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Conceptual design for Type One Energy's fusion plant
June 17, 2025

UW-Madison spinoff Type One Energy achieves milestone for fusion power plant

University of Wisconsin-Madison spinoff company Type One Energy has published a comprehensive and robust physics basis for a practical fusion pilot power plant. The advance is an important and promising milestone that brings fusion power…

May 15, 2025

In Wisconsin, Great Lakes partners are powering the next manufacturing revolution

An aggressive push to advance fusion from university experiments into energy for the real world. A new group aims to tap experts in the Midwest and beyond to capture the…

May 6, 2025

In an increasingly energy-hungry world, nuclear power is enticing.

With new interest nationally and in our state, there’s a nuclear energy renaissance in the works. Fission reactors already generate reliable and robust energy, without producing greenhouse gas emissions. Nuclear…

Industrial steel pipes iStock
April 21, 2025

A faster, cheaper way to restore stainless steel’s corrosion resistance

Found in everything from kitchen appliances to sustainable energy infrastructure, stainless steels are used extensively due to their excellent corrosion (rusting) resistance. They’re important material in many industries, including manufacturing,…

April 14, 2025

From energy hogs to eco-havens

Today’s massive data centers have become a necessary evil in our information-driven lives. Here are a handful of ideas that can make them future-friendly. In September 2024, tech giant Microsoft…

Shea McCarthy working in the lab
February 26, 2025

Extracurricular opportunities help NEEP undergrad decide career path

Students in the Department of Nuclear Engineering and Engineering Physics (NEEP) can take advantage of many opportunities beyond the classroom to enrich their learning, such as participating in undergraduate research,…

Juliana Duarte discusses nuclear power
January 10, 2025

Ask an expert: Juliana Duarte discusses what’s on the horizon for nuclear in the nation’s overall energy landscape

Juliana Duarte is an assistant professor of nuclear engineering and engineering physics. Her research focuses on thermal hydraulics, which concerns heat transfer through fluids within nuclear reactors. Duarte also studies…

Dean Eric Wilcots, Dean Frances Vavrus, NIFS Director General Zensho Yoshida, College of Engineering executive associate dean David A. Noyce
October 4, 2024

UW-Madison, Japan’s National Institute for Fusion Science strengthen research partnership

University of Wisconsin-Madison and Japan’s National Institute for Fusion Science (NIFS) leaders have signed task agreements that will strengthen collaboration and cooperation between the two institutions to advance science and…

Charlie Hirst
September 18, 2024

Focus on new faculty: Charles Hirst enables better materials for fission and fusion reactors

While studying materials science at the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom, Charles Hirst had an a-ha moment that led him on a path to investigating nuclear materials for…

Phillip A Levy Engineering Center spelled out on the entrance of the new UW-Madison College of Engineering Building
September 11, 2024

With $75 million gift for new UW-Madison engineering building, brothers’ impact spans generations and transcends campus boundaries

A historic $75 million gift will fuel construction of a much-needed new engineering building at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. With their lead gift—the largest single gift in college history—brothers and…