Nuclear Power

Co-led by NSE’s Bilge Yildez and DMSE’s Yet-Ming Chiang, The Center for Electrification and Decarbonization of Industry, unites MIT climate researchers to create scalable clean energy solutions under one roof. NSE’s Ju Li is one of sixteen collaborators who form the MIT team.

In the forward to his memoir in progress, Sidney Yip describes his life, and 50-plus-year career as a professor of nuclear science and engineering (NSE), as touched by “luck and contentment.” But while the 86-year-old emeritus professor finally has some time to...

Friday, April 1, 2022. 1:00 PM – 3:20 PM ET Koch Institute, 500 Main Street first floor Main Corridor and Galleries and Auditorium 76-156 The MIT Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering held its annual Research Expo on April 1, 2022. The...

A team of researchers at MIT and Brookhaven National Laboratory have come up with a way of stabilizing the interfaces in solid-state lithium-ion batteries opens new possibilities.

Looking back on nearly a half century at MIT, Richard K. Lester, associate provost and Japan Steel Industry Professor, sees a “somewhat eccentric professional trajectory.” But while his path has been irregular, there has been a clearly defined through line, Lester says:...

The call to action in the face of rapidly accelerating climate change is growing louder than ever. MIT’s Department of Nuclear Science & Engineering (NSE) is uniquely positioned to address this global challenge. It continues to spearhead mitigation and remediation efforts through...

NSE graduate student Abhilash Mathews is testing a simplified turbulence theory’s ability to model complex plasma phenomena using a novel machine-learning technique.

By incorporating the scattering of RF waves into fusion simulations, MIT physicists improve heating and current drive predictions for fusion plasmas.

Researchers argue the plant could provide multiple benefits for California, including desalinated water and clean hydrogen fuel.

Jacopo Buongiorno, Jeffrey Freidberg, Koroush Shirvan, and Dennis Whyte receve MIT Energy Initiative Seed Fund grants for their early-stage energy research projects. Awards support research to improve the efficiency, scalability, and adoption of clean energy technologies.