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  The transformation of the NRC: 50 years of commissioners
  The dust is beginning to settle following the whirlwind of changes at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission over the past year, and 2025 ultimately may be viewed as a transformative year, as well as the year the NRC celebrated its golden anniversary. The 12 months of that milestone year brought more change to the agency in its composition, its mandate, and its relationship to the executive branch than any comparable period in the preceding four decades.
  Now at 51 years and counting, the NRC is working with a full commission and issuing new rulemakings to both regulate and support the next round of nuclear deployments. With the turbulence of 2025 still fresh in our minds, Nuclear News decided it was a good time to revisit the professional backgrounds of all 42 NRC commissioners who have served over the agency’s 50-year history to see how the composition of the commission has evolved over time.
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Award Recipients

1998 2000

Arthur Holly Compton Award in Education (ETWDD)

Harold L. Dodds

Ray Goertz Award (RRSD)

Howard W. Harvey

Landis Young Member Engineering Achievement Award

Rizwan-uddin

Landis Public Communication and Education Award

Fredric C. Olds

Local Section Meritorious Award (ETWDD)

Small Local Sections

Colorado (Meritorious, Best Management and Programs, Best Public Information and Education, Best Section Management)
Virginia (Best Membership)

Meritorious Performance in Operations Award (OPD)

Louis F. Storz

Mark Mills Award (ETWDD)

Douglas E. Peplow

Mary Jane Oestmann Professional Women's Achievement Award

C. Ruth Kempf

Presidential Citations

Peter V. Domenici
John E. Price
Thomas H. Row

Reactor Technology Award (Atomic Energy Society of Japan)

Herbert Estrada

Henry DeWolf Smyth Nuclear Statesman Award (NEI)

Joseph Farley

Special Award

Bertrand Tavitian

Standards Service Award

Dimitrios Cokinos

Student Design Competition (ETWDD)

Graduate

University of Massachusetts
A. Jirapngmed, K. Randall, R. Tooker

University of Tennessee
B. Rsmussen, J. Getty

Undergraduate

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
R. Cohen, V. Curran, N. Kutsuzawa, A. Novak, K. Noyes

Purdue University
B. Horner, M. Riemer, S. Spillane, D. Wenzel

Technical Achievement Award (THD)

Victor H. Ransom

Edward Teller Award (FED)

Larry R. Foreman
Steven W. Haan
Dov Shvarts

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

George Apostolakis

Utility Achievement Award (OPD)

Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station
Arizona Public Services
V.C. Summer Nuclear Station
South Carolina Electric & Gas Company

Utility Leadership Award (OPD)

Michael S. Tuckman Duke Power Company

Alvin M. Weinberg Medal

Wolf Haefele

Eugene P. Wigner Reactor Physicist Award (RPD)

John J. Dorning

Walter H. Zinn Medal

Corbin A. McNeill, Jr.