http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/topic/nuclear-engineering.html Nuclear engineering headlines from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology News Office. en-us http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/www/mitlogo-rss.jpg http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/topic/nuclear-engineering.html 88 31 Wed, 19 Mar 2008 00:00:00 EST http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/ldx-tt0319.html An MIT team has successfully tested a novel reactor that could chart a new path toward nuclear fusion, which could become a safe and reliable source of energy. After 10 years of work, the reactor achieved full operation for the first time last November. Wed, 19 Mar 2008 00:00:00 EST http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/ldx-tt0319.html http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/fusion-0228.html Physicists at MIT and the University of Rochester have devised a new way to take 'snapshots' of the high-energy, high-temperature reactions seen as key to achieving the long-held dream of controlled nuclear fusion. Thu, 28 Feb 2008 00:00:00 EST http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/fusion-0228.html http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/obit-meyer-0206.html MIT Professor Emeritus John Meyer, a nuclear engineer who spent more than 25 years at MIT until his retirement in 2001, passed away Jan. 11. He was 76. Wed, 6 Feb 2008 00:00:00 EST http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/obit-meyer-0206.html http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2007/nanofluid-tt0919.html The Tech Talk article "Not so super-cool after all" did not accurately convey the conclusions reached by the lead researchers, Jacopo Buongiorno and Lin-Wen Hu. Wed, 19 Sep 2007 00:00:00 EST http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2007/nanofluid-tt0919.html http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2007/nanofluid-0829.html MIT engineers have shown that nanofluids, which once held promise as a super-coolant, do not have the theoretical cooling capabilities many scientists believed they had. Wed, 29 Aug 2007 00:00:00 EST http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2007/nanofluid-0829.html http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2007/nuclear-public-0723.html Americans' icy attitudes toward nuclear power are beginning to thaw, according to a new survey from MIT. The report also found a U.S. public increasingly unhappy with oil and more willing to develop alternative energy sources like wind and solar. Mon, 23 Jul 2007 00:00:00 EST http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2007/nuclear-public-0723.html http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2007/aandh-0703.html Thomas Schwartz, Assistant Professor of Biology, Daniel Kleppner, the Lester Wolfe Professor of Physics, and Michael Golay, Professor of Nuclear Science and Engineering, awarded honors in their fields. Tue, 3 Jul 2007 00:00:00 EST http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2007/aandh-0703.html http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2007/nuke-course.html An MIT undergraduate course is exploring how to safely transport spent nuclear fuel from the approximately 130 nuclear power plants in the United States to a high-security repository in Yucca Mountain, Nev. Tue, 17 Apr 2007 00:00:00 EST http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2007/nuke-course.html