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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.
J. Giorla, F. Poggi, D. Galmiche, P. Seytor, R. Quach, C. Cherfils, P. Gauthier, S. Laffite, L. Masse
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 51 | Number 4 | May 2007 | Pages 514-518
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/FST07-A1436
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The first ignition experiments on the Laser Mégajoule facility will use an indirect drive scheme. Our A1040 point design target is a graded doped plastic capsule filled by permeation within a gold cylinder. The deuterium-tritium ice layer may be formed either by classical slow cooling at 1.5 K below triple point, or by rapid cooling at 2.3 K below triple point. To complete the specifications, we first studied the robustness to all technological defects with the current CEA capabilities for these two options of ice formation. The technological imperfections taken into account are regrouped into 1D errors, which keep the implosion spherical, and 3D errors, which induce a deformation of the shell. The 3D robustness is expressed in terms of deformation at peak velocity and compared to the deformation threshold obtained with 2D simulations. The 1D robustness is given by the probability of exceeding 50% of nominal yield. We have taken into account 22 1D parameters and the fusion energy is approximated by a neural network based on 2000 simulations. Although the studies are not finished yet, the first results show that the A1040 design with rapid cooling has sufficient margins with respect to technological defects.