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Please note that the lecture has been postponed to take place in Spring 2021 The Del Favero Thesis Prize, established in 2014 with a generous gift from alum James Del Favero (SM ’84), is awarded annually to a PhD graduate in NSE...

MIT-CFS team’s demonstration of new superconducting cable is a key step on the high-field path to compact fusion. Scientists have long sought to harness fusion as an inexhaustible and carbon-free energy source. Within the last few years, groundbreaking high-temperature superconductor technology (HTS)...

Professor of Nuclear Science and Engineering (NSE) Koroush Shirvan will lead a collaborative 3-year project with Fortum to create an open source tool for techno-economic modelling of small modular reactor (SMR) projects. The goal is to generate greater understanding of SMR projects...

NSE graduate student Samuel McAlpine was awarded a First Place prize in the Innovations in Nuclear Technology R&D Awards sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Nuclear Technology R&D. McAlpine’s award is in the Open Competition in the category of...

Far from MIT, NSE students Charlotte Wickert, Mriganka Mandal, and Natalie Montoya, take ownership of projects and explore new terrain When the pandemic drove MIT students from Cambridge in March, few suspected this disruption would prove beneficial. Yet for some undergraduate researchers...

The study’s result can be seen as one solution to the open problem of how work and heat are defined in open quantum systems. Understanding the laws of classical thermodynamics allows for many of the modern technologies we take for granted today,...

The 2020 NSE UROP Summer Research Festival showcases undergraduate research in the Department. The moderated lightning talks by eleven undergraduates will be held in three parallel Zoom sessions. Session 1Hosted by Lisa Magnano-Bleheen Join Session Session 2Hosted by Kristi Stone Join Session Session 3Hosted...

The 2020 MIT A+B Applied Energy Symposium (MITAB) was held entirely virtually this year, with both live and prerecorded online presentations from August 13–14, 2020. The conference aims to disseminate information on technologies that either (A) can be currently deployed to reduce...

In mid-March, when the Covid-19 pandemic darkened MIT classrooms and labs, lights switched on for undergraduate research taking place remotely. Zooming in from times zones often distant from Cambridge, many students were able to take continue undergraduate research opportunities (UROPs) made possible...

Separation of 85Kr from Spent Nuclear Fuel by a Highly Selective Metal Organic Framework. Nuclear energy provides about 20 percent of the US electricity supply, and over half of its carbon-free generating capacity. Operations of commercial nuclear reactors produce small quantities of...