Enhanced nuclear energy online class aims to inform and inspire

Nuclear Energy: A Massive Open Online Course, which was launched by the MIT Department of Nuclear Energy and attracted enrollment from users in 137 countries, attracted more than 3,000 students.

Science, Systems, and Society, which premiered on MITx last year.The course will now be offered once more in spring 2020 with significant enhancements after a rousing success.

According to Jacopo Buongiorno, the TEPCO Professor of Nuclear Science and Engineering and one of the course instructors, “We had hoped there was an appetite in the general public for information about nuclear energy and technology.”This first offering provided us with complete assurance.