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NSE at a glance

HIGHLIGHTS

Degrees offered

• Nuclear Science & Engineering | Bachelors, Masters, Nuclear Engineer, PhD, ScD
• Engineering | Bachelors
• LGO-NSE Dual MBA-Masters of Science Program
• Computational Nuclear Science & Engineering | Joint PhD

Fall 2021 enrollment = 130

• 103 Graduate students
• 27 Undergraduates

Degrees granted, AY 2020–21 = 25

• 5 SB
• 4 SM
• 16 PhD

Graduate student support

• 65 RAs. 2.5 TAs. 10.5 Internal NSE fellowships
• 16 Competitive external (non-MIT) fellowships
• 9 MIT-awarded fellowships + self-supported

Faculty + Academic Research Staff = 53.5

• 18.5 Tenured & Tenure-track Professors
  • 5 assistant, 4 associate, 9.5 full professors
  • 4 new faculty hired in the last 5 years
• 1 Joint Professor
• 6 Active Emeritus Professors
• 1 Principal Research Scientist
• 8 Research Scientists
• 19 Post-doctoral Fellows/Associates

Indicators of Quality

• 6 National Academy of Engineering
• 6 National Faculty Early Career Awards
• 16 Graduate students holding nationally competitive fellowships
• 2021 Awards

Instructional & Research Areas

• Advanced reactor design and innovation
• Nuclear fuel cycle and waste management technology
• Plasma physics and fusion
• Materials in extreme environments
• Advanced computation and simulation
• Radiation sources, detection, and control
• Nuclear security
• Nuclear economics, management, and policy

Professional Education

• Reactor Technology Course for Utility Executives
• Nuclear Energy: Facts and Issues
• Nuclear Plant Safety Course
• Risk-Informed Operational Decision Management

Research funding = $ 31.1 million in FY21

NSE-Affiliated Research Centers

• Center for Advanced Nuclear Energy Systems (CANES)
• Plasma Science and Fusion Center
• MIT Nuclear Reactor Laboratory (6 MW reactor)
• Industrial Performance Center

Research Laboratories

• Center for Science and Technology with Accelerators and Radiation
• Computational Reactor Physics Group
• Concrete Sustainability Hub
• H.H.Uhlig Corrosion Laboratory
• Laboratory for Advanced Modeling and Simulation
• Laboratory for Electrochemical Interfaces
• Laboratory for Innovation in Fusion Technologies
• Laboratory for Nuclear Security and Policy
• Laboratory for Reactor Thermal Hydraulics (The Red Lab)
• Nuclear Innovation in Fission Technologies (NIFT)
• Quantum Engineering Group
• Quantum Matter Group

Collaborating MIT Academic & Research Units

• Departments of Biological Engineering, Materials Science and Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Physics, Political Science, and Science, Technology and Society
• Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL)
• Laboratory for Nuclear Science
• MIT Energy Initiative
• MIT Nuclear Reactor Laboratory (6 MW reactor)
• MIT Quest for Intelligence
• Research Laboratory of Electronics
• Schwarzman College of Computing

Major Partnerships

• Advanced Nuclear and Production Experts Group (ANPEG)
• Fluoride-Salt High Temperature Reactor Consortium
• Institute for Nuclear Power Operations
• National Nuclear Security Administration
• US National Labs: INL, ORNL, Sandia, Argonne, LLNL, BNL

September 2021

Nina Levine: Toward a more secure world

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MIT-designed project achieves major advance toward fusion energy

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Madhumitha Ravichandran: The boiling crisis — and how to avoid it

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Why “nuclear batteries” offer a new approach to carbon-free energy

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W Robb Stewart: Waging a two-pronged campaign against climate change

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