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Arthur Holly Compton Award in Education (ETWDD)

Rizwan Uddin

E. Gail de Planque Medal

Bernadette L. Kirk

NCSD Distinguished Service Award (NCSD)

Brian Kidd

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Mark DeHart
Temitope Taiwo
Terry Todd
Dr. Jess C. Gehin
Dr. Robert N. Hill
Dr. Alan S. Icenhour
Dr. Jose N. Reyes, Jr.
Dr. Akio Yamamoto

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Frank M. Heckendorn, II

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Kurt A. Terrani

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Pablo Mulás

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Benard Boullis

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Larry R. Foulke
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Advanced Test Reactor

Don Miller Award (HFICD)

Arndt Lindner

Mark Mills Award (ETWDD)

Dr. Yinbin Miao

Mishima Award

Brian Wirth

Nuclear Historic Landmark Award

University of Missouri Research Reactor (MURR)
Advanced Test Reactor (ATR) Complex

Mary Jane Oestmann Professional Women's Achievement Award

Dr. Zahra Mohaghegh

Outstanding Achievement Award (FED)

Mohamed Sawan

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Darby S. Kimball
Stephen E. Kuczynski
Edward D. Kee
Nicholas Thompson
Daniel J. Curtis

Seaborg Medal

George H. Miley

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Robert Jubin

Henry DeWolf Smyth Nuclear Statesman Award (NEI)

Peter B. Lyons

Standards Service Award

Andrew O. Smetana

Student Design Competition (ETWDD)

Graduate

University of California Berkeley: Near-Term Deployment Viability of Liquid-Fuel Molten Salt Reactors
Sandra Bogetic, Andrew Greenop, Nils Haneklaus, Chris Poresky, Dan Shen
Advisor: Dr. Massimiliano Fratoni

Undergraduate

Purdue University: Helium-3 Production Via Lithium Activation In An Accelerator-Driven Reactor
P. Dressman, A. Jassem, T. Kyle, R. Nicholson, S. Sanders, D. Toneff
Advisor: Prof. Chan K. Choi

University of Wisconsin-Madison: Design Report for the Molten-Chloride High Temperature Reactor (M-CHTR)
Alex Gross, Andrew Maile, Jordan Rein, Advisor: Dr. John Murphy

Texas A&M University: VASIMR – Interfaced High Temperature GasCooled Fast Reactor for Advanced Space Applications (VARGAS)
Joe Kelsey, Andrés Morell-Pacheco, Tyler Hughes, and Nick Whitman
Advisor: Dr. Pavel Tsvetkov

Technical Achievement Award (THD)

Dr. Nam Truc Dinh

NCSD Technical Excellence Award (NCSD)

John Milhalczo

Utility Achievement Award (OPD)

Plant Hatch

Utility Leadership Award (OPD)

Randall K. Edington

Eugene P. Wigner Reactor Physicist Award (RPD)

Dr. Luiz Carlos Leal
Dr. Mark L. Williams

Young Member Excellence Award

Kathryn D. Huff

Walter H. Zinn Medal

Regis Matzie

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