Fuel Cycle and Waste Management Significant Contribution Award

The Fuel Cycle and Waste Management Significant Contribution Award recognizes individuals or teams for a successful accomplishment that significantly advanced scientific, engineering, societal, or regulatory aspects of the nuclear fuel cycle and/or nuclear waste management. It may be awarded to an individual or a team for success on a single project, activity, contribution, or sustained initiative. Nominees must be members of the American Nuclear Society at the time of nomination. The award consists of a plaque presented at the ANS Annual Conference.

Plaque presented at the ANS Annual Conference.

Nominees must be American Nuclear Society (ANS) members at the time of nomination; it is normally presented to a member of the FCWMD but any ANS member is eligible. The award is not given posthumously.

Nominations require a completed nomination form plus a nominator's letter of recommendation, a ~1,000-word narrative summary, list of publications, brief chronological resume, and up to five letters of support. Nominations are evaluated by the FCWMD Honors and Awards Committee and decided by the FCWMD executive committee.