MITs Approach to Collaboration Ekaterina Paramonova MIT Graduate

MIT’s Approach to Collaboration Ekaterina Paramonova MIT Graduate Student

4 Strategies: 1. Consulting 2. Research Partnerships 3. Nuclear Classes 4. Conferences

1. Consulting What? • Professors consult industry, Department of Energy, etc. Why? • Learn about industry needs • Show our capabilities • Establish connections

1. Consulting

2. Research Partnerships CASL: The Consortium for Advanced Simulation of Light Water Reactors What? • Department of Energy Innovation Hub for Modeling & Simulation of Nuclear Reactors Why? • Bring all of the stakeholders together • Work on projects needed by the industry

The CASL Team: A unique lab-universityindustry consortium Core partners Oak Ridge National Laboratory Electric Power Research Institute Idaho National Laboratory Los Alamos National Laboratory Massachusetts Institute of Technology North Carolina State University Sandia National Laboratories Tennessee Valley Authority University of Michigan Westinghouse Electric Company Individual contributors Anatech ASCOMP CD-adapco City College of New York Core Physics, Inc. Imperial College London, UK Florida State University Pacific Northwest National Laboratory “Forge a close, Pennsylvania State University cohesive, and interdependent Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Strategic Business Processes, team Inc. that is fully committed Texas A&M University to a well-defined plan of University of Florida action” University of Notre Dame ~230 people University of Tennessee, Knoxville University of Wisconsin 6

2. Research Partnerships

3. Nuclear Classes offered at MIT What? • Bring in professionals from the US and abroad • MIT professors and industry experts teach nuclear concepts Why? • Establish connections • Train executives who have little background in nuclear about nuclear

3. Nuclear Classes offered at MIT • • Reactor Technology Course for Utility Executives International Nuclear Leadership Education Program Nuclear Plant Safety Nuclear Operational Risk Management

4. Conferences and Symposia What? • American Nuclear Society biannual conferences • MIT-organized symposia • Present research and discuss projects Why? • Establish connections between industry, university faculty, regulator, students, etc.

4. Conferences and Symposia • • • • MIT Symposium on Advanced LWR Fuels Nuclear Power in 2050 Innovation In Nuclear Energy Technology Second Tokyo Tech-MIT Symposium Fifty Years of Nuclear Science and Engineering at MIT Supercritical CO 2 Power Cycle for Next Generation Systems R&D Priorities for Advanced Reactors Supercritical Water Reactors Review MIT-Tokyo Tech Symposium on Innovative Nuclear Energy System Next Generation Nuclear Plant The Role of Simulation in the Nuclear Fuel Cycle Nuclear Energy and the Hydrogen Economy International Symposium on the Role of Nuclear Energy in a Sustainable Environment

4 Strategies: 1. Consulting 2. Research Partnerships 3. Nuclear Classes 4. Conferences Create a community and engage all of the stakeholders.