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NSE’s Mujid Kazimi wins Kuwait PrizeNSE’s Professor Mujid Kazimi has been awarded the 2011 Kuwait Prize in Applied Sciences by the Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Science (KFAS). The field of applied sciences selected for the 2011 award is nuclear power technology. ... more |
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MIT awarded over $1.7M in DOE Nuclear Energy University Programs grants and $450K in graduate student fellowshipsTwo of 47 newly-funded Department of Energy research projects are led by professors in the Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering at MIT. Under its Nuclear Energy University Programs (NEUP) umbrella, the DOE has awarded $36.2 million in support of projects in four fields: fuel cycle research & development; reactor concepts research, development & demonstration; nuclear energy advanced modeling & simulation; and transformative research. Both the MIT projects fall into the fuel cycle research & development category. ... more |
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NSE graduate students Black, Boyd, Shaner win NEUP FellowshipsFirst-year graduate students Brad Black, William Dawson and Samuel Shaner in the Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering at MIT are among 31 graduate students across the country who have won fellowships through the Department of Energy’s Nuclear Energy University Programs (NEUP). A fourth student, Geoffrey Gunow, who will enroll in NSE at MIT in September, was awarded a NEUP fellowship while still a student at the University of Michigan. ... more |
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A new look at prolonged radiation exposureA new study from MIT scientists suggests that the guidelines governments use to determine when to evacuate people following a nuclear accident may be too conservative. The study, led by Bevin Engelward and Jacquelyn Yanch and published in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives, found that when mice were exposed to radiation doses about 400 times greater than background levels for five weeks, no DNA damage could be detected. Current U.S. regulations require that residents of any area that reaches radiation levels eight times higher than background should be evacuated. However, the financial and emotional cost of such relocation may not be worthwhile, the researchers say. ... more |
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NSE's Felix Parra wins DOE Early Career Research Program awardTokamaks are one of the most promising fusion energy concepts. Assistant Professor Felix Parra in the Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering at MIT has been awarded an Early Career Research Program grant to support his project “Spontaneous Generation of Rotation in Tokamak Plasmas”. ... more |
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MIT to host 2013 American Nuclear Society Student ConferenceThe MIT American Nuclear Society Student Section has won the bid to host the 2013 ANS Student Conference in Spring of 2013. A team of more than thirty undergraduate and graduate students from the Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering at MIT crafted the successful proposal to bring the conference back to MIT. ... more |
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MIT researchers answer questions about fusion powerMIT researchers discuss the things we've learned about fusion in the past decade, how long it's likely to take for fusion to power your home, the biggest problems fusion researchers are working to solve, and why it's important to continue funding fusion projects. They also delve into the specifics of tokamak operation, like dealing with disruption events and the limitations on reactor size, and provide some insight into fusion as a career... more |
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MIT research team wins Somiya Award for International CollaborationMaterials Science and Engineering Professor Harry Tuller and Nuclear Science & Engineering Professor Bilge Yildiz are among the 2012 recipients of the International Union of Materials Research Societies (IUMRS) Somiya Award along with three international collaborators... more |
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Alan Jasanoff is designing imaging sensors that could help reveal the brain’s inner workingsAfter finishing his PhD in molecular biophysics, Alan Jasanoff decided to veer away from that field and try looking into some of the biggest questions in neuroscience: How do we perceive things? What happens in our brains when we make decisions? After a few months, however, he realized that he didn’t have the tools he wanted to use — so he decided to start making his own. Jasanoff, who recently earned tenure in MIT’s Department of Biological Engineering, now specializes in developing novel brain-imaging agents that can reveal information more detailed than other human brain-imaging techniques such as fMRI and PET, and more comprehensive than traditional neuroscience measurements such as microscopy and electrode recordings. With the new tools, he is also beginning to explore some of the fundamental questions that first drew him into neuroscience. |
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Dr. Lin-wen Hu wins MIT Excellence Award for Innovative SolutionsLin-wen Hu "transformed" the MIT Nuclear Reactor Laboratory (NRL) at a time when it was in need of a new mission, according to her nominator, David E. Moncton, director of the NRL. Dr. Hu was presented the Institute's 2012 Award for Innovative Solutions by President Susan Hockfield. The award citation reads: "As the associate director of research, development, and utilization at the Nuclear Reactor Laboratory, our first awardee helped redirect the lab’s mission at a critical moment. Just as its existing program in medical and biological research was being phased out, she had the vision to see emerging opportunities in the field of nuclear materials. She took the initiative to build a team at MIT capable of supporting highly sophisticated research, which led to significant growth in the use of the reactor for in-core experiments. She also reached out to colleagues across the country, enabling MIT to take on an important role as partner of the Advanced Test Reactor National Scientific User Facility, a program strongly supported by the U.S. Department of Energy. In setting the Nuclear Reactor Lab on the path to vibrant future, she has also helped to ensure that MIT will continue to attract the best graduate students in nuclear engineering.". |
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Professor Bilge Yildiz wins MISTI Global Seed Fund grantBilge Yildiz, the Norman C. Rasmussen Assistant Professor of Nuclear Science and Engineering, has been awarded a MISTI Global Seed Fund grant to collaborate with John Kilner, B.C.H.Steele Professor of Energy Materials at Imperial College, United Kingdom. Their project will examine surfaces of cathodes in solid oxide fuel cells at the atomic level. more |
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NSE’s Professor Sidney Yip wins 2012 Robert Cahn AwardEmeritus Professor Sidney Yip has been awarded the 2012 Robert Cahn Award. The award, given by the Journal of Nuclear Materials, recognizes an outstanding scientist who has a high scientific profile in the field of nuclear materials, the ability to communicate science to a broad audience, and demonstrated interest in breaking down barriers between different scientific disciplines. .... more |
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NSE’s Paola Cappellaro wins AFOSR Young Investigator AwardAssistant Professor Paola Cappellaro has been awarded an Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) grant to investigate a bottom up approach to quantum information devices that aims at overcoming current challenges to scalability .... more |
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NSE's Professor Mujid Kazimi elected to the National Academy of EngineeringFive MIT researchers — Mary Boyce, William Delaney, Elazer Edelman, Mujid Kazimi and K. Dane Wittrup — are among the 66 new members and 10 foreign associates elected to the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) on Feb. 9. MIT President Emeritus Charles M. Vest, NAE president since 2007, announced the new members today. Election to the National Academy of Engineering is among the highest professional distinctions accorded to an engineer. Academy membership honors those who have made outstanding contributions to “engineering research, practice or education, including, where appropriate, significant contributions to the engineering literature.” Mujid S. Kazimi SM ‘71, PhD ‘73, Tokyo Electric Power Company Professor of Nuclear Engineering, professor of mechanical engineering, and director of the Center for Advanced Nuclear Energy Systems, was cited for contributions to technologies for the nuclear fuel cycle and reactor safety. more |
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Frontline : Nuclear AftershocksFRONTLINE correspondent Miles O'Brien speaks with NSE faculty about the options for alternative energy sources, and questions about whether a disaster like the one at Fukushima could happen in the United States; and travels to three continents to explore the revived debate about the safety of nuclear power.video |
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Dr. Alan Hanson named Executive Director of International Nuclear Leadership Education ProgramDr. Alan S. Hanson (PhD ’77) has been appointed Executive Director of a new international executive-level nuclear leadership education course in the Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering. Over the next year Dr. Hanson will collaborate with NSE Professors Jacopo Buongiorno and Richard Lester to develop the course, which will focus on the strategies, operational practices, and technologies required to develop a successful nuclear energy program. .... more |
