Top Innovative Practice Awards

The Top Innovative Practice (TIP) awards highlight the nuclear industry’s most innovative techniques and ideas. They promote the sharing of fresh ideas and best practices, and consequently improve safety, work processes and the competitive position of the industry. The TIP awards are open to individuals and teams from all NEI member utilities that over the past three years have created and implemented transferable:

New practices
Enhanced processes
Improved technology

The awards are sponsored by Framatome, GE Vernova Hitachi Nuclear Energy, Westinghouse, and NEI.

To be considered for a TIP Award, the new process or practice can come from any area of utility operations including, but not limited to, improvements in plant operations, plant support, communications and outreach, or innovative business practices. The process or practice must have already been implemented and address innovation, safety, cost-savings impact, productivity and efficiency, transferability, communications, or vision and leadership.

2027 TIP Awards

Submissions for 2027 will be open later this year. Please check back for more information.

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2026 TIP Awards

The 2026 TIP awardees were honored at the 2026 Nuclear Energy Conference & Expo (NECX) in Dallas. Below is our full list of 2026 TIP awardees.

Constellation Energy

Measuring What Matters: Fleet Diagnostics for Generation-Risk Transients - TIP Workforce Award
Fuel Performance Monitoring with A.T.O.M.S. & NodeHawk (with Southern Company)

DTE Energy

Gantry & Cradle: Safe Heavy Load Innovation - GE Vernova Vendor Award

Duke Energy

Go/No-Go Gauge for Reactor Coolant Pump Seals

Entergy

ANO-2 First-of-a-Kind Containment Equipment Hatch Modification - Framatome Vendor Award
Decommissioning Trust Fund Use for MRC Disposal
Essential Chiller Replacement Using 10 CFR 50.69
Fleetwide Implementation of Risk Informed Surveillance Improvements

Evergy

Industry-Leading Transformation of Wireless Void Monitoring

Holtec

Building Support for America's First Nuclear Restart - TIP Communications Award

Southern Nuclear

AI Workforce Enablement Program - Westinghouse Vendor Award
Fuel Performance Monitoring with A.T.O.M.S. & NodeHawk (with Constellation Energy)
Gus the Gopher Tortoise - TIP Communications Award
SNC Advances Dose Analysis and Operational Strategies Using RG-1.183 Rev. 1

Tennessee Valley Authority