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Diving into nuclear submarines
In 2021, the United States, United Kingdom and Australia formed a partnership, dubbed AUKUS, which will allow the Australian Navy to purchase several nuclear-powered submarines in an effort to modernize their fleet. Building a nuclear submarine program from scratch is anything but...
Team engineers nanoparticles using ion irradiation to advance clean energy and fuel conversion
The work by NSE’s Prof Bilge Yildiz and collaborators demonstrates control over key properties leading to better performance.
Physicists trap electrons in a 3D crystal for the first time
The results, published by a team of MIT researchers including Prof Mingda Li, open the door to exploring superconductivity and other exotic electronic states in three-dimensional materials.
A new view on nuclear energy
If the words “nuclear power” make you think of Three Mile Island or Fukushima, then Jacopo Buongiorno has a class for you. The Tokyo Electric Power Company Professor in Nuclear Engineering and Director of the Center for Advanced Nuclear Energy Systems (CANES),...
Jill Rahon: Soaring high in the Army — and in research
Starting off as a junior helicopter pilot, Lieutenant Colonel Jill  Rahon deployed to Afghanistan three times. During the last one, she was an air mission commander, the  pilot who is designated to interface with the ground troops throughout the mission. Today, Rahon...
How to decarbonize the world, at scale
In her keynote at MITEI’s Annual Research Conference, Anne White stressed the urgency to “develop and scale low-carbon and zero-carbon solutions ... with a practical systems-based approach that considers efficiency, affordability, equity, and sustainability for how the world will meet its energy needs.”
Paola Cappellaro elected 2023 American Physical Society Fellow
Nominated by the Division of Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics, Professor Cappellaro was cited, “[f]or groundbreaking contributions to quantum control and quantum sensing with spin systems.”
2023 Del Favero Thesis Prize
Xu will deliver the Del Favero Thesis Prize Lecture on the topic of his PhD work — optical control over nuclear degrees of freedom.
3 Questions: What should scientists and the public know about nuclear waste?
Professor Haruko Wainwright describes a new effort to communicate information about managing and disposing of spent fuel from nuclear reactors.
Making more magnetism possible with topology
Researchers have been working for years to understand the electron topology and magnetism in certain semimetals have been frustrated by the fact that the materials only display magnetic properties if they are cooled to just a few degrees above absolute zero. A...