MIT Nuclear Science and Engineering

During her @mitenergy UROP, Lucy Greenup studied how radiation interacts with nuclear materials, enabling the development of better failure detection systems for nuclear fusion reactors. youtu.be/wmYbakg_ZHU?si…

Meet Brandy Baker, NSE's Director of Academic Programs, recently honored with an Enduring Impact Award by the Office of Graduate Education for making sustained contributions that have meaningfully shaped the graduate community. nse.mit.edu/brandy-baker-d…

For nuclear to be viable as a clean energy source, it must be affordable to produce. Lauren Fortier, a doctoral student in MIT's Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering, is helping facilitate remote operation and autonomous control of nuclear plants. youtu.be/5r2o-kiBnmo

A quantum sensor made from nitrogen-vacancy centers in diamonds, created by MIT researchers, measures tiny signals at levels that would be impossible using classical sensors alone. news.mit.edu/2026/multitask…

An MIT CANES symposium which discussed strengths and gaps of US nuclear energy program identified workforce and financing as challenges to scaling the technology rapidly and efficiently to deliver new fleet of nuclear power plants. nse.mit.edu/can-the-united…

Congratulations to NSE's Denisse Córdova Carrizales, one of 30 selected to receive a Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship for graduate studies. pdsoros.org/fellows/deniss…

NSE’s Professor Dean Price sees a bright future for nuclear power. He believes AI can help us realize that vision and is working to ensure nuclear technology meets today’s significant demands. news.mit.edu/2026/working-t…

MIT researchers have created an AI model trained on 2,000 semiconductor materials. Using neutron-scattering, it detects and classifies atomic defects that can be tuned to give materials new properties. news.mit.edu/2026/mit-resea…

Professor Sophia Henneberg, who joined NSE in 2025, is developing stellarators — a type of magnetic confinement fusion machine — to harness fusion which has the potential to become an unlimited energy source. news.mit.edu/2026/championi…

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…