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Notional rendering of a Nuclear Battery, including (from left to right) the instrumentation and control module, the reactor, shielding and heat transfer module, and the power module. In the midst of an economic downturn and unfolding climate crisis, Jacopo Buongiorno, TEPCO Professor...

Mr William D. Magwood IVDirector-General, OECD Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) An Atomic Future: How We Got Here and the Major Challenges Ahead Thursday, March 4, 2021. 1:00PM to 2:30PM ESTZoom Webinar — Register to attendModerated by Professor Jacopo Buongiono, NSE Abstract The Nuclear Energy...

“I had always expected I’d stay at MIT for the four years, get my undergraduate degree at the end and probably return to the UK.” Richard Ibekwe recalls his early assumptions about his academic path at MIT. Now he is a nuclear...

Associate Professor Michael Short's innovative approach can be seen in the two nuclear science and engineering courses he’s transformed.

Emeritus professor’s contributions over a span of seven decades advanced nuclear waste disposal and fuel cycle development Michael J. Driscoll, emeritus professor of nuclear science and engineering, recognized for his leadership in research and devotion to mentorship and education, died peacefully on...

January 12 & 13, 2021 NSE Nuclear Winter School Goes Virtual The Nuclear Winter School is an opportunity for current undergraduate students to explore the Nuclear Science and Engineering Department and MIT. This initiative seeks to promote the value of graduate education...

One of India’s largest commercial and research nuclear reactor facilities lies just south of Arunkumar Seshadri’s hometown of Chennai, India. It was there, during a high school field trip, that the seeds of his interest in nuclear power were planted. “We learned...

Koroush Shirvan, Ben Forget and other MIT researchers show that deep reinforcement learning can be used to design more efficient nuclear reactors.

Lucio Milanese anlong with three others from MIT will pursue master’s degrees in global affairs and leadership training at Tsinghua University in Beijing.

NSE alums Pablo Rodriguez-Fernandez PhD’19 and Katia Paramonova ’13 have been named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 lists in for 2021. As an MIT graduate student under the direction of Professor Anne White, Rodriguez-Fernandez became intrigued by a fusion research mystery that had remained...