From March 23 to March 24, 2015, Professors Kord Smith and Benoit Forget from the Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering, MIT, visited the School of Nuclear Science and Technology, Xi'an Jiaotong University, and conducted a nuclear reactor physics research team led by Professor Wu Hongchun. In-depth academic exchanges. Liang Li, Director of the International Exchange and Cooperation Office, and Yang Baowen, Dean of the School of Nuclear Science and Technology met with Professor Kord Smith and his delegation respectively. Both sides expressed their hope to continue to strengthen the exchange and cooperation mechanism between the two sides in the future.

On the morning of the 23rd, Professor Kord Smith introduced the current main research directions of the Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering of MIT. A wonderful academic report was made on the problems faced by the current reactor physical calculation analysis methods applied to the actual reactor analysis. Prof. Bennoit Forget introduced the current progress, theoretical models and numerical results of the well-known programs OpenMC and OpenMOC developed by his team. On the afternoon of the 23rd, the Nuclear Reactor Physics Research Team (NECP Laboratory) of Xi'an Jiaotong University introduced the general situation of the school and the college, the current research work and its progress to the two professors. Some graduate students of the NECP team introduced their research topics and conducted in-depth and detailed discussions on related issues.