American Nuclear Society honors six new Fellows
The prestigious ANS Fellow designation acknowledges the extraordinary leadership of nuclear professionals in diverse disciplines relating to research, invention, engineering, safety, technical leadership, and teaching.
The most recently named ANS Fellows are:
Phillip J. Finck for outstanding leadership in the successful development and experimental validation of neutronics codes and nuclear data libraries for application to fast reactors, fuel cycle, thermal reactors, MOX fuels, and criticality safety.
Otto K. Harling for outstanding contributions to the conception, design and construction of an improved neutron inelastic scattering spectrometer, which greatly expanded the energy and momentum range of neutron inelastic scattering from water, heavy water, zirconium-hydride and superfluid liquid helium. He directed the successful design and construction of an advanced epithermal neutron irradiation facility for neutron capture therapy.
David J. Hill for his technical leadership in the areas of international reactor safety, fast reactor analysis and design, and nuclear fuel cycle technologies, for his leadership in the successful completion of a Level 1 PRA for the Experimental Breeder Reactor II (EBR-II), and his technical leadership of the International Nuclear Safety Center, involving several countries of the former Soviet Union, and his participation in and contributions to the "Six Laboratory" initiative to define a long-term vision for nuclear energy research.
Edward H. Klevans for his academic leadership in nuclear engineering education as reflected in high quality undergraduate and graduate programs he helped develop and lead at the Pennsylvania State University, through his success in promoting research, graduate distance education and public education programs, and for his efforts to seek federal research funding for nuclear engineering programs.
David Ruzic for outstanding leadership contributions to research on plasma wall interactions. He performed pioneering experiments coupled with molecular dynamic computer simulations on possible use of flowing molten lithium as a first-wall material, leading to extensive research on the use of carbon in plasma-facing components in a fusion reactor and a greater understanding for the development for future high-power fusion reactors.
J. Kenneth Shultis for outstanding teaching and research contributions to radiation shielding and protection. He has co-authored four widely used nuclear engineering texts, authored over 100 papers and computer codes on many radiation related subjects, particularly on various simplified techniques for neutron and gamma-ray skyshine and other radiation analysis.
