The 2016 Distinguished Career Award will be presented to Mohamed Abdou (UCLA)

The 2016 Leadership Awards will be presented to Joe Kilkenny (General Atomics and LLNL) and to Steven Zinkle (U.Tennessee and ORNL).

2016 Excellence in Fusion Engineering Awards will be presented to Stefan Gerhardt (PPPL) and to Michael Van Zeeland (General Atomics).

FPA Distinguished Career Awards have been given annually since 1987 to recognize individuals who have made distinguished lifelong career contributions that have benefited fusion energy development. Abdou is recognized for "the leadership and scientific contributions you have provided over many decades on the important issues associated with nuclear technologies for future fusion power plants and especially for the breadth of your many scientific contributions in such areas as neutronics, tritium behavior, and fusion fuel cycles and for the leadership you have provided to the world effort on the design of tritium breeding blankets and to numerous fusion power plant studies."

FPA Leadership Awards have been given annually since 1980 to recognize persons who have shown outstanding leadership qualities in accelerating the development of fusion as a commercial power source.

Kilkenny is cited for "the leadership you have provided for inertial confinement fusion for nearly four decades, including your pioneering work on hydrodynamic instabilities, opacity, thermal and suprathermal electron transport, and advanced diagnostics at major laser facilities" and noting especially "the leadership you have been providing more recently of the National Diagnostics Program, whose goal is to develop instruments that may revolutionize inertial confinement fusion and high energy density plasma research."

Zinkle is cited for "the leadership you have provided over many years on the important issues associated with materials for future fusion power plants" and noting especially "your many scientific contributions to the physical metallurgy of structural materials, the effects of neutron irradiation on materials, and your participation in, and leadership of, many fusion community workshops and program reviews."

FPA Excellence in Fusion Engineering Awards have been given annually since 1987, in memory of MIT Professor David J. Rose, to recognize persons in the relatively early part of their careers who have shown both technical accomplishment and potential to become exceptionally influential leaders in the fusion field.

Gerhardt is cited "for your many scientific contributions, including your recent work on plasma disruptions, which will provide major benefit to ITER and other major fusion experiments, and the leadership you provided, and are providing, to the successful completion and operation of the NSTX-U experiment at PPPL."

Van Zeeland is cited "for your many scientific contributions, including your work on energetic particle physics, toroidal Alfven eigenmodes, and the development of advanced diagnostics for a variety of fusion experiments" and "especially noting the leadership you are providing to the development of the ITER tangential interferometer/polarimeter."

A list of previous recipients is posted at http://fusionpower.org and click on Awards. The Awards recipients can be reached at:

abdou@fusion.ucla.edu
kilkenny1@llnl.gov
Zinklesj@ornl.gov
sgerhard@pppl.gov
Vanzeeland@fusion.gat.com