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Secretary’s Honor Awards recognize ORNL employees

Posted at 4:55 pm January 31, 2022
By Oak Ridge Today Staff Leave a Comment

Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm speaks at the Secretary’s Honor Awards Ceremony, which was presented virtually. (Photo credit: Jaimee Janiga/ORNL, U.S. Department of Energy)

Oak Ridge National Laboratory employees received Department of Energy Secretary’s Honor Awards from Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm in January for their work on projects related to computer tools and classified information, a new alloy, and the production of plutonium-238 and special components for the Mars Perseverance rover.

The annual awards recognized 21 teams and three individuals for service and contributions to DOE’s mission and to the benefit of the nation, a press release said. More than 50 current employees and recent retirees from ORNL received awards.

“The Department of Energy’s core mission—promoting scientific discovery, maintaining the nuclear deterrent, and remediating environmental harms—have never been more important,” Granholm said. “Our role in tackling the climate emergency and ensuring America’s continued security and prosperity is absolutely critical, and it could not be done without the dedicated and diverse team of world-class scientists, engineers, policy experts, and mission support personnel employed at our headquarters, fields sites, and laboratories across the country.”

The teams and ORNL employees named in achievement awards include:

Advanced Computer Tools to Identify Classified Information Program Team. This team creates tools to improve the classification decision-making process. The award citation states, “The ACTICI team, composed of a diverse collection of subject matter experts from across the DOE complex, is solving this most difficult problem through collaboration and teamwork allowing great ideas to be shared among the labs and across the government.” ORNL employees named in the award include Dustin Reinert, Chelsey Dunivan Stahl, Christopher Stahl, and Steven Young.

Alloy 617 American Society of Mechanical Engineers Code Qualification Team. The team facilitated the addition of a new alloy to the American Society of Mechanical Engineers Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code, the first alloy to be added in 20 years. The nickel, chromium, cobalt, and molybdenum alloy enables “the use of high-temperature reactors to meet the United States’ energy security and climate change goals and paves the way for additional advanced alloys to be qualified in the future,” according to the citation. ORNL employee Yanli Wang was named in the award.

Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover Radioisotope Power Systems Team. The award recognizes ORNL for both plutonium-238 production efforts and special component manufacturing, also lauding Idaho National Laboratory, Los Alamos National Laboratory, and other supporting national labs and industry partners. Pu-238, in pellet form, produces heat converted to electricity by the rover’s multi-mission radioisotope thermoelectric generator, which moves the rover and powers the instruments used on Mars’ surface. ORNL employees named in the award include Porter Bailey (retired), Glynn Baird, Chris Bryan, Ashli Clark, Greg Cox, Jeff Delashmitt, Dave DePaoli, Alan Frederick, Brian Friske, Nidia Gallego, Easo George, Joshua Greene, Kevin Hanson, Bryson Hutchison, Chris Jensen, Doug Kyle, Tom Lecomte, Michael McAlister, Mike Medley, Jim Miller, Roger Miller, Bob Morris, Govindarajan Muralidharan, Tom Muth, Allison Neal, Jessica Osborn, Dean Pierce, Jeff Pryor (retired), Kevin Redden, Ben Roach, Glenn Romanoski, Nick Sullivan, George Ulrich, Rex Veach, Ray Vedder, Eric Vidal, and Bob Wham. Read more about the award and see the full list of project contributors.

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Filed Under: Front Page News, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Science, Top Stories, U.S. Department of Energy Tagged With: ACTICI, Advanced Computer Tools to Identify Classified Information Program, Allison Neal, Alloy 617 American Society of Mechanical Engineers Code Qualification, Ben Roach, Bob Morris, Bob Wham, Bryson Hutchison, Chelsey Dunivan Stahl, Chris Jensen, Christopher Stahl, Dean Pierce, DOE, Doug Kyle, Dustin Reinert, Easo George, Eric Vidal, George Ulrich, Glenn Romanoski, Govindarajan Muralidharan, Idaho National Laboratory, Jeff Pryor, Jennifer Granholm, Jessica Osborn, Jim Miller, Joshua Greene, Kevin Hanson, Kevin Redden, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Mars, Michael McAlister, Mike Medley, Nick Sullivan, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, ORNL, Perseverance Rover, plutonium-238, Porter Bailey, Radioisotope Power Systems, Ray Vedder, Rex Veach, Roger Miller, Secretary's Honor Awards, Steven Young, Tom Lecomte, Tom Muth, U.S. Department of Energy, Yanli Wang

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