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William Nuttall

Director of the MoTI Programme
Assistant Director of the Electricity Policy Research Group
University Senior Lecturer in Technology Policy
Fellow of Hughes Hall

BSc Hons (Univ. of East Anglia), PhD (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Shared post at Cambridge Judge Business School and the University of Cambridge Engineering Department

Professional experience

William Nuttall's research centres upon issues concerning energy technologies and public policy. A major area of activity relates to nuclear energy, the nuclear fuel cycle and possibilities for advanced nuclear energy technologies. He teaches on the Technology Policy MPhil and was its founding Director (2002-2006). He has much experience of the use of electronic teaching resources, in class role-play simulation and field trips in support of post-graduate teaching.

Dr Nuttall is involved in several University-based projects. He is an Assistant Director of the Electricity Policy Research Group serves on a University working group tasked with developing nuclear energy related activities at the University. Dr Nuttall collaborates with Dr Geoff Parks in the Engineering Department on prospects for advanced nuclear energy systems. In a related personal capacity he also is Treasurer of the Thorium Energy Amplifier Association.

Dr Nuttall is Treasurer of the Institute of Physics Group in Nonlinear and Complex Physics and is regional higher education observer on the Board of the East of England Energy Group.

He is a member of the editorial board of Innovations, a journal from MIT Press and a member of the International Organizing Committee of the International Conferences on Technology Policy and Innovation.

An experienced commentator on energy issues, he has spoken at the request of the European Commission, the UK government, the UK parliament and various news media (print, broadcast and online).

Awards and scholarships

• East of England Energy Group Innovation Award (3rd Place), 2006
• Overseas Research Studentship, Science and Engineering Research Council, 1989-1991
• MIT Industrial Forum Fellowship, 1987
• Fulbright Scholarship (Post-Graduate Student Award), 1987-1988

Research interests

Technology and policy, with a recent focus on Cold War aerospace and defence issues complementing long-standing nuclear energy-related interests; active scholarship and research in complexity science and agent-based simulation, much of which is applied to problems in energy policy.

William Nuttall is a member of the Operations, Information & Technology subject group.

Selected publications

Nuttall, W.J. (2005) Nuclear renaissance: technologies and policies for the future of nuclear power. Bristol: IOP/CRC Press, Taylor and Francis.
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Roques, F.A., Nuttall, W.J., Newbery, D.M., de Neufville, R. and Connors, S. (2006) "Nuclear power: a hedge against uncertain gas and carbon prices?" The Energy Journal, 37(4): 1-23

Jamasb, T., Nuttall, W.J. and Pollitt, M.G. (eds.) (2006) Future electricity technologies and systems. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Nuttall, W.J., Farnan, I., Hamilton, D.J. and Konings, R.J.M. (2007) "Special issue on options for the long-term management of separated plutonium." Progress in Nuclear Energy, 49(8)

Bredimas, A. and Nuttall, W.J. (2008) "An international comparison of regulatory organizations and licensing procedures for new nuclear power plants." Energy Policy, 36(4): 1344-1354 (DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2007.10.035)

Pouret, L., Buttery, N. and Nuttall, W.J. (2009) "Is nuclear power inflexible?" Nuclear Future, 5(6): 333-341

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