NSE - Nuclear Science & Engineering at MIT

Female grad student Youyeon Choi, arms folded outside on a path with trees on the right, MIT

Researching high-fidelity methods to make small modular reactors more cost-effective

Faculty member Matteo Bucci seated at a lab bench with instruments, MIT

Matteo Bucci: Unlocking the hidden power of boiling — for energy, space, and beyond

Faculty member Zachary Hartwig stands arms folded inside a lab space at MIT

Zachary Hartwig: Transforming fusion from a scientific curiosity into a powerful clean energy source

Headshot of faculty member Ethan Peterson, outdoors against a green trees, MIT

Ethan Peterson: Smart handling of neutrons is crucial to fusion power success

Graduate student, Liam Hines, seated outdoors with concrete architectural columns in the background and to the right

Liam Hines: Aligning economic and regulatory frameworks for today’s nuclear reactor technology

Female with arms crossed standing on the right side of the photo inside a building at MIT with a brick wall to the right and steel structure to the left

Isabel Naranjo De Candido: Optimizing construction and operation of nuclear energy facilities

illustration of a factory and a cross-section of the ground beneath it. Dynamic liquid ammonia flows in and out

For clean ammonia, MIT engineers propose going underground
Flowchart from left to right: interconnected grid of spheres with arrows to a data panle with arrows to a 3D molecular structure with arrows to four bar grephs stacked vertically in a column

New computational chemistry techniques accelerate the prediction of molecules and materials
Closeup image of flares coming off of the sun

Study: Fusion energy could play a major role in the global response to climate change
Floating bricks over a photo of a foundry.

Decarbonizing heavy industry with thermal batteries

Department of Nuclear Science & Engineering

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Cambridge, MA 02139
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