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Award Recipients

2020 2022

Arthur Holly Compton Award in Education (ETWDD)

Robert D. Busch
Nolan E. Hertel

E. Gail de Planque Medal

Sara A. Pozzi

Milton Levenson Distinguished Service Award

Robert F. Penn, Jr.

FCWMD Distinguished Service Award (FCWMD)

Jack Law

Dwight D. Eisenhower Medal

Ernest J. Moniz

Fellow of ANS

Mr. Bradley J. Adams
Mr. Jeffrey L. Bradfute, PE, MBA
Dr. William E. Burchill
Dr. Alex R. Burkart, PE
Dr. Mark B. Chadwick
Prof. Igor Jovanovic
Dr. Stuart A. Maloy PhD, PE
Dr. Robert P. Martin, PE
Dr. Kathryn Ann McCarthy
Dr. Todd S. Palmer
Dr. Jean C. Ragusa
Dr. Monica C Regalbuto
Dr. Xiaodong Sun

Samuel Glasstone Award (ETWDD)

University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez (Best Section)
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (Second Place)
University of New Mexico (Third Place)
Oregon State University (Honorable Mention)

Ray Goertz Award (RRSD)

Mark W. Noakes

H.M. Hashemian Mid-Career Award (HFICD)

Sacit M. Cetiner

Landis Young Member Engineering Achievement Award

Nicholas R. Brown
Paul K. Romano

Landis Public Communication and Education Award

Michael W. McCracken
Joshua L. Vajda

Leadership Award

Steven A. Arndt
Harsh S. Desai

FCWMD Lifetime Achievement Award (FCWMD)

Terry Todd

Local Section Meritorious Award (ETWDD)

Northeastern Section (Best Recruiting Program)
Savannah River Section (Best Meetings and Programs)
Idaho Section (Best Public Information and Education)
Idaho Section (Best Local Section Management)
Idaho Section (Best Overall Meritorious Local Section)

Robert L. Long Training Excellence Award (ETWDD)

Lawrence E. Boing

Don Miller Award (HFICD)

Ronald L. Boring
Rizwan Uddin

Mark Mills Award (ETWDD)

Dylan Hoagland & Raffi A. Yessayan
Yan-Ru Lin

Mishima Award

Robin William Grimes

Nuclear Historic Landmark Award

USS Enterprise (CVN-65), Aircraft Carrier

Mary Jane Oestmann Professional Women's Achievement Award

Madeline A. Feltus
Raluca O. Scarlat

David Okrent Award for Nuclear Safety (NISD)

Matthew R. Denman
Katrina M. Groth

Presidential Citations

Christina A. Back
Carol L. Berrigan
Daniel L. Churchman
Michael L. Corradini
Paul T. Dickman
Daniel J. Doran
James (Vince) V. Gilbert
Deborah Ann Hill
Alyse S. Huffman
Mark T. Peters

Ted Quinn Early Career Award (HFICD)

Fan Zhang

Radiation Science and Technology Award (IRD)

Anna S. Erickson

Reactor Technology Award (Atomic Energy Society of Japan)

Mohamed S. El-Genk

Rockwell Lifetime Achievement Award (RPSD)

Lawrence H. Heilbronn

Darlene Schmidt Science News Award

Caroline Delbert

Seaborg Medal

John C. Browne

Bal-Raj Sehgal Memorial Award (THD)

Elia Merzari

Henry DeWolf Smyth Nuclear Statesman Award (NEI)

Kristine L. Svinicki

Social Responsibility in the Nuclear Community

Tennessee-85 students and the Secretary of Energy

Special Award

D. V. Rao

Standards Service Award

Stanley H. Levinson

Student Design Competition (ETWDD)

UNDERGRADUATE
Texas A&M University - A Modular Molten Salt Reactor for Desalination
Authors: Sebastian Tchakerian, Phillip Olivarez, Robert Kollman David Swindall, and David Nguyen
Advisors: Mauricio Eduardo Tano Retamales and Karen Vierow Kirkland

University of Florida - Micro-HTGR for Military Installations
Authors: Cindy Marie McCabe, Jonathan Simoes Arnaud, Cesar Arturo Pozas, Steven Lester, and Micah Troyer
Advisor: DuWayne Schubring

University of Tennessee - Knoxville - Production of Carbon-14 Radioisotope using an Aluminum Nitride Target in HFIR
Authors: Austin Welsh, Christopher Busch, Kayla Noelle Sims, and Madison Kathryn Tippet
Advisor: Jason Hayward

GRADUATE
Colorado School of Mines - Design of a Low Enrichment Uranium Nuclear Reactor to Power a Future Martian Colony
Authors: Jacob Tellez, Joffrey Dorville, Conner Glatt, and Jeffrey C. King
Advisor: Jeffrey C. King

Technical Achievement Award (THD)

Francesco D'Auria
Chul-Hwa Song

Edward Teller Award (FED)

Omar Hurricane
Ryosuke Kodama

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

Karl N. Fleming

Alvin M. Weinberg Medal

Kenneth L. Peddicord

Eugene P. Wigner Reactor Physicist Award (RPD)

Imre Pázsit

MCD Young Member's Research Achievement Award (MCD)

Steven P. Hamilton

Young Member Excellence Award

Harsh S. Desai

Young Members Advancement Award

Ben Holtzman

Walter H. Zinn Medal

Jose N. Reyes, Jr

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