Lt. Col. Jill Rahon is a fourth-year doctoral student studying applied physics at the MIT Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering, working on engineering solutions for enforcement of nuclear nonproliferation treaties.
Having explored her options at MIT via MISTI assignments and UROPs, Zoe Fisher is focusing on Nuclear Science and Engineering, doing research at the Plasma Science and Fusion Center.
MIT Associate Professor Areg Danagoulian is using his research in nuclear physics to build new systems for detecting nuclear weapons and verifying their dismantlement.
An MIT team has developed a portable, compact, affordable version of the neutron resonance transmission analysis (NRTA) system for identifying elemental composition of nuclear and other materials which overcomes obstacles such as size and expense which have limited its on-site utility.