ANS honors five members as Fellows
ANS bestows the Fellow designation to recognize outstanding accomplishment by members in one or more of the disciplines or fields of nuclear science and engineering. The five disciplines are: Notable original research or invention in the nuclear field; Scientific or technical leadership in a nuclear enterprise of substantial scope; Outstanding leadership as a teacher in the nuclear field; Outstanding leadership in design, engineering and operating efforts in the nuclear field; and Outstanding efforts in the areas of nuclear health, safety and regulation.
The newest ANS Fellows are:
- Dr. Marvin L. Adams, associate professor of nuclear engineering at Texas A&M University. Adams, of College Station, Texas, was recognized for the development and analysis of advanced spatial discretization methods, as well as the development and analysis of rapidly convergent interactive methods for transport challenges. He also was recognized for his excellence in teaching and advising undergraduate and graduate nuclear engineering students.
- Steven A. Arndt, team leader for instrumentation and control with the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Arndt, a resident of Damascus, Md., was recognized for extraordinary leadership in promoting the safe operation of nuclear reactors through advances in the areas of nuclear instrumentation and control, software quality assurance, reliability engineering and nuclear power plant simulators.
- Dr. Nam Zin Cho, professor of nuclear engineering at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology. Cho, of Taejon, Korea, was recognized for his achievements in developing reactor physics and transport theory methods used worldwide in laboratories and industry, and for inspiring a new generation of nuclear engineers in academia, research institutes and industry in Korea.
- Calvin M. Hopper, senior distinguished research and development engineer with the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Hopper, of Clinton, Tenn., was recognized for his outstanding effort in the field of nuclear criticality safety, and for his leadership roles in developing national and international consensus standards, in developing and directing technology support programs and preparing guidance on the elements of a criticality safety program.
- Dr. George J. Rotariu, a consultant in nuclear energy and retired senior scientist for the Division of Nuclear Safety in the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Environment, Health and Safety. Rotariu, a resident of Bethesda, Md., was recognized for his design and management overview of construction of the first large "cobalt-60" irradiator in the United States, and his management roles for the AEC programs on process radiation and isotopic instrumentation development.
