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      The deadline arrives: Checking in on the Reactor Pilot Program

      On May 23, 2025, President Trump signed Executive Order 14301, “Reforming Nuclear Reactor Testing at the DOE,” which instructed the Department of Energy to create a Reactor Pilot Program (RPP)—a new system in which companies could pursue DOE authorization to build and test their first-of-a-kind nuclear technologies. EO 14301 set an ambitious goal for that program: three reactors achieving criticality by July 4, 2026.

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Award Recipients

2000 2002

Walker Lee Cisler Medal

Ersel A. Evans

Arthur Holly Compton Award in Education (ETWDD)

Jeffrey D. Lewins

NCSD Distinguished Service Award (NCSD)

Robert Busch

MCD Distinguished Service Award (MCD)

Elmer E. Lewis

Ray Goertz Award (RRSD)

Andy Lethco

Landis Young Member Engineering Achievement Award

Takashi Hibiki

George C. Laurence Pioneering Award (NISD)

Alan D. Swain

Local Section Meritorious Award (ETWDD)

Small Local Sections

Oak Ridge / Knoxville (Best Membership)
Savannah River (Best Meetings & Programs)
Colorado (Best Public Info and Education, Best Section Management, Best Overall)

Large Local Sections

Idaho (Best Overall)

Meritorious Performance in Operations Award (OPD)

Peter Martin, Wolf Creek Nuclear Station

Mark Mills Award (ETWDD)

Jacopo Buongiorno

Mishima Award

James J. Laidler

Nuclear Historic Landmark Award

Intense Pulsed Neutron Source (Argonne National Laboratory)

Mary Jane Oestmann Professional Women's Achievement Award

Pat Jupiter

Presidential Citations

Donald R. Hoffman
John W. Landis

Radiation Science and Technology Award (IRD)

Richard G. Helmer

Reactor Technology Award (Atomic Energy Society of Japan)

Massimo Salvatores

Seaborg Medal

Weston M. Stacey

Henry DeWolf Smyth Nuclear Statesman Award (NEI)

Corbin McNeill

Special Award

Richard Rhodes

Standards Service Award

Michael J. Wright

Student Design Competition (ETWDD)

Graduate

University of Tennessee
Weley Williams, Ke Zhao, Baofu Lu, Andrew Szaflarski, Peter Kim

Undergraduate

Georgia Institute of Technology
G.P. Kessler, L.M. Kirby, A.N. Mauer, J.J. Noble, D.M. Stopp, D.S. Ulevich

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Ian J. Parrish, Paige Hopewell, Victoria Anderson, Mark Laughter, ishani Triveda

University of California-Berkeley
D. Wongsawaeng, D. Cash, I. Byers, B. Tran

Technical Achievement Award (THD)

Michael Corradini

NCSD Technical Excellence Award (NCSD)

Lester Petrie

Edward Teller Award (FED)

Dr. Mordecai Rosen
Stefano Atzeni

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

Bal Raj Sehgal

Utility Achievement Award (OPD)

McGuire Nuclear Station
Duke Power Company
Watts Bar Nuclear Plant
Tennessee Valley Authority

Utility Leadership Award (OPD)

Roy A. Anderson Nuclear Management Company

Alvin M. Weinberg Medal

Alvin Radkowsky

Eugene P. Wigner Reactor Physicist Award (RPD)

Daniel G. Cacuci

Walter H. Zinn Medal

William R. Stratton

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