 116008.

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Sasikumar, Yadu; Nuttall, William; Keever, Tamara; Skitt, Darren; Montgomery, Rose and Bevard, Bruce (2022). Sister Rod Destructive Examinations (FY21) Appendix J: Leaching of High Burnup Used Nuclear Fuel in Deionized Water - Spent Fuel and Waste Disposition. In Sister Rod Destructive Examinations (FY21) US Department of Energy, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Tennessee, USA.

Spedding, Christopher P.; Lim, Sungwoo and Nuttall, William J. (2021). ISRU technology deployment at a lunar outpost in 2040: A Delphi survey. Acta Astronautica, 181 pp. 316–324.

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Spedding, Christopher P.; Nuttall, William J. and Lim, Sungwoo (2020). Energy requirements of a thermally processed ISRU radiation shield for a lunar habitat. Advances in Space Research, 65(11) pp. 2467–2474.

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Samaras, Constantine; Nuttall, William J. and Bazilian, Morgan (2019). Energy and the military: Convergence of security, economic, and environmental decision-making. Energy Strategy Reviews, 26, article no. 100409.

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Samaras, Constantine; Bazilian, Morgan and Nuttall, William (2019). Energy and the Military: Leading by Example. Yale University USA.

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Springell, Ross; Rennie, Sophie; Costelle, Leila; Darnbrough, James; Stitt, Camilla; Cocklin, Elizabeth; Lucas, Chris; Burrows, Robert; Sims, Howard; Wermeille, Didier; Rawle, Jonathan; Nicklin, Chris; Nuttall, William; Scott, Thomas and Lander, Gerard (2015). Water corrosion of spent nuclear fuel: radiolysis driven dissolution at the UO₂/water interface. Faraday Discussions, 180 pp. 301–311.

Steer, Steven J.; Cardin, Michel-Alexandre; Nuttall, William J.; Parks, Geoffrey T. and Gonçalves, Leonardo V.N. (2012). Minimising the economic cost and risk to accelerator-driven subcritical reactor technology: The case of designing for flexibility: Part 1. Nuclear Engineering and Design, 243 pp. 135–147.

Scurlock, Ralph; Clarke, Richard; Glowacki, Bartek and Nuttall, William (2012). The future of helium? A global agency to oversee production, storage, supply and use of helium gas and liquid. In: 12th Cryogenics IIR International Conference, 11-14 Sep 2012, Dresden, Germany.

Steer, Steven J.; Nuttall, William J.; Parks, Geoffrey T. and Gonçalves, Leonardo V.N. (2011). Predicting the contractual cost of unplanned shutdowns of power stations: an accelerator-driven subcritical reactor case study. Electric Power Systems Research, 81(8) pp. 1662–1671.

Upton, Eben and Nuttall, William James (2014). Fuel panics: insights from spatial agent-based simulation. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 15(4) pp. 1499–1509.

Webbe-Wood, David and Nuttall, William J. (2023). Calculations of net present value for a small modular fusion power plant under a range of scenarios. Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Energy, 176(4) pp. 187–196.

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Webbe-Wood, David; Nuttall, William J.; Kazantzis, Nikolaos K. and Chyong, Chi Kong (2023). The Options Value of Blue Hydrogen in a Low Carbon Energy System. EPRG Working Paper 2309; Cambridge Working Paper in Economics CWPE2338, Cambridge Energy Policy Research Group, University of Cambridge.