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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...

On September 22, Rafael Mariano Grossi, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), delivered the 2023 David J. Rose Lecture in Nuclear Technology at MIT. This lecture series was started nearly 40 years ago in honor of the late Professor...

Jacopo Buongiorno, Tokyo Electric Power Company Professor in Nuclear Engineering, has been selected as one of the 2023 NURETH Fellows. Established in 1980 by the Thermal Hydraulics Division of the American Nuclear Society (ANS), NURETH Fellows are appointed once every two years to recognize...

For years, researchers have tried various ways to coax quantum bits — or qubits, the basic building blocks of quantum computers — to remain in their quantum state for ever-longer times, a key step in creating devices like quantum sensors, gyroscopes and...

Bilge Yildiz, Breene M. Kerr (1951) Professor in the Departments of Nuclear Science and Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering, has been selected as a 2023 Fellow of The Electrochemical Society (ECS). Each year 15 renowned scientists and engineers are selected by their peers for advanced individual...

Graduate student Patrick Adrian has been awarded the Director’s Postdoctoral Fellowship in High-Energy-Density Sciences (HEDS) from Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) in New Mexico to further his study of high-energy-density physics. Adrian, a Nuclear Science and Engineering student at MIT working in the High-Energy-Density-Physics...

For the United States to meet its net zero goals, nuclear energy needs to be on the smorgasbord of options. The problem: Its production still suffers from a lack of scale. To increase access rapidly, we need to stand up reactors quickly,...

MIT’s commencement ceremony is on June 1st. Thirty-eight NSE students graduate this year. Graduating with Doctoral Degrees Bodhisatwa Biswas PhD Samuel Frank PhD Miriam Kreher PhD Changhao Li PhD Isaac Meyer PhD Lucio Milanese PhD Alexander O’Brien PhD Raspberry Simpson PhD Amelia...

The following awards were announced at the awards ceremony hosted by the Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering and the student chapter of the American Nuclear Society on May 18, 2023. NSE Awards Andrew Stasiuk G Manson Benedict Award presented to a...

First-year MIT NSE doctoral student Kaylee Cunningham is not the first person to notice that nuclear energy has a public relations problem. But her commitment to dispel myths about the alternative power source has earned her the moniker “Ms. Nuclear Energy” on...