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2022 2024

Arthur Holly Compton Award in Education (ETWDD)

Anna S. Erickson

E. Gail de Planque Medal

Debra A. Callahan
Anna S. Erickson

Distinguished Public Service Award

Mark O. Cojuangco (Philippines)

Early Career Reactor Physicist Award (RPD)

Rodolfo M. Ferrer
Carlo Fiorina

Dwight D. Eisenhower Medal

Hon. William Ostendorff

Fellow of ANS

Maria N. Avramova
Annalisa Manera
Abderrafi M. Ougouag
Curtis L. Smith
Paul P. Wilson

Sandra Dulla
Shannon Bragg-Sitton
Carl Rick Grantom
Andrew Klein
Elia Merzari
Steven Nesbit

Samuel Glasstone Award (ETWDD)

Missouri University of Science and Technology (Best Section)
University of Puerto Rico in Mayagüez (Second Place)
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (Third Place)

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

Pradeep Ramuhalli

Landis Young Member Engineering Achievement Award

Anna S. Erickson
Koroush Shirvan
Elizabeth S Sooby

Landis Public Communication and Education Award

Bobbi Riedel

Don Miller Award (HFICD)

David Desaulniers

Mark Mills Award (ETWDD)

Victor Coppo Leite

Mishima Award

David Andersson

Mary Jane Oestmann Professional Women's Achievement Award

Leigh Winfrey

David Okrent Award for Nuclear Safety (NISD)

Nicholas R. Brown
Mihai A. Diaconeasa

Gerald C. Pomraning Memorial Award (MCD)

Alireza Haghighat
William R. Martin

Presidential Citations

Thomas A. Fanning
H.E. Mohamed Al Hammadi
Rebecca L. Steinman
W.A. “Art” Wharton, III
Steven P. Nesbit

Richard A. Meserve
Amir Afzali
Kairos Power LLC
Jeffrey S. Merrifield
Peter N. Swift
Maria G. Korsnick

Ted Quinn Early Career Award (HFICD)

Padhraic Mulligan

Radiation Science and Technology Award (IRD)

Dr. Lei Cao

Untermyer & Cisler Reactor Technology Medal (AESJ)

Andrew Whittaker

Darlene Schmidt Science News Award

Catherine (Cat) Clifford

Seaborg Medal

Luiz C. Leal

Bal-Raj Sehgal Memorial Award (THD)

Annalisa Manera

FCWMD Significant Contribution Award (FCWMD)

Joshua Vajda

Henry DeWolf Smyth Nuclear Statesman Award (NEI)

Mark T. Peters

Social Responsibility in the Nuclear Community

J'Tia Hart

Special Award

Donald E. Burkhart, Jr. (WY)
Marcio Paes-Barreto

Standards Service Award

Jean-Francois Lucchini

Student Design Competition (ETWDD)

UNDERGRADUATE
University Tennessee, Knoxville - Subcritical Test Assembly - Senior Design Project
Authors: Authors:
Daniel G. Racz, Gabriel F. Lentchner, Nicholas J. Branam, Sinan Zhang, and Sophia C. Hitson

North Carolina State University - Event Sequence Analysis to Support a Full Scope Dynamic Probabilistic Risk Assessment
Framework for the PULSTAR Research Reactor
Authors: Maddison M. Barber, May Wells, Alex Chaisson, and Mihai A. Diaconeasa

Georgia Institute of Technology - Cask Design and Offline Processing of Fuel Salt via Fluorination and Impurity Absorption for MSR Nuclear Waste
Authors: Gracie Eccleston, Jana Shade, Zach Welchel, and Caryanne Wilson

University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign - Large-Area Plasma-Liquid Reactors for Water Purification in Space
Authors: Sean M. Peyres, Jasmine Dinari, and Matt Koska

GRADUATE
Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Design Optimization of an Organic-Cooled Light-Water-Moderated Micro-Reactor for Electricity and Hydrogen Generation
Authors: Assil Halimi, Gyutae Park, Isabel Naranjo D. Candido, and Loukas Carayannopoulos

Technical Achievement Award (THD)

Seungjin Kim

Edward Teller Award (FED)

Otto Landen
Peter Norreys

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

Ian Wall

Young Member Excellence Award

Patrick J. Snouffer

Young Members Advancement Award

Lane B. Carasik

Walter H. Zinn Medal

Yasir Arafat

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