Magnesium aluminate, also known MAS, is a material that stands out among the ceramic materials, mainly due to the possibility of combining transparency with high hardness and good resistance to thermal shock. Normally, for applications using this material, sintering techniques under high pressure (GPa) and long periods of time (hours) are used. Thus, obtaining parts with low porosity after sintering without high pressure, as well as using fast sintering are very interesting from a technological point of view. The possibility of obtaining nanometric powder of magnesium aluminate, thus enabling lower sintering temperatures, thus being able to obtain a reduction in grain growth, providing an improvement in the mechanical and optical properties of MAS, combined with an energy saving, can leverage the use, already vast, of this material for countless applications. Since the action of SiO2 as a sintering additive is attributed to a liquid phase formation, a small amount of additive such as Si and / or Na can favor densification through the formation of a viscous glassy film, which together with the nanometric state of particles and the refractoriness of MAS has the potential for rapid densification. This work presents the characterization of nanometric powders of pure magnesium aluminate, or doped with sodium or sodium and silicon, in molar concentrations of 0.5%, 1.0%, 1.5% and 2.0%, obtained by chemical synthesis via aqueous coprecipitation method, calcination at 800 ºC for 5 hours, and sintered in different ways: fast firing at 1400 ºC for 2 minutes, sintering at 1400 ºC for 2 hours. The results obtained indicate that after fast firing or sintering, doping helped to reduce grain growth, compared to pure material under the same conditions of calcination and sintering. The results showed that the sintering process of MAS doped with NaOH or Na2SiO3 can be conducted at temperatures lower than other doping agents, and the material with the best characteristics was with MAS doped with 1.0% Na2SiO3.