The MIT research reactor: An early NSUF partner facility

Celebrating its 60th birthday in 2018, MITR specializes in first-of-a-kind experiments.

Leda Zimmerman

April 5, 2018

Milestone for new LEU research reactor fuel

The US National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) has submitted to the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission a preliminary report on a new uranium fuel that will enable the conversion of six US research reactors from highly enriched uranium to low-enriched uranium.  

World Nuclear News

March 14, 2018

MIT NRL and NSE restore historic graphite pile as an education and research tool

David Chandler, MIT News Office

January 22, 2018

Sarah Don: Building connections

MIT Reactor superintendent aims to give more students the opportunity to work with and learn from the reactor

Stefanie Koperniak

October 16, 2017

MIT Nuclear Reactor Laboratory launches seed grant program

Stefanie Koperniak

September 22, 2017

Gordon Kohse: Multidimensional mission at the boundary of science and engineering

Leda Zimmerman

September 8, 2017

Becky Romatoski: Reducing risk

Leda Zimmerman

June 2, 2017

Bill McCarthy Recipient of 2017 MIT Excellence Award for Innovative Solutions

Bill McCarthy, a Deputy Director of EHS and Reactor Radiation Protection Officer at the NRL, received the Excellence Award for Innovative Solutions at the 2017 MIT Excellence Awards Ceremony.

Taylor Tracy, NRL

May 3, 2017

David Carpenter: Purpose-driven to the core

Leda Zimmerman

April 10, 2017

MIT’s Nuclear Lab has an Unusual Plan to Jump-Start Advanced-Reactor Research

James Temple, MIT Technology Review

March 30, 2017

Sara Hauptman: Learning on the job

Leda Zimmerman

February 21, 2017

NSE Professor and NRL Staff Receive Grant to Upgrade Post-Irradiation Examination Capabilities

Michael Ames, NRL

October 20, 2016

NRL Mechanical Engineer, Adam Grein, Recipient of 2016 MIT Infinite Mile Award

NRL Mechanical Engineer and Shift Supervisor, Adam Grein, was a recipient of the 2016 MIT Infinite Mile Award.

John Foster and Taylor Tracy, NRL

July 7, 2016

NRL Engineer Coaches Winning Teams at National Pistol Championship

Michael Ames, NRL

June 29, 2016

Congratulations to Our Two Newly Licensed Reactor Operators

Tim Leurini and Keith Honeycutt received their NRC licenses for the MITR

John Foster, NRL

June 10, 2016

Photos from our Nuclear Science and Technology Q&A MIT Open House Event

On April 23rd the NRL hosted a Nuclear Science and Technology Q&A event as part of MIT’s Open House. Here are pictures from the event!

Taylor Tracy, NRL

May 10, 2016

Novel in-core crack growth test conducted at the MIT Reactor

An INL / MIT-NRL team designs, develops, and demonstrates the first system in the U.S. that can perform real-time high-temperature, aqueous, crack growth tests in the core of a research reactor.

A. J. Palmer, INL

March 30, 2016

David Moncton: From MIT graduate student to NRL Director

March 25, 2016

Reviving a 40-year-old nuclear reactor coolant

The MIT NRL is involved in two collaborative research projects that are aimed at a high-tech revival of a nuclear reactor coolant that has not been used since 1969.

Michael Ames and David Carpenter, NRL

March 16, 2016

Lin-wen Hu: Innovating the present while looking towards the future

Lin-wen Hu first became interested in nuclear energy during a high school physics class in her home country of Taiwan.

Taylor Tracy, NRL

March 8, 2016