Over Summer 2025, MIT graduate students Yana Charoenboonvivat (Course 16 – AeroAstro) and Taylor Hampson (Course 22 – Nuclear Science and Engineering) were at NASA Glenn Research Center (GRC) and NASA Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC), respectively. Yana was a graduate pathways intern with the Thermal Energy Conversion branch, working on the Fission Surface Power…
Year: 2025
INL Starfire Workshop: The Emerging Space Nuclear Generation
On July 21-22, 2025, Idaho National Lab hosted the annual STAR FIRE Workshop at the National Atomic Testing Museum in Las Vegas, Nevada. The workshop sought to bring together a cohort of undergraduate, graduate students, and recent graduates to “present research, forge connections, and delve into the latest advancements in space fission.” The event fielded…
NETS 2025 Recap: “Solar panels give you Watts. Nuclear gives you Civilization”
Eleni Mowery, MIT NSE <etmowery@mit.edu> Several MIT students, Prof. Shirvan, and staff scientist Nesrin Cetiner attended the ANS Nuclear and Emerging Technologies for Space (NETS) conference last week, hosted by NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, AL. NETS has been held yearly since 2013, and this year hosted several hundred attendees from government, academia,…