Jeremy Busby, director of the Reactor and Nuclear Systems Division at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, has been elected fellow of the American Nuclear Society for his contributions to developing materials for nuclear energy systems.
Busby received the honor during the ANS Winter Meeting and Nuclear Technology Expo in Washington, D.C., on Nov. 18. The ANS cited Busby’s work to better understand materials performance and improve materials for numerous nuclear energy systems, including space reactors, fusion reactors, advanced fast reactors and light water reactors.
Busby has more than two decades of experience in research and development in nuclear engineering. He has served in various leadership positions during that time, such as heading the Materials Aging and Degradation Pathway for DOE’s Office of Nuclear Energy Light Water Reactor Sustainability Program.
The ANS previously presented Busby with the Landis Young Member Achievement award in 2006, and in 2007 he received the ORNL Early Career Award for Engineering Accomplishment for his research leadership around high-performance cast stainless steels, a critical part of the ITER project.
Busby received the Presidential Early Career Award for Science and Engineering in 2010 for the high-performance cast stainless steels effort and for mentoring students as an adjunct assistant professor at the University of Michigan. In 2011, he received a Secretary of Energy Achievement Award for contributions to DOE’s response to the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant accident in Japan.
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