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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. Just as the lab's program in medical and biological research was being phased out, Hu took the initiative to build up the NRL's capability to conduct research in nuclear materials, work that led to significant growth in the use of the reactor for in-core experiments. She also reached out to colleagues at the national level to develop a collaboration that has enabled MIT to take on an important role as partner of the Advanced Test Reactor National Scientific User Facility. As a result, Moncton said, the lab now has an even more promising future. "She possesses a spectrum of skills that are unusual," Moncton said. "She cares a lot about mentoring, she's worked with a lot of students, she's an excellent scientist in her own right, and she's a good manager.". more |
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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 |
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How to kick-start new energy technologiesThe world desperately needs innovation in energy technologies — but those innovations are unlikely to happen by themselves. A three-year study by a team of researchers based at MIT has now identified a suite of policy and investment strategies that could accelerate innovation in the United States, helping to meet our growing energy needs affordably and reliably, reducing carbon emissions and alleviating insecurity over energy supplies .... more |
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NSE Professor Emeritus Parker recognized for outstanding career contributions to fusion developmentProfessor Emeritus Ron Parker was awarded FPA's Distinguished Career Award at the Fusion Power Associates 32nd Annual Meeting and Symposium in Washington, DC., on Dececember 14–15, 2011.... more |
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NSE wins award for laboratory safetyNSE has won the “Environmental, Health and Safety Special Recognition Award” by MIT’s Environment, Health and Safety Office. The award, “for excellence in achieving the standards of MIT’s Environment, Health and Safety Management System”, is given annually to a Department, Laboratory, or Center which successfully implements and executes the standards of safety outlined by the EHS office. Congratulations to Dr. Thomas McKrell, NSE’s EHS coordinator, for leading the Department’s efforts in this area. Dr. McKrell heads a team of EHS representatives in the Department which includes Professor Linn Hobbs, Dr. Gordon Kohse, Dr. Richard Lanza, Dr. Peter Stahle and Dr. Yan Chen. |
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New NSE strategy strengthens core, opens boundaries; seeks better integration of technical and societal issuesNuclear technology is inextricably bound up with great issues — energy, international security, climate change, and the environment, to name a few. MIT’s Nuclear Science and Engineering department, as part of a broad re-orientation, has put in place a new strategic plan ... more |
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IPC Forum on Energy Innovation discusses new ways of developing clean, reliable, affordable US energy suppliesEnergy is the lifeblood of the industrialized world, providing light, heat, transport, and thousands of vital benefits. But energy dependence also creates a complex collection of challenges, including carbon emissions that are tightly linked to climate change, oil spills, nuclear accidents, economic pressures, and regional and global political tensions. more |
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NSE grad students Dewan and Massie speak at TEDx New EnglandLeslie Dewan and Mark Massie have invented a new type of nuclear reactor, the Waste-Annihilating Molten Salt Reactor, that can help solve the nuclear waste problem. The WAMSR consumes nuclear waste as it turns it into electricity, reducing the mass of the high-level actinide waste by up to 98%. more |
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NSE team presents winning poster at MITEI Seed Funds Research ConferenceAn NSE five-member research team was awarded first place for their poster entitled High-Temperature Salts for Solar Thermal Electricity Production and High-Temperature Nuclear Heat Storage more |
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MIT wins $7.5M DOE grant to develop a new generation of advanced reactorsMIT has been awarded $7.5 million as part of a new initiative by the Department of Energy to support research and development on the next generation of nuclear technologies. more |
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NSE collaborates in developing nuclear security curriculum for graduate educationMIT has been awarded $2.4 million by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to develop a program for university-level nuclear security education. more |
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Findings could lead to better hydrogen storageHydrogen has long been considered a promising alternative to fossil fuels for powering cars, trucks and even homes. But one major obstacle has been finding lightweight, robust and inexpensive ways of storing the gas, whose atoms are so tiny they can easily escape from many kinds of containers. more |
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Richard K. Osborn Memorial Lectureship EndowedA generous gift from NSE Professor Sidney Yip has endowed the Richard K. Osborn Memorial Lectureship in the Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences Department at the University of Michigan. more |
