Fusion energy has now emerged as one of the most disruptive technology opportunities attracting the attention of risk-tolerant investors and large amounts of private capital. The new and much revised second edition of Commercializing Fusion Energy considers the emergence of nuclear fusion technology as a commercial proposition grounded in technological opportunities and high-technology business development. It has been developed, with a new publisher, as an editorial collaboration between British and Japanese experts. As such it gives weight to developments in those two countries at the forefront of fusion innovation. The book presents chapters from a wide range of specialists and key stakeholders.

Commercializing Fusion Energy can be purchased online here.

About the contributor

Professor William Nuttall

William Nuttall is Professor of Energy Policy and Transformation at the University of Bristol. He is a trustee and Fellow of Hughes Hall, Cambridge University and an  Fellow (honorary) of Cambridge Judge Business School. He is also a Non-Resident Fellow at The Payne Institute for Public Policy at Colorado School of Mines, USA. Professor Nuttall’s career has taken him from experimental physics (PhD, MIT; USA, 1993) and post-doctoral research at Keele University and Birmingham University to technology policy, with an emphasis on energy policy. Key to that transition was his Fulbright Scholarship to MIT (1987-1988). From 2007 to 2012 he worked on matters of science policy for the Institute of Physics in London. Subsequently he was Lecturer, and later Senior Lecturer, at the University of Cambridge, where he launched the MPhil in Technology Policy for the Cambridge-MIT Institute in 2002. He was Professor of Energy at The Open University from 2012 to 2024. As a nuclear energy policy specialist, he has provided policy and strategy advice experience for the UK Government, international institutions and the private sector.