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      Wright officially sworn in for third term at the NRC

      The Nuclear Regulatory Commission recently announced that David Wright, after being nominated by President Trump and confirmed by the Senate, was ceremonially sworn in as NRC chair on September 8.

      This swearing in comes more than a month after Wright began his third term on the commission; he began leading as chair July 31. His term will conclude on June 30, 2030.

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Walker Lee Cisler Medal

Robert N. Hill

Arthur Holly Compton Award in Education (ETWDD)

John C. Lee

NCSD Distinguished Service Award (NCSD)

Cecil Parks

MCD Distinguished Service Award (MCD)

Ray Gamino

Milton Levenson Distinguished Service Award

Remy DeVoe
Justin Knowles, Sekazi Mtingwa

Dwight D. Eisenhower Medal

George Shultz
Sidney Drell

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J. Wesley Hines
Han Gyu Joo
Yutai Katoh
Mark Peters
Shripad Revankar
Fausto Franceschini
Andrew Kadak
Martin Plys

Samuel Glasstone Award (ETWDD)

University of Tennessee-Knoxville (Best Section)
University of Wisconsin-Madison (Honorable Mention)
University of Florida (Honorable Mention)

Landis Young Member Engineering Achievement Award

Tomasz Kozlowski

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Margaret Harding

W. Bennett Lewis Award (DESD)

Jorge Spitalnik

FCWMD Lifetime Achievement Award (FCWMD)

Emory Collins

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Carlsbad Local Section (Best Membership, Best Meetings and Programs, and Best Section Overall)
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Idaho Local Section (Best Section Overall)
Washington, D.C. Local Section (Best Membership)
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Robert L. Long Training Excellence Award (ETWDD)

Hash Hashemian and training team at Analysis and Measurement Services Corporation
Jane LeClair

Don Miller Award (HFICD)

Gary Lynn Johnson
John M. O’Hara

Mark Mills Award (ETWDD)

Boopathy Kombaiah

Mishima Award

Arthur T. Motta

Nuclear Historic Landmark Award

UIUC TRIGA Mark II Nuclear Reactor (Advanced Teaching Research Isotope General Atomic)

Mary Jane Oestmann Professional Women's Achievement Award

Clair Sullivan

Gerald C. Pomraning Memorial Award (MCD)

Anil Kant Prinja

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Adolf Garcia
Mimi Limbach
Peter Lyons
Raymond Klann
Kai Vetter
Jack Brenizer
Kathryn McCarthy
Sherry Bernhoft
Richard Reister
Jason Remer

Radiation Science and Technology Award (IRD)

William Dunn

Rockwell Lifetime Achievement Award (RPSD)

Bernadette Kirk

Seaborg Medal

Lance Snead

FCWMD Significant Contribution Award (FCWMD)

John Kessler

Henry DeWolf Smyth Nuclear Statesman Award (NEI)

George Apostolakis

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Richard K. Lester

Standards Service Award

Jerry E. Hicks
Donald J. Wakefield

Student Design Competition (ETWDD)

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The Ohio State University: Neutron Activated Fluoride Salt Test Loop at The Ohio State University
Max Chaiken, Andrew Clark, Brian Cohn, James Cutright, Michael Kurth, Richard Shawger
Advisor: Prof. L. Raymond Cao

University of Michigan: Zero Knowledge Active Interrogation of Nuclear Warheads- Crystal Green
Brianne Heisinger, Kyle Kondrat, Matthew Krupcale, Jennifer Nguyen
Advisor: Dr. Sara Pozzi

Undergraduate

University of Wisconsin-Madison: Sodium-Cooled Integral Supercritical Carbon-dioxide Reactor (SCISCOR)
Kazi Ahmed, Ian Jentz, Richard Rolland
Advisor: Dr. John Murphy

Texas A&M University: Production of Tc-99m from Accelerator Generated Mo-99 Utilizing a Photon-Neutron Interaction With Mo-100 Targets
Matthew Schaper, Eden Marroquin, Talal Harahsheh, Miltiadis Kennas, Yousif Almaazmi
Advisor: Dr. Gamal Akabani

NCSD Technical Excellence Award (NCSD)

Forrest Brown

Technical Achievement Award (THD)

Mohamed S. El-Genk

Edward Teller Award (FED)

Hiroshi Azechi
Jie Zhang

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

George Flanagan

Utility Achievement Award (OPD)

Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Plant

Utility Leadership Award (OPD)

Lee Rogers

Alvin M. Weinberg Medal

Peter Lyons

Eugene P. Wigner Reactor Physicist Award (RPD)

Kord S. Smith

Young Member Excellence Award

Nicolas Stauff

Walter H. Zinn Medal

Brian K. Hajek

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