Nuclear industry honors Todreas with Smyth Statesman Award
Dr. Todreas' leadership has guided the advancement of nuclear reactor programs and designs. KEPCO Professor of Nuclear Engineering and Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Todreas has explored advanced nuclear reactors and fuel cycle concepts, as well as thermal and hydraulic analysis of safety systems in operating nuclear reactors and waste management facilities.
His emphasis on safe and economic operation of current reactors has strengthened international consensus on goals for the future of the industry. He is a fellow of both the American Nuclear Society and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
The American Nuclear Society and the Nuclear Energy Institute jointly established the Henry DeWolf Smyth Nuclear Statesman Award in 1972. The award commemorates the work of Henry DeWolf Smyth, the Princeton University physicist who played an important role in the development of atomic energy beginning in the 1940s. Smyth served on the Atomic Energy Commission from 1949-54 and was appointed by President Kennedy as the U.S. representative to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) with the rank of ambassador. Smyth also advocated an international partnership to develop peaceful uses of nuclear energy.
