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Arthur Holly Compton Award in Education (ETWDD)

George E. Apostolakis

NCSD Distinguished Service Award (NCSD)

Hans Toffer

Distinguished Public Service Award

John T. Conway

Samuel Glasstone Award (ETWDD)

University of Michigan (Best Section)
University of Wisconsin-Madison (Honorable Mention)
Ohio State University (Honorable Mention)

Landis Public Communication and Education Award

Garry A. Harris

Landis Young Member Engineering Achievement Award

Mark H. Anderson

George C. Laurence Pioneering Award (NISD)

Herbert J. C. Kouts

Local Section Meritorious Award (ETWDD)

Small Local Sections

Oak Ridge/Knoxville (Best Overall)

Large Local Sections

Idaho (Best Overall)

Meritorious Performance in Operations Award (OPD)

B. Ralph Sylvia (posthumously)

Mark Mills Award (ETWDD)

Quan Zhou

Mishima Award

Everett E. Bloom

Nuclear Historic Landmark Award

Belgian Reactor 1 (BR-1)
Fast Flux Test Facility (FFTF)

Gerald C. Pomraning Memorial Award (MCD)

Barry D. Ganapol

Presidential Citations

Melvin R. Buckner
International Atomic Energy Agency & Director General Mohamed ElBaradei
Raymond H. Gabaldon
Andrew C. Klein
John & Muriel Landis
James F. Mallay
Harold F. McFarlane
Roger S. Reynolds
Stephen H. Shepherd
Kyle H. Turner

Reactor Technology Award (Atomic Energy Society of Japan)

Regis A. Matzie

Seaborg Medal

Robert C. Block

Henry DeWolf Smyth Nuclear Statesman Award (NEI)

Neil E. Todreas

Special Award

David I. Poston
Terry Kammash

Standards Service Award

James F. Mallay

Student Design Competition (ETWDD)

Graduate

Penn State University
K. Barber, R. Ferrer, M. McCloskey

University of Tennessee
R. Woolley, Z. Faiztompkins, R. Kopenec, G. Sweder

Undergraduate

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
S. Ramsey, D. Kokusek, C. Tomchik, Y. Wu

University of Tennessee
M. Francis, . Catalanotto, J. Cole, G. Balagtas, N. Devaser, J. Pope

Technical Achievement Award (THD)

Vijay K. Dhir
William T. Sha

NCSD Technical Excellence Award (NCSD)

Thomas P. McLaughlin
Shean P. Monahan
Norman L. Pruvost
Vladimir V. Frolov
Boris G. Ryazanov
Victor I. Sviridov

Edward Teller Award (FED)

Dr. Joseph D. Kilkenny
Dr. Max Tabak

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

Robert J. Budnitz

Samuel Untermyer II Award

Frank Bevilacqua

Utility Achievement Award (OPD)

Cooper Nuclear Station
NPPD
Braidwood Station
Exelon Generating Company, LLC

Utility Leadership Award (OPD)

Michael Wallace Constellation Generation Group

Eugene P. Wigner Reactor Physicist Award (RPD)

Massimo Salvatores

Walter H. Zinn Medal

Margaret (Marge) W. Asprey

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