MIT’s Approach to Collaboration

1. MIT’s Approach to Collaboration Ekaterina Paramonova MIT Graduate Student

2. 4 Strategies: • Consulting • Research Partnerships • Nuclear Classes • Conferences

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

4. 1. Consulting

5. 2. Research Partnerships • 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 • CASL: The Consortium for Advanced Simulation of Light Water Reactors

6. The CASL Team: A unique lab-university-industry 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 “Forge a close, cohesive, and interdependent team that is fully committed to a well-defined plan of action” ~230 people 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 Pennsylvania State University Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Strategic Business Processes, Inc. Texas A&M University University of Florida University of Notre Dame University of Tennessee, Knoxville University of Wisconsin

7. 2. Research Partnerships

8. 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

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

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

11. 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 CO2 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

12. 4 Strategies: • Consulting • Research Partnerships • Nuclear Classes • Conferences Create a community and engage all of the stakeholders.