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Award Recipients

1996 1998

Walker Lee Cisler Medal

Yoon I. Chang

Arthur Holly Compton Award in Education (ETWDD)

Gerald C. Pomraning

Milton Levenson Distinguished Service Award

William F. Vogelsang

Samuel Glasstone Award (ETWDD)

Pennsylvania State University (First Place)
University of Wisconsin-Madison (Second Place)
University of Missouri-Rolla Third Place

Ray Goertz Award (RRSD)

Joseph S. Byrd

Landis Young Member Engineering Achievement Award

Jacquelyn C. Yanch

Leadership Award

Charles C. Thomas, Jr.

Local Section Meritorious Award (ETWDD)

Small Local Sections

Oak Ridge/Knoxville (Best Overall)
Washington DC (Best Membership, Best Meetings and Programs)
Chicago (Best Public Information)
Long Island (Best Section Management)

Meritorious Performance in Operations Award (OPD)

Howard Maxwell
The Arizona Public Service Predictive Maintenance Team

Mark Mills Award (ETWDD)

Lianyan Liu

Mishima Award

James S. Tulenko

Nuclear Historic Landmark Award

Gaerttner LINAC Laboratory Approved September
Babcock & Wilcox Critical Experiment Lab Approved September
Isomedix Inc. Morton Grove Irradiator Approved September
Phenix Approved September

Presidential Citations

Philip Batt
John Graham
Brian K. Hajek
Andrew C. Kadak
James G. Toscas

Reactor Technology Award (Atomic Energy Society of Japan)

David M. Lucoff

Rockwell Lifetime Achievement Award (RPSD)

Wilbur L. Bunch

Henry DeWolf Smyth Nuclear Statesman Award (NEI)

John W. Simpson

Special Award

Bruno Sicard
Herve Bernard
Jean-Paul Chaudat and Jacques Bourges

Standards Service Award

David R. Smith

Student Design Competition (ETWDD)

Graduate

Georgia Institute of Technology
J.A. Favorite, M.J. Belanger, R.D. Granbert, S.L. Grimm, F.A. Kelly, S. Klima, J.S. Lahr, E.D. McKamey, M.S. McKinley, G.M. Nicholson, D.C. Norris, R. Rubilar, Z.L. Sasnett, G.J. Schott, M.J. Stinson, M.R. Sutton, A.H. Thatcher, R.J. Turmel and K.G. Veinot

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
L. Garcia-Delgado, A. Marques, F.M. Nielson, J. Rangel

Undergraduate

Purdue University
Thomas Fieno, David G. Penn, Brian Stewart, Chris Van Wert

University of Tennessee
Susan Turner, David Pointer, Bobby Page, Dax Jolly and Dan Evans

Technical Achievement Award (THD)

George Yadigaroglu

Edward Teller Award (FED)

Michael H. Key
Juergen Meyer-ter-Vehn
Guillermo Velarde
George Zimmerman

Theos J. ("Tommy") Thompson Award For Reactor Safety (NISD)

Bertram Wolfe

Utility Achievement Award (OPD)

Comanche Peak
TXU Electric & Gas Company
Diablo Canyon
Pacific Gas & Electric Company

Utility Leadership Award (OPD)

Bill Cavanaugh Carolina Power & Light

Walter H. Zinn Medal

Howard Bruschi

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