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NSE’s Zach Hartwig wins 2022 FPA Excellence in Fusion Engineering Award
Robert N. Noyce Career Development Professor, Zach Hartwig has been selected by the Fusion Power Associates (FPA) Board of Directors as the recipient of a 2022 Excellence in Fusion Engineering Award.
Pursuing progress at the nanoscale
Led by NSE’ Prof Zach Hartwig, Nuclear Systems Design Project students tackle the real problem of bringing small-angle neutron scattering (SANS) technology to campus.
Evan Leppink: Seeking a way to better stabilize the fusion environment
In a residency supported by the Department of Energy, the NSE PhD candidate, Evan Leppink, will explore the high-field side of the DIII-D tokamak.
NSE’s Jack Hare to explore geothermal stimulation technology
Assistant Professor of Nuclear Science and Engineering Jack Hare has received funding to participate in the development of next generation geothermal stimulation technology. Hare will work on a project led by Eden, a geoscience technology development company. Founded by two MIT Geophysics PhD students, Eden...
Loureiro, Short, Hartwig on leadership team revisioning of the future of the MIT PSFC
Five from the Plasma Science and Fusion Center, including three NSE profs, assume new duties to support the growth of collaborations, research, and education at MIT
MIT expands research collaboration with Commonwealth Fusion Systems to build net energy fusion machine, SPARC
New five-year agreement will support SPARC science, increase graduate students and postdocs, and support interdisciplinary work toward fusion power plants.
NSE’s Justin Kunimune wins prestigious LRGF fellowship to further his work in inertial confinement fusion
Kunimune will spend time at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory working with NSE alum Dan Casey PhD ’12 in Verena Geppert-Kleinrath’s research group, where he will develop new analysis tools to reconstruct the three-dimensional shapes of ICF implosions.
How the Universe got its magnetic field
By studying the dynamics of plasma turbulence, MIT researchers are solving one of the mysteries of the origins of cosmological magnetic fields.
NSE’s Dennis Whyte honored with 2022 University of Saskatchewan Alumni Lifetime Achievement Award
Dennis Whyte, the Hitachi America Professor of Engineeing and Director of the Plasma Science and Fusion Center at MIT is one of seven honorees this year to recieve Alumni Achievement Award given by the University of Saskatchewan (USask). One of the university’s...
Using excess heat to improve electrolyzers and fuel cells
Clean electricity and stored heat from nuclear power and intermittent electricity from wind and solar can be efficiently converted to green hydrogen, fuels and chemicals using protonic ceramic electrolyzers with exceptional performance and stability. The reduction in the use of fossil fuels...