The Pinkerton Prize recognises authors and co-authors of articles of significant technical or scientific merit published in the Nuclear Institute’s bi-monthly Nuclear Future journal.
The prize is awarded in memory of one of the key founder organisations of The Nuclear Institute – the Institute of Nuclear Engineers. Founded in 1959, the Institute of Nuclear Engineers has played a pivotal part in developing professionalism within the nuclear industry.
Previous Winners
- 2021 – Paul Nevitt, Meridith Sherock, Emma Vernon – ‘Fuelling Net Zero’
- 2020 – Clara Lloyd, Robbie Lyons, Tony Roulstone: ‘Expanding Nuclear’s Contribution to Climate Change with SMRs’
- 2019 – Robin Taylor and Gemma Mathers:'Innovation in the aqueous recycling of spent nuclear fuels’
- 2018 – Mike Davies – ‘The qualification of candidate graphites for future hugh temperature gas-cooled reactors’
- 2017: Pinkerton Prize - Harry Edwards, Andrew Jackson, Adam Locke: ‘Modular Civils for Modular Reactors’
- 2016 - Reuben Holmes, Massimiliano Materazzi, and Brandon Gallagher: ‘Magnox Reprocessing TDN Reactors: Utilising 3D Printing to Re-Design and Test Fluidising Air Nozzles’
- 2015 –Richard Crawford - ‘Lessons from the Graphite Core Project’
- 2014: Michelle Nuttall: ‘Criticality aspects of the transport of legacy spent fuels’
- 2013: Jim Thomson: ‘Fukushima and its consequences’
The NI Young Generation Network awards two prizes annually, presented at the YGN Annual Dinner and the NI Annual Dinner respectively.