Energy

Assistant Professor Dean Price sees a bright future for nuclear power, and he believes artificial intelligence can help us realize that vision

Assistant Professor Sophia Henneberg is developing stellarators to harness fusion energy

MIT's Bilge Yildiz and Ju Li found a way to predict how efficiently materials can transport protons in clean energy devices and other advanced technologies.

Recognizing that nuclear waste continues to be a bottleneck in the widespread use of nuclear energy, NSE doctoral student, Dauren Sarsenbayev, is developing models that explore how to address the problem.

A new study by Haruko Wainwright and collaborators analyzes different nuclear waste management strategies, with a focus on the radionuclide iodine-129.

Sophia Henneberg focuses on developing, utilizing, and extending optimization tools to identify new, promising stellarator designs, which are a promising path toward fusion energy. Ethan Peterson focuses on improving radiation transport and transmutation methods for the design of fusion technologies, as well as whole-facility modeling for fusion power plants. Dean Price focuses on the simulation and control of advanced reactors, with expertise in uncertainty quantification, scientific machine learning, and artificial intelligence for nuclear applications.

PhD student Miranda Schwacke works with Prof Bilge Yildiz to explore how computing inspired by the human brain can fuel energy-efficient artificial intelligence.

Mingda Li, an Associate Professor of Nuclear Science and Engineering, has been named a 2025 fellow of the American Physical Society (APS). Nominated by the Topical Group on Data Science (GDS), Li was cited, “[f]or pioneering the integration of artificial intelligence with...

Doctoral student, Marco Graffiedi, is researching quenching processes to help cool nuclear cores and NASA craft the next generation of space vehicles.

NSE graduate students at the Plasma Science and Fusion Center, Audrey DeVault and Bryan Foo, are recipients of highly competitive Department of Energy fellowships that support emerging leaders in high-energy density physics and nuclear science.