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Establish a global agency to build a sustainable market for this precious commodity, say William J. Nuttall, Richard H. Clarke and Bartek A. Glowacki.

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  1. William J. Nuttall is a senior lecturer in technology policy at Judge Business School, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 1AG, UK.

    • William J. Nuttall
  2. Richard H. Clarke is a cryogenics and helium specialist at the Culham Centre for Fusion Energy, Abingdon, Oxfordshire OX14 3DB, UK.

    • Richard H. Clarke
  3. Bartek A. Glowacki is a reader in the Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 3QZ, UK. They are the editors of The Future of Helium as a Natural Resource (Routledge, 2012).

    • Bartek A. Glowacki

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