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PostDecember 17, 2020

Want cheaper nuclear energy? Turn the design process into a game

In this AI-designed layout for a boiling water reactor, fuel rods in the assembly are ideally positioned around two fixed water rods to burn more efficiently. MIT researchers ran the equivalent of 36,000 simulations to find the optimal configuration, which could extend the life of the rods in an assembly by about 5 percent, generating $3 million in savings per year if scaled to the full reactor. Colors correspond to varying amounts of uranium and gadolinium oxide in each rod.

PostDecember 9, 2020

Amanda Hubbard honored with Secretary of Energy’s Appreciation Award

Plasma Science and Fusion Center

MIT Principal Research Scientist Amanda Hubbard received a 2020 Secretary of Energy's Appreciation Award during a virtual ceremony last month.

PostNovember 24, 2020

Six MIT faculty elected 2020 AAAS Fellows

Clockwise from top left: Nazli Choucri, Catherine Drennan, Peter Fisher, Daniela Rus, Ju Li, and Neil Gershenfeld.

PostNovember 18, 2020

Powering through the coming energy transition

According to more than half of the models cited in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Fifth Assessment Report, carbon capture and storage will be required to realize the Paris goal, but to what extent will it need to be deployed to ensure that outcome?

PostNovember 18, 2020

Study identifies reasons for soaring nuclear plant cost overruns in the U.S...

A new study covering 50 years of U.S. nuclear power plant construction data found that, contrary to expectations, building plants based on existing designs actually costs more, rather than less, than building plants based on new designs. This photo shows a construction site of a new modern nuclear power plant.

PostNovember 13, 2020

Commercializing next-generation nuclear energy technology

A rendering of Oklo's first nuclear power plant, dubbed the Aurora, that will be built at the Idaho National Laboratory.

PostNovember 6, 2020

Pushing the envelope with fusion magnets

David Fischer sits beside the experiment’s vacuum chamber (illuminated in blue), where the high temperature superconductor tapes will be mounted for proton irradiation and in situ transport current measurement. His laptop shows data obtained in such measurements — the basis for determining the critical current.

PostOctober 13, 2020

Superconductor technology for smaller, sooner fusion

MIT Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering

Cable assembly is long, thin, metalic.

PostOctober 7, 2020

Undergraduates ramp up research during pandemic diaspora

For nuclear science and engineering undergraduate researchers Charlotte Wickert, Mriganka Mandal, and Natalie Montoya, exile from campus spurred deeper exploration of known territory, and rewarding forays into less familiar disciplines.

PostSeptember 30, 2020

Validating the physics behind the new MIT-designed fusion experiment

Plasma Science and Fusion Center

This image shows a cutaway rendering of SPARC, a compact, high-field, DT burning tokamak, currently under design by a team from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Commonwealth Fusion Systems. Its mission is to create and confine a plasma that produces net fusion energy. Credits:Image: CFS/MIT-PSFC — CAD Rendering by T. Henderson

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