Nuclear Energy: Selected Publications

Christopher P. Spedding, William J. Nuttall, Sungwoo Lim, Energy requirements of a thermally processed ISRU radiation shield for a lunar habitat, Advances in Space Research, 65, (2020) pp. 2467-2474. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.asr.2020.03.015

Andy Wilson, William J. Nuttall, Bartek A. Glowacki, Energy Policy Research Group Working Paper 2001, Techno-economic study of output-flexible light water nuclear reactor systems with cryogenic energy storage, Posted on 7 January 2020,

WJ Nuttall, SF Ashley, RA Fenner, PD Krishnani, GT Parks, Technology Assessment of Near-Term Open-Cycle Thorium-Fuelled Nuclear Energy Systems In: Thorium—Energy for the Future, pp. 117-124, (2019) https://www.springer.com/la/book/9789811326578 RRA

Richard John Pearson, Armando Bruno Antoniazzi, William James Nuttall, Tritium Supply and Use: A Key Issue for the Development of Nuclear Fusion Energy, Fusion Engineering and Design 136 pp. 1140–1148 RPR

Laik, A.; Shirzadi, A. A.; Sharma, G.; Tewari, R.; Jayakumar, T. and Dey, G. K. (2015). Microstructure and Interfacial Reactions During Vacuum Brazing of Stainless Steel to Titanium Using Ag-28 pct Cu Alloy. Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A, 46(2) pp. 771–782.   http://oro.open.ac.uk/44247/

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. http://oro.open.ac.uk/40914/

Lei, X. W.; Wang, H. H.; Wu, K. M.; Shirzadi, A. A.; Yin, Y. Q. and Wu, N. C. (2014). In situ observation of bainite to austenite transformation of microalloyed high strength steel during simulated welding cycle. Science and Technology of Welding and Joining, 19(5) pp. 402–407.

S. C. Chapman; R. O. Dendy; T. N. Todd; N W Watkins et al. (2014) Relationship of edge localized mode burst times with divertor flux loop signal phase in JET. In Physics of Plasmas 21 (6). http://scitation.aip.org/content/aip/journal/pop/21/6/10.1063/1.4881474

Grimston, Malcolm; Nuttall, William J. and Vaughan, Geoff (2014). The siting of UK nuclear reactors. Journal of Radiological Protection, 34(2) R1-R24. http://oro.open.ac.uk/40915/

Stephen F. Ashley;  B A Lindley; Geoffrey T. Parks; William J. Nuttall; R. Gregg; K W Hesketh ; U Kannan, P D Krishnani; B Singh; A Thakur; M Cowper;  A Talamo (2014). Fuel Cycle Modelling of Open Cycle Thorium-Fuelled Nuclear Energy Systems. Annals of Nuclear Energy. 69 pp. 314–330. http://oro.open.ac.uk/40919/

Laik, A.; Shirzadi, A. A.; Tewari, R.; Kumar, Anish; Jayakumar, T. and Dey, G. K. (2013) : Microstructure and interfacial reactions during active metal brazing of stainless steel to titanium. Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A, 44(5) pp. 2212–2225.  http://oro.open.ac.uk/36757/8/microstructure.pdf 

Hu, Feng; Wu, Kaiming; Hou, Tingping and Shirzadi, Amir A. (2013). Tempering stability of retained austenite in nanostructured dual-phase steels. Materials Science and Technology, 29(8) pp. 947–953.

O. Muránsky; T. M. Holden; O. Kirstein; J. A. James; A. M. Paradowska and L. Edwards (2013). Evaluation of residual stresses in electron-beam welded Zr2.5Nb0.9Hf Zircadyne flange mock-up of a reflector vessel beam tube flange. Journal of Nuclear Materials, 438(1-3) pp. 154–162. http://oro.open.ac.uk/37806/

Stephen F. Ashley; Geoffrey T. Parks; William J. Nuttall; Colin Boxall and Robin W. Grimes (2012). Thorium Fuels Has Risks. Nature, 492(7427) pp. 31–33.  http://oro.open.ac.uk/36458/

H. Jazaeri; P. J. Bouchard; M. Hutchings and P. Lindner (2012). Study of creep cavitation in a stainless steel weldment. In: 4^th International Conference on Integrity of High Temperature Welds, 25–27 September 2012, London. http://oro.open.ac.uk/35736/