Research

SPOTLIGHT: PhD student Rishabh Datta seeks to further understanding of astrophysical phenomena.

Jossou is one of eleven new faculty members join six of the School of Engineering's academic departments and institutes.

Li along with his co-PIs from MIT, UCSB, and Boston College will work to accelerate research in topological quantum materials.

To launch extended missions in space, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is borrowing a page from the nuclear engineering industry: It is trying to understand how boiling works. Planning for long-term missions has NASA researching ways of packing the least...

Haruko Wainwright, the Norman C. Rasmussen Career Development Professor in Nuclear Science and Engineering (NSE) and Assistant Professor in Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE), grew up in rural Japan where many nuclear facilities are located. She remembers worrying about the facilities as...

NSE collaborative research on molten salt corrosion shows that controlling one-dimensional wormhole corrosion could help advance power plant designs

MIT Leaders for Global Operations’ collaboration with the Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering trains leaders for a rapidly evolving industry.

For the bulk of his years as a nuclear engineer, Jacopo Buongiorno has had a career filled with success, though it might also be called conventional in certain respects. Buongiorno, the TEPCO Professor of Nuclear Science and Engineering (NSE), earned his PhD...

Assil Halimi has always loved science since he was a child, but it was a singular experience at a college internship that stoked his interest in nuclear engineering. As part of work on a conceptual design for an aircraft electric propulsion system,...

Using lasers, NSE's Ju li, Paola Cappellaro, Haowei Xu and other researchers can directly control a property of nuclei called spin, that can encode quantum information.