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Empowering the next generation: ANS’s newest book focuses on careers in nuclear energy
A new career guide for the nuclear energy industry is now available: The Nuclear Empowered Workforce by Earnestine Johnson. Drawing on more than 30 years of experience across 16 nuclear facilities, Johnson offers a practical, insightful look into some of the many career paths available in commercial nuclear power. To mark the release, Johnson sat down with Nuclear News for a wide-ranging conversation about her career, her motivation for writing the book, and her advice for the next generation of nuclear professionals.
When Johnson began her career at engineering services company Stone & Webster, she entered a field still reeling from the effects of the Three Mile Island incident in 1979, nearly 15 years earlier. Her hiring cohort was the first group of new engineering graduates the company had brought on since TMI, a reflection of the industry-wide pause in nuclear construction. Her first long-term assignment—at the Millstone site in Waterford, Conn., helping resolve design issues stemming from TMI—marked the beginning of a long and varied career that spanned positions across the country.
R. Fischer, C. J. Fuchs, B. Kurzan, W. Suttrop, E. Wolfrum, ASDEX Upgrade Team
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 58 | Number 2 | October 2010 | Pages 675-684
Selected Paper from the Sixth Fusion Data Validation Workshop 2010 (Part 1) | doi.org/10.13182/FST10-110
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A major challenge in nuclear fusion research is the coherent combination of measurements from heterogeneous diagnostics. Different measurement techniques for measuring the same subset of physical parameters provide complementary and redundant data for, e.g., improving the reliability of physical parameters, increasing the spatial and temporal resolution of profiles, and resolving data inconsistencies.The concept of integrated data analysis within the framework of Bayesian probability theory was applied to the combined analysis of lithium beam emission spectroscopy (LIB), deuterium cyanide laser interferometry, electron cyclotron emission (ECE), and Thomson scattering spectroscopy. The four heterogeneous diagnostics enable the simultaneous estimation of electron density and temperature profiles with high spatial and temporal resolution. The coherent analysis of the profile diagnostics allows one to consider diagnostic interdependencies correlating density and temperature profiles, e.g., ECE shine-through, and diagnostics alignment. The benefits of a combined analysis of diagnostics will be shown in a modular way by successively increasing the set of diagnostics starting with the LIB diagnostics.
