![CAnes logo[96]](https://canes.mit.edu/hs-fs/hubfs/CAnes%20logo%5B96%5D.png?width=300&height=91&name=CAnes%20logo%5B96%5D.png "CAnes logo[96]")
Director's Desk
Jacopo Buongiorno
A member of the US National Academy of Engineering, Jacopo Buongiorno is the Battelle Energy Alliance (BEA) Professor in Nuclear Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and the Director of Science and Technology of the MIT Nuclear Reactor Laboratory. He teaches a variety of undergraduate and graduate courses in thermo-fluids engineering and nuclear reactor engineering.
Center Administration
Carolyn Carrington
Director News
- Bilge Yildiz and Jacopo Buongiorno Take Nuclear-Fueled AI to TEDx
- 3 Questions: Can a nuclear energy challenge stall decarbonization goals?
- Nuclear Fuel: The Unseen Barrier Ahead/Power
- MIT’s nuclear professional courses benefit United States—and now Australia too/Nuclear Newswire
- Visions of Nuclear-Powered Cars Captivated Cold War America, but the Technology Never Really Worked/Smithsonian Magazine
- Nuclear Power Resurgence/CQ Researcher
- Nuclear power for AI: what it will take to reopen Three Mile Island safely/ABS News
- Three Mile Island, site of 1979 nuclear reactor accident, reopening to power AI/Nature
- New life proposed for Three Mile Island supplying power to Microsoft/AP News
- Is Nuclear Already Squandering its Renaissance?/Gridlocked
- Could nuclear energy be used for transportation, like in a car?/Ask MIT Climate
- What’s the Deal with Bill Gates’s Wyoming Nuclear Plant?/Inside Climate News
- Is large-scale nuclear poised for a comeback?/Latitude Media
- A Massive U.S. Nuclear Plant Is Finally Complete. It Might Be the Last of Its Kind/WSJ
- Jacopo Buongiorno elected to NAE/MIT News
- Diving into nuclear submarines/MIT News
- A new view on nuclear energy
- How to decarbonize the world, at scale/MIT News
- Jacopo Buongiono elected 2023 NURETH Fellow
- An evolutionary shift from the local (nano) scale to the global
- Opinion: Diablo Canyon is safe, reliable and can help fight climate change/The Mercury News
- First-ever Climate Grand Challenges recognizes 27 finalists
- Wars are dangerous, reactors much less so/Nuclear Newswire
- Why California should reconsider shutting down its last nuclear plant, scientists say/CNBC
- Closing California’s last nuclear power plant would be a mistake/Washngton Post
- Options for the Diablo Canyon nuclear plant/MIT News
- Will the climate crisis force America to reconsider nuclear power?/The Economist
- American scholar: Taiwan's energy transition creates more carbon emissions/New China Times
- A Nuclear-Powered Shower? Russia Tests a Climate Innovation/The New York Times
- Nuclear Power Is the Best Climate-Change Solution by Far/WSJ
- https://bluedotliving.com/whats-so-bad-about-nuclear-energy/BlueDotLiving
- Vapor-collection technology saves water while clearing the air
- Why nuclear batteries offer a new approach to carbon-free energy/MIT News
- A nuclear battery-powered boost
- What Would Nuclear Batteries Do For Us?/Forbes
- Study identifies reasons for soaring nuclear plant cost overruns in the U.S./MIT News
- Engineers design a heated face mask to filter and inactivate coronaviruses/MIT News
- New team to lead MIT Nuclear Reactor Laboratory/MIT News
- MITEI study reports on the future of nuclear energy/MIT News
- A plan for revitalizing Japan’s nuclear energy industry
- Buongiorno to collaborate on $1.9M DOE grant to accelerate advanced nuclear technology development
- “Artificial blubber” protects divers in frigid water/MIT News
- 3 Questions: The future of nuclear energy/MIT News
- Buongiorno named 2017 Fellow of American Nuclear Society
- Buongiorno awarded grant from EDF for study on Future of Nuclear Energy in a Carbon-Constrained World
- INTERVIEW: Bold Visions for the Future of Nuclear Power
- INTERVIEW: Robots are piling up inside Fukushima's robot graveyard/CBC
- $1M Sloan Foundation grant supports NSE-led Future of Nuclear Energy Technologies study
- Bucci, Buongiorno, McKrell awarded CEA, France grant
Podcasts
