Researchers will work with industrial collaborators to pursue fusion as a source of carbon-free power.

Goal is for research to produce a working pilot plant within 15 years.

Jacopo Buongiorno and John Parsons, co-directors of the MITEI Low-Carbon Energy Center for Advanced Nuclear Energy Systems, discuss how to overcome the challenges and realize the benefits of expanding nuclear power.

Study finds that turbulence competes in fusion plasmas to rapidly respond to temperature perturbations.

Technology developed at MIT can harness temperature fluctuations of many kinds to produce electricity.

MISTI places MIT students in energy-focused internships abroad.

Panel at MIT explores benefits, costs, and political challenges.

MIT researchers are optimizing nanostructures for energy devices such as solar cells.

New metal-mesh membrane could solve longstanding problems and lead to inexpensive power storage.

New model measures characteristics of carbon nanotube structures for energy storage and water desalination applications.