Nuclear science and engineering

Senior research scientist Jay Kesner stands by the now-operational LDX fusion reactor, in which a series of experiments are being run.

MIT tests unique approach to fusion power

Mimicking Earth's magnetic field in a giant thermos bottle

March 19, 2008

Graduate students Dan Casey and Mario Manuel, left, and senior research scientist Richard Petrasso of the MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center with the detector used to study implosions that recreate the high temperatures and densities found inside stars.

New 'snapshots' aid quest for fusion energy

February 28, 2008

John Meyer, nuclear engineer, 76

February 6, 2008

Professors disagree with article

September 19, 2007

Not so super-cool after all: MIT researchers knock down theory about nanofluids

August 29, 2007

Stephen Ansolabehere in MIT's Power Plant Facility

Americans warming to nuclear power - MIT survey

July 23, 2007

MIT biology, physics and nuclear science professors honored

July 3, 2007

Nuclear Science & Engineering awards

June 6, 2007

School of Engineering awards

June 6, 2007

Course focuses on transportation of spent nuclear fuel

April 17, 2007

Navy's nuclear director will discuss national security

April 9, 2007

Lack of fuel may limit U.S. nuclear power expansion

March 21, 2007

Academy of Engineering elects 5 from MIT

February 14, 2007

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Reactor upgrades help researchers study nuclear fusion as energy source

February 8, 2007

Three Mile Island--failure of science or spin?

An IAP session reviews the 1979 crisis

January 26, 2007

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