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NN Asks: What did you learn from ANS’s Nuclear 101?
Mike Harkin
When ANS first announced its new Nuclear 101 certificate course, I was excited. This felt like a course tailor-made for me, a transplant into the commercial nuclear world. I enrolled for the inaugural session held in November 2024, knowing it was going to be hard (this is nuclear power, of course)—but I had been working on ramping up my knowledge base for the past year, through both my employer and at a local college.
The course was a fast-and-furious roller-coaster ride through all the key components of the nuclear power industry, in one highly challenging week. In fact, the challenges the students experienced caught even the instructors by surprise. Thankfully, the shared intellectual stretch we students all felt helped us band together to push through to the end.
We were all impressed with the quality of the instructors, who are some of the top experts in the field. We appreciated not only their knowledge base but their support whenever someone struggled to understand a concept.
Dr. E. Linn Draper Jr. joined the American Nuclear Society in 1970. He was elected the 31st president of the Society in 1985. He has been involved since his initial joining with the Education, Training & Workforce Development and Fuel Cycle & Waste Management Divisions.
He began his career in the nuclear field at the University of Texas at Austin where he was director of the Nuclear Reactor Laboratory and the Nuclear Engineering program. He worked there for 10 years. He left them to join Gulf States, where he held a variety of technical and administrative positions including chairman, president and CEO. After 13 years of service, he left to join American Electric Power (AEP) Company, where he served 12 years also as their president, chairman and CEO.
Dr. Draper has been a member of the Board of Directors of eleven New York Stock Exchange listed companies including current service at Alliance Data Systems and NorthWestern Energy, where he is non-executive Chairman of the Board.
Draper is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the Academy of Medicine, Engineering and Science of Texas, where he served as the president. He is a registered professional engineer in the State of Texas.
Draper is the author of a number of technical publications and the editor of two books.
During his professional career, he served in executive positions for the following: Edison Electric Institute (EEI), Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), Institute of Nuclear Power Operations (INPO), Nuclear Energy Institute (NEI), Nuclear Utility Management and Resources Council (NUMARC), the Association of Electric Companies of Texas (AECT), the National Coal Council (NCC), the Ohio Business Round table (OBRT), and the Simon Kenton Council of the Boy Scouts of America.
He is a member of the Cornell University Council, the University of Texas Engineering Advisory Board, and the University of Texas Energy Institute. He served two terms as a member of the Board of Governors for the Argonne National Laboratory. He was a member of the Board of Governors for the Nature Conservancy and Resources for the Future.
He holds two Bachelor’s degrees from Rice University (1964) and a Doctorate from Cornell University (1970).
Dr. Draper is an Eagle Scout and a Distinguished Eagle Scout, an award presented to Eagle Scouts who after 25 years have distinguished themselves in their life work and have shared their talents with their communities on a voluntary basis.
Read Nuclear News from July 1985 for more on Linn.
