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PostFebruary 18, 2025

Unlocking the secrets of fusion’s core with AI-enhanced simulations

Plasma Science and Fusion Center

AI-enhanced simulations are helping researchers at MIT’s Plasma Science and Fusion Center decode the turbulent behavior of plasma inside fusion devices like ITER, bringing us closer to a viable future for fusion energy.

PostFebruary 7, 2025

Cleaning up critical minerals and materials production, using microwave pla...

6K’s microwave plasma technology, called UniMelt, uses beams of tightly controlled thermal plasma to melt or vaporize precursor materials into particles with precise sizes and crystalline phases. Pictured is a photo from 6K’s factory showing some of its large plasma equipment.

PostJanuary 24, 2025

How to make small modular reactors more cost-effective

MIT Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering

“I really do believe nuclear energy is going to be a leading carbon-free energy. It’s very important for our collective futures,” says Youyeon Choi, a doctoral student in MIT's Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering.

PostJanuary 21, 2025

The multifaceted challenge of powering AI

MIT Energy Initiative

There are now over 5,000 data centers in the United States, like this one in northern Virginia, and new ones are being built every day.

PostJanuary 7, 2025

How hard is it to prevent recurring blackouts in Puerto Rico?

Hurricane Maria ravaged this neighborhood in Vega Alta, Puerto Rico.

PostJanuary 3, 2025

At MIT, Clare Grey stresses battery development to electrify the planet

Dame Clare Grey, Royal Society research professor and the Geoffrey Moorhouse-Gibson Professor of Chemistry at Cambridge University, delivered the 2024 Mildred S. Dresselhaus Lecturer on Nov. 18.

PostJanuary 2, 2025

Unlocking the hidden power of boiling — for energy, space, and beyond

Uncovering the physics of boiling could enable advances in efficient energy production, electronics cooling, water desalination, medical diagnostics, and more.

PostDecember 17, 2024

MIT spinout Commonwealth Fusion Systems unveils plans for the world’s fir...

Commonwealth Fusion Systems’ new fusion power plant is expected to come online in the early 2030s and generate about 400 megawatts of clean, carbon-free electricity — enough to power large industrial sites or about 150,000 homes.

PostDecember 13, 2024

In a unique research collaboration, students make the case for less e-waste...

Left to right: Anastasia Duncan, Chris Rabe, and Jasmin Liu stand at the loading dock of MIT's Stata Center, where students and faculty go "crufting." Rabe facilitated an interdisciplinary working group of undergraduate and graduate students known as SERC Scholars to co-author a case study on the electronic hardware waste life cycle and climate justice.

PostNovember 26, 2024

Decarbonizing heavy industry with thermal batteries

The electrically conductive firebricks could help hard-to-decarbonize sectors utilize renewable energy for the first time.

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