• NSE Spotlights
• Awards
• NEWS ARCHIVES
  • 2023
  • 2022
• NSE SPOTLIGHT ARCHIVES
  • NSE Students
  • 2023
  • 2022
• NSE AWARDS ARCHIVES
  • 2023
  • 2022

NSE Spotlight Archives :: 2013

	Supporting NSE: Kearney Fellowship is legacy of a “Nuclear Green” Michele Kearney describes her late husband Joe, a prominent nuclear engineer and energy executive, as “one of the first nuclear Greens” — an advocate of nuclear power on environmental grounds. ... more
	INLEP: Building safe, secure, and successful nuclear energy programs NSE’s new International Nuclear Leadership Education Program, brought together leaders from emerging and established nuclear countries to discuss the challenges involved in building safe, secure, and successful nuclear energy programs. The inaugural INLEP class was made up of 8 participants from Japan, Jordan, Kenya, Nigeria, Slovakia, UAE, and Vietnam, They heard presentations from 25 experts drawn from the international nuclear community as well as the MIT faculty ... more
	NSE UROPs give Ledoux a perfect intersection for materials studies Gabrielle Ledoux came to MIT as a freshman in 2012 with a longtime interest in materials science, and a passion for research and discovery — a combination that’s finding fulfillment at MIT Nuclear Science and Engineering, where her participation in a series of investigations has led to a dual major and a Summer 2013 project that Ledoux calls “a perfect intersection of all my interests.” ... more
	Rosemary Sugrue: Tracking bubbles for improved nuclear safety Whether soloing on tenor saxophone in a jazz band, souping up a racing coupe, or serving as the lone woman operator at a nuclear power plant, Rosemary Sugrue seizes opportunities to stretch herself and learn. This second-year graduate student, who says she has always “enjoyed problem-solving, critical thinking and mechanical things,” arrived at MIT as a freshman in 2007 restless to explore new domains. ... more
	Forget helps advance computational capabilities, expand student research options in NSE’s CRPG MIT’s Computational Reactor Physics Group (CRPG) supports leading-edge research across the Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering, providing new simulation and modeling capabilities for development and refinement of nuclear reactors. So why does the group’s co-leader, Associate Prof. Benoit Forget, counsel his researchers to study the early days of computing for clues on how to accomplish their goals? ... more
	CANES: Systems-oriented knowledge helps integrate fission beyond the grid While fission reactors are among the most intricate systems in the world, engineering them to run reliably and economically is only a starting point. Fission technology must integrate not only with the energy grid, but with society as a whole, meeting stringent safety, security, and environmental expectations with oversight from well-versed managers and policymakers. ... more
	Zach Hartwig applies physics, teamwork to create new tools for fusion energy science As an undergraduate engineering student, Zach Hartwig was introduced to the methods, procedures and practices that form an engineer’s toolkit. But, he recalls, his real interest was in “the principles the tools were built on, the fundamental physics that lay behind them.” So he switched majors and became a physicist, spending the next few years working in particle physics before joining the MIT NSE doctoral program. ... more
	Jake Jurewicz: An undergraduate contributes to fusion reactor advancement Like many in the MIT community, Jake Jurewicz has felt a lifelong attraction to engineering. “Growing up, all I ever played with were Legos and Lincoln Logs, things that involved building,” he recalls. ... more