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TIL About Nuclear Energy

TILclimate Podcast on Nuclear Energy with NRL Director of Science and Technology, Jacopo Buongiorno

FS-3 Installation at Reactor Top

Back to the future: Researchers at MIT's Nuclear Reactor Lab help revive a salt-based nuclear energy technology abandoned decades ago

Gordon Kohse, Jacopo Buongiorno, and Lance Snead

New team to lead MIT Nuclear Reactor Laboratory (MIT News)

Kieran Dolan

Kieran Dolan: A vision of nuclear energy buoyed by molten salt

NRL researchers Mike Ames, David Carpenter, and Kaichao Sun in the TREAT facility control room

NRL and INL researchers test new radiation sensors at recently restarted TREAT facility

Final assembly of an in-core experiment at MITR

The MIT research reactor: An early NSUF partner facility

 

NRL staff are currently working remotely and are responding to all inquiries

News

TIL About Nuclear Energy

TILclimate Podcast on Nuclear Energy with NRL Director of Science and Technology, Jacopo Buongiorno

FS-3 Installation at Reactor Top

Back to the future: Researchers at MIT's Nuclear Reactor Lab help revive a salt-based nuclear energy technology abandoned decades ago

Gordon Kohse, Jacopo Buongiorno, and Lance Snead

New team to lead MIT Nuclear Reactor Laboratory (MIT News)

Agata Wiśniowska

A "second home": Agata Wiśniowska sustains her decade-plus connection to the MIT Nuclear Reactor Lab

Announcements

Molten salt solutions may supply scientists with new insights into nuclear energy

NRL collaborating with X-energy for TRISO-X fuel irradiation

NRL receives ARPA-E funding for molten salt proposal

NRL Seed Program

MIT Faculty and Research Staff may now apply for limited no-cost access to a variety of services for experiments utilizing the MITR and its facilities through the NRL Seed program.

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