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.
Benoit Forget has been named head of MIT's Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering. The computational reactor physics expert succeeds Professor Anne White.
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.