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Division Spotlight
Fuel Cycle & Waste Management
Devoted to all aspects of the nuclear fuel cycle including waste management, worldwide. Division specific areas of interest and involvement include uranium conversion and enrichment; fuel fabrication, management (in-core and ex-core) and recycle; transportation; safeguards; high-level, low-level and mixed waste management and disposal; public policy and program management; decontamination and decommissioning environmental restoration; and excess weapons materials disposition.
Meeting Spotlight
2021 ANS Winter Meeting and Technology Expo
November 30–December 3, 2021
Washington, DC|Washington Hilton
Standards Program
The Standards Committee is responsible for the development and maintenance of voluntary consensus standards that address the design, analysis, and operation of components, systems, and facilities related to the application of nuclear science and technology. Find out What’s New, check out the Standards Store, or Get Involved today!
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NNSA awards SHINE $35 million for Mo-99 production
The Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration has issued a cooperative agreement worth $35 million to SHINE Technologies, based in Janesville, Wis., to support the commercial production of molybdenum-99, a critical isotope used in more than 40,000 medical procedures in the United States each day, including the diagnosis of heart disease and cancer.
2021
D. V. Rao
2019
Jim KinseyMark Holbrook and Wayne Moe
2015
Richard K. Lester
2014
Mitchell Farmer
2013
Richard Denning
2012
Margaret E. Harding
2011
Mario D. Carelli
2010
Ernest D. EasonG. Robert OdetteRandy K. NanstadTakuya Yamamoto and Joyce E. Wright.
2008
Terry L. Schulz
2006
Chien Chang (Johnny) Lin
2005
David I. PostonTerry Kammash
2002
Charles W. Forsberg
2001
Richard Rhodes
2000
Barth DoroshukJohn RycynaMarvin BowmanDonis Shaw
1999
Bertrand Tavitian
1998
Raymond W. Durante
1997
Bruno SicardHerve BernardJean-Paul Chaudat and Jacques Bourges
1996
Bernard L. Cohen
1995
J. Neil Rutger
1994
Jerry D. Christian
1992
Eric McFarland
1991
H. "Peter" PlanchonJohn I. Sackett
1990
Jean Francois PineauAllain RannouMarie-Christine Robe
1989
Louis Saint-Lebe
1988
Bruce D. Kenyon
1987
John O'Sullivan
1986
Glen J. SchoessowAlfred C. Tollison, Jr.James D. Vandergrift
1985
Milton LevensonWilliam R. StrattonEdward Warman
1984
Michael E. PhelpsTeam: Thomas F. BudingerStephen E. Derenzo and Ronald H. Huseman
1983
Jack E. Vessely and John M. ArmaralTeam of Leonard ReichleBenjamin TenzerBertrand MazoHonorable Mention to Maurice G. Silk and team of Gary DauWilliam J. CollinsMohamed Behravesh
1982
Allison M. Platt and team of R. BonniaudN. Jacquet-FrancillonA. JouanF. Laude and C. Sombret
1981
Loft/Semiscale Project and D.O. CampbellA.P. MalinauskasW.R. Stratton
1980
Cyril Comar (posthumous)
1979
Yankee Atomic Electric Company
1978
Experimental Breeder Reactor (EBR-II) Project Team
1977
J.O. BiomekeF. CullerJ. BlomekeD.E. Ferguson and R. Wymer
1976
Norman C. Rasmussen
1975
Edward G. Struxness
1974
Watler Meyer
1973
G. Robert Keepin
1972
Lendell E. Steele
1970
Ely M. Gelbard
1969
Arthur G. Ward
1968
W. Wayne Meinke
1967
Warren R. GromesPaul Cohen
1966
Jack ChernickMark Nelkin
1965
Benjamin Lustman
1964
V.P. GuinnG.W. LedicotteR.M. WalterP.B. Price and R.L. Fleischer
1963
Leon O. Jacobson
1962
Alberto F. Thompson
