Kathryn McCarthy, INEEL manager of the Nuclear Engineering Design and Research Department in the Advanced Nuclear Energy Directorate, has been nominated to receive the 2000 American Nuclear Society Women's Achievement Award. The presentation will be made at the ANS awards luncheon Nov. 14 in Washington, D.C.

The award recognizes outstanding personal dedication and technical achievement by a woman for work she has performed in the fields of nuclear science, nuclear engineering, research and education.

McCarthy came to the Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory in 1991. With a Ph.D. in nuclear engineering, she has worked in the INEEL Fusion Safety Program focusing on examining the behavior of the materials in the plasma facing components of proposed fusion reactors. She also leads a number of important experimental projects that have contributed to an understanding of the consequences of fusion reactor accidents. She became a department director in 1998.

She has worked at the Kurchatov Institute in Moscow, the Efremov Institute in Leningrad and the Latvian Academy of Sciences in Riga, and has participated in numerous national and international fusion energy conferences and symposiums and authored or co-authored more than three-dozen journal articles.

Contact: John Walsh (208) 526-8646

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