William J. Nuttall is Professor of Energy at The Open University, based in Milton Keynes, UK. Professor Nuttall's career has taken him from experimental physics (PhD MIT USA 1993) to technology policy with an emphasis on energy policy. He held a Fulbright Scholarship (USA-UK Postgraduate Student Award) at MIT (1987-1988). He is today Open University lead for the Imperial-Cambridge-Open Centre for Doctoral Training in nuclear energy; he is Honorary Editor and Chair of the Editorial Panel for the Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Energy; he is a Fellow of Hughes Hall at the University of Cambridge UK; and he is a Non-Resident Fellow at the Payne Institute of the Colorado School of Mines. He has extensive policy advice experience for the UK Government and the European Union especially on matters relating to civil nuclear power technology and policy.