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One of India’s largest commercial and research nuclear reactor facilities lies just south of Arunkumar Seshadri’s hometown of Chennai, India. It was there, during a high school field trip, that the seeds of his interest in nuclear power were planted. “We learned...

Professor Mike Short is a wizard professor, casting spells on his students, whom he refers to as "raw stuff" and "absolutely brilliant" as he leads them through personalized, unique, and often outrageous-sounding assignments that help them not only understand, but also come to love the subject.

New superconducting magnet breaks magnetic field strength records, paving the way for practical, commercial, carbon-free power.

A quantum effect in ‘topological semimetals’ demonstrated by MIT researchers could allow for the utilization of an untapped energy source. More than two-thirds of the energy used worldwide is ultimately ejected as “waste heat.” Within that reservoir of discarded energy lies a...

NSE alums Pablo Rodriguez-Fernandez PhD’19 and Katia Paramonova ’13 have been named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 lists in for 2021. As an MIT graduate student under the direction of Professor Anne White, Rodriguez-Fernandez became intrigued by a fusion research mystery that had remained...

Well before arriving on campus, Peninah (Nina) Levine knew what she wanted from her undergraduate education: “I came to MIT to be in an environment that would push me beyond my comfortable limits,” says Levine, a senior majoring in nuclear science and...

22.63 ARC-H fusion design for producing carbon-free fuel December 10, 2020 1:00 PM EDT ARC-H : conceptual design of a high-field fusion device for producing hydrogen and ammonia fuel for maritime shipping RELATED A new path to solving a longstanding fusion challenge...

On the path to writing his PhD dissertation Lucio Milanese made a discovery – one that refocused his research and will now likely dominate his thesis. Milanese studies plasma, a gas-like flow of ions and electrons that comprises 99 percent of the...

Ju Li, the Battelle Energy Alliance Professor in Nuclear Engineering and Professor of Materials Science and Engineering was selected to receive the The Minerals, Metals and Materials Society (TMS) Fellow Award, Class of 2022. Prof Li receives the award “for ground-breaking work on...