• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to footer
Engineering Research News

Engineering Research News

  • Find Stories
  • For Journalists
  • About

Nuclear Energy

Kate McAlpineApril 19, 2022

Honoring the past and sizing up nuclear’s future at the Phoenix rededication

The Michigan Memorial Phoenix Project, conceived as a war memorial following World War II, remains relevant in the face of climate change and international conflict.

Kate McAlpineDecember 20, 2021

Nuclear “shadow corrosion” reproduced in the lab, paving way to longer fuel life

Now that it’s understood, researchers are on their way to preventing this type of degradation in nuclear power plants.

Zach RobertsonApril 23, 2021

Biden’s climate pledge: Engineers offer insights

Experts on electric vehicles, carbon capture and sequestration, and nuclear energy weigh in.

Jim LynchApril 30, 2018

Recreating supernova reaction yields new insights for fusion energy

Our pursuit of fusion needs a heat-check

Kate McAlpineMarch 9, 2017

Lasers can detect weapons-grade uranium from afar

Researchers have shown that a technique often used to identify chemicals at a distance could help sniff out illicit nuclear activities from as far as a couple miles away.

Footer

  • Find Stories
  • For journalists
  • About
  • Subscribe (RSS)
  • U-M Engineering home
  • Strategic vision
  • Graduate & professional
  • Undergraduate
  • Campus news & events

© The Regents of the University of Michigan Ann Arbor, MI 48109 USA

Privacy Policy | Non-Discrimination Policy | Campus Safety

  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • LinkedIn
  • Twitter
  • YouTube