October 16, 2025

Hadron Energy, Inc. Welcomes Professor Benoit Forget as an Advisor Supporting Breakthrough Reactor Physics Efforts

Benoit Forget
Department Head, Nuclear Science and Engineering (NSE), Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Founder, MIT Computational Reactor Physics Group (CRPG)

 

New York, NY – October 16, 2025 – Hadron Energy, Inc. (“Hadron”), a cutting-edge innovator in micro modular reactor (“MMR”) technology, today announced that an internationally recognized leader in computational reactor physics, Professor Benoit Forget, is acting as an advisor to Hadron. Professor Forget is the Department Head of Nuclear Science and Engineering at MIT and in this role is acting independently from the University. His work spans Monte Carlo and deterministic transport, multiphysics coupling, and uncertainty quantification—capabilities essential to advancing next-generation reactor design and analysis.

As founder of MIT’s Computational Reactor Physics Group (CRPG), his group led the initial developments of OpenMC, an open-source Monte Carlo neutron transport code for large-scale, high-fidelity simulations, and OpenMOC, a 3D method-of-characteristics code optimized for parallel performance. These tools are widely used across academia, government, and industry. CRPG’s advances in multiphysics coupling and uncertainty quantification enable high-accuracy steady-state and transient analyses that inform safety, licensing, and core optimization.

“Professor Forget represents the pinnacle of modern reactor physics and computational innovation,” said Samuel Gibson, Founder and CEO of Hadron Energy, Inc. “His pioneering work at MIT has fundamentally advanced how the world simulates, analyzes, and designs nuclear systems. Having Benoit join Hadron as an advisor marks a major step forward in our mission to deliver compact, high-performance microreactors built on the strongest scientific foundations. We are honored to collaborate with one of the field’s leading minds as we accelerate toward commercial deployment.”

Professor Forget’s contributions have been recognized by the American Nuclear Society with the Landis Young Member Engineering Achievement Award, and his recent selection as fellow in 2024.

Hadron recently entered into a $1.2Bn definitive business combination agreement with GigCapital7 (Nasdaq: GIG) to accelerate microreactor development and will become the first publicly traded lightwater microreactor company in the world. Professor Forget’s expertise aligns with Hadron’s mission to deploy factory-manufactured microreactors and is a timely addition to Hadron. Welcome to the team, Benoit.

About Hadron Energy, Inc.

Hadron is a pioneer in MMR technology. Designed to deliver 10 MW of power, Hadron’s MMR will be smaller, more cost-effective, and faster to deploy than other proposed MMR power solutions. The revolutionary design of Hadron’s MMR allows its reactor core and containment shell to be transportable in a shipping container, providing a versatile deployment model for end users. Whether powering an artificial intelligence data center, remote community, or an industrial hub, Hadron’s MMR is expected to provide a reliable, safe and scalable nuclear energy solution. For more information, please visit https://www.hadronenergy.com/.