About the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is an independent, privately endowed university organized into five schools (architecture and planning; engineering; humanities, arts, and social sciences; management; and science). MIT has more than 11,000 undergraduate and graduate students and 1,000 faculty members. 

The Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering at MIT conducts research in fission, fusion, nuclear security, radiation sources, detection and measurement, modeling and simulation, and materials in extreme environments. The Center for Advanced Nuclear Energy Systems aims to hasten the development of new and transformative technologies, materials and methods that will make nuclear fission more affordable, more rapidly, securely deployable, and even safer. MIT also houses the MIT Nuclear Reactor Laboratory centered on a 6 MW MITR reactor with beam ports, automatic transfer facilities and in-core irradiation facilities. 


NUC University Lead

Charles Forsberg.pngCharles Forsberg

Principal Research Scientist, Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering

 

 

 

  • Firebrick Resistance Heated Electricity Storage (FIRES)

 

Projects with INL

Benoit Forget.pngBenoit Forget

Professor, Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering

 

 

 

  • Development of State-of-the-Art Capabilities to Support TREAT Modeling

 

​​Michael Short.pngMichael Short

Assistant Professor, Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering

 

 

 

  • Implementation and Validation of Radiation Defect Cluster Dynamics in the Multiphysics Object Oriented Simulation Environment

  

Battelle Energy Alliance Professor

Ju Li.pngJu Li

Battelle Energy Alliance Professor of Nuclear Science and Engineering

Professor of Materials Science and Engineering

 

 

Other University Contacts

Emilio Baglietto.pngEmilio Baglietto

Associate Professor, Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering

 

 

​​Jacapo Buongiorno.pngJacopo Buongiorno

Professor and Associate Department Head, Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering

 

 

Mike Golay.pngMike Golay

Professor, Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering

 

 

 

​​Kouroush Shirvan.pngKouroush Shirvan

Research Scientist, Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering

 

 

Kord Smith.pngKord Smith

Professor, Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering

 

 

Bilge Yildiz.pngBilge Yildiz

Associate Professor, Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering
Associate Professor, Department of Materials Science and Engineering

 

Anuradha Annaswamy.pngAnuradha Annaswamy

Senior Research Scientist, Department of Mechanical  Engineering

 

 

 

Donald SadowayDonald Sadoway

Professor, Department of Materials Science and Engineering

Christopher Schuh.jpg​Christopher Schuh

Department Head, Department of Materials Science and Engineering

 

Dennis Whyte.jpgDennis Whyte

Hitachi America Professor of Engineering 

Head, Dept. of Nuclear Science and Engineering
Director, Plasma Sci. and Fusion Ctr.

 

Howard Shrobe.jpg​Howard Shrobe

Principal Research Scientist, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory

Stuart Madnick.jpg​Stuart Madnick

John Norris Maguire (1960) Professor of Information Technology

Professor of Information Technology and Engineering Systems