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PostNovember 5, 2025

What should countries do with their nuclear waste?

The researchers also investigated the effect of environmental regulations and technologies related to I-129 management, to illuminate the tradeoffs associated with different approaches around the world.

PostOctober 31, 2025

Using classic physical phenomena to solve new problems

MIT Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering

Marco Graffiedi’s work in the Red Lab primarily focuses is on quenching, which will play an important role in refueling in space — and in the cooling of nuclear cores.

PostOctober 29, 2025

Burning things to make things

MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering

Associate Professor Sili Deng

PostOctober 20, 2025

MIT Maritime Consortium releases “Nuclear Ship Safety Handbook”

MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering

"The Nuclear Ship Safety Handbook" co-authors (left to right) Anthony Valiaveedu, Nat Edmonds, and Jose Izurieta pose in MIT's Hart Naval Gallery.

PostOctober 17, 2025

School of Engineering welcomes new faculty in 2024-25

Top row, left to right: Masha Folk, Sophia Henneberg, Omar Khattab, and Tania Lopez Silva. Bottom row, left to right: Ethan Peterson, Daniel Varon, Dean Price, and Raphael Zufferey.

PostOctober 8, 2025

How to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from ammonia production

MIT Energy Initiative

MIT researchers have proposed an approach for combined blue-green ammonia production that minimizes waste products and, when combined with some other simple upgrades, could reduce the greenhouse emissions from ammonia production by as much as 63 percent, compared to the leading “low-emissions” approach being used today.

PostOctober 7, 2025

New prediction model could improve the reliability of fusion power plants

MIT researchers have developed a prediction model that could improve the safety and reliability of tokamak fusion reactors.

PostOctober 3, 2025

Secretary of Energy Chris Wright ’85 visits MIT

U.S. Secretary of Energy Chris Wright ’85 visited the MIT campus on Sept. 29. Wright earned a BS in mechanical engineering and spent two and a half years pursuing graduate studies in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science before leaving to become an entrepreneur in the energy industry.

PostOctober 1, 2025

Palladium filters could enable cheaper, more efficient generation of hydrog...

Palladium plug membrane at the end of the membrane fabrication process (left). Dashed green lines outline the membrane. Scanning electron microscopy image of the membrane shows the palladium plugs embedded inside the pores of the silica support (right).

PostSeptember 23, 2025

MIT’s work with Idaho National Laboratory advances America’s nuclear in...

Collaboration between researchers at MIT and the Idaho National Laboratory has led to new fuels, next-generation reactor designs, and progress toward the first reactor in space.

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