MIT Nuclear Science and Engineering

NSE’s Professor Ericmoore Jossou sees his research as a calling. His drive to solve the most important problems affecting society, inspired his current work in nuclear energy. youtube.com/watch?v=X2vx-Z…

Big problems require bold engineering — and community behind it. Be one of the 600 supporting Nuclear Science and Engineering today. Give through the MIT School of Engineering Challenge and select the Nuno Loureiro Memorial Fund in the dropdown. @mitalumni giving.mit.edu/24hc-soe

Professor Bilge Yildiz's research involving the electrochemistry of inorganic materials has applications ranging from CO2-free electricity and fuels to bio-inspired energy-efficient computing. dmse.mit.edu/news/yildiz-wo…

Developed by MIT and DOE's @argonne, award-winning software OpenMC is optimized to run on supercomputers enabling researchers to simulate entire fission reactors and fusion devices with unprecedented detail. alcf.anl.gov/news/open-sour…

Nuclear power offers around-the-clock clean energy. NSE’s Jacopo Buongiorno breaks down how nuclear power got so costly and what we can learn from countries with more active nuclear industries on the Ask MIT Podcast. @mitenergy climate.mit.edu/podcasts/e2-nu…

MIT researchers, including NSE’s Bilge Yildiz and Ju Li, developed a model to predict how efficiently materials can transport protons in clean energy devices and other advanced technologies. news.mit.edu/2025/what-make…

NSE's Professor Haruko Wainwright is dedicated to nurturing resilience, curiosity, and compassion in graduate students. She is honored for her outstanding mentorship as "Committed to Caring" news.mit.edu/2026/mit-facul…

The chemical propulsion systems that got us to the moon won’t work for the longer trip to Mars. NSE’s Taylor Hampson is modeling an engine that heats propellant using nuclear energy that could cut travel times to the Red Planet. news.mit.edu/2026/taylor-ha…

As part of his doctoral research, NSE’s Dauren Sarsenbayev is addressing one of the most significant obstacles to the use of nuclear energy — the disposal of high-level nuclear waste. news.mit.edu/2025/dauren-sa…

We are deeply saddened by the loss of our dear friend and colleague, Professor Nuno Loureiro. news.mit.edu/2025/nuno-lour…

Friday Feature: AI use in materials development is booming, says NSE’s Prof. Ju Li. “AI assists us in choosing the best experiment to do based on our previous experiments and — based on literature searches — makes hypotheses and suggests new experiments.” news.mit.edu/2025/how-ai-ca…

Copilot for Real-world Experimental Scientists (CRESt), developed by Ju Li and a team of MIT researchers, is an automated robotic platform for conducting scientific experiments that incorporates information from diverse sources. news.mit.edu/2025/ai-system…

Friday Feature: A new study by Haruko Wainwright and colleagues analyzes global nuclear waste management strategies, focusing on iodine-129, and explores how environmental regulations and technologies shape approaches and tradeoffs worldwide. news.mit.edu/2025/what-shou…

Friday Feature: Driven by fascination with materials, Miranda Schwacke develops brain-inspired materials and devices for neuromorphic computing, exploring how combining processing and memory enables energy-efficient artificial intelligence. news.mit.edu/2025/brain-pow…

Friday Feature: PhD student Marco Graffiedi is helping to develop the next generation of spaceships and nuclear plants. His work on quenching, a powerful heat-transfer mechanism, may facilitate refueling in space as well as cooling of nuclear cores. news.mit.edu/2025/using-cla…

Friday Feature: NSE welcomes 3 new faculty members who will broaden & expand the Department's research portfolio: Sophia Henneberg (stellarators), Ethan Peterson (fusion technologies), Dean Price (simulation & control of advanced reactors). news.mit.edu/2025/school-en…

Friday Feature: Mingda Li and MIT researchers developed a data-driven framework to assess the scalability of quantum materials by combining and evaluating their quantum properties, cost, supply chain, environmental impact, and related factors. news.mit.edu/2025/why-some-…

Friday Feature: Congratulations to Mingda Li, named a 2025 fellow of the @APSphysics. His research unites quantum theory, advanced characterization, and artificial intelligence to tackle open problems in complex materials. nse.mit.edu/mingda-li-name…

Friday Feature: NSE's Zach Hartwig fosters transformative research through growth and independence, encouraging students to not only to grow as scholars, but as people. He is honored for his rare and powerful mentorship as "Committed to Caring". news.mit.edu/2025/signposts…

Friday Feature: NSE's Mingda Li and a team of MIT researchers have developed a technique that lets popular generative materials models create promising quantum materials by following specific design rules. news.mit.edu/2025/new-tool-…