Kent F. Hansen

Professor of Nuclear Science and Engineering (Emeritus)

kfhansen@mit.edu
617-253-7384
617-253-8531 (fax)
24-204

Education

S.B., Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1953
Sc.D., Nuclear Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1958

Reactor physics, numerical methods, modeling of physical and social systems.

Modeling of nuclear power plant operations
Modeling of social/political determinants of nuclear energy policy
Modeling of R&D processes

Nuclear Reactor Physics, System Dynamics.

Director of Stone & Webster Inc. and EG&G, Inc.

Fellow of ANS
Member of National Academy of Engineering

"Allocating R&D Resources," Research Technology Management, July 1999, Vol. 42, No. 4.
"System Dynamics Modeling of Social/Political Factors in Nuclear Power Plant Operations," Proceedings of International Conference on Mathematics and Computations, Reactor Physics, and Environmental Analyses, ANS, April 1995.