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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.
A. Berdondini, M. Bettuzzi, R. Brancaccio, F. Casali, N. Lanconelli, M. P. Morigi
Nuclear Technology | Volume 168 | Number 1 | October 2009 | Pages 231-234
Phantoms | Special Issue on the 11th International Conference on Radiation Shielding and the 15th Topical Meeting of the Radiation Protection and Shielding Division (Part 1) / Radioisotopes | doi.org/10.13182/NT09-A9131
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In recent years there has been a growing demand from museums for computed tomography (CT) diagnostic measurements to be performed on famous artworks (sculptures and paintings) inside the museum itself in order to assess whether are they in good condition or need a restoration procedure. The problem of radioprotection becomes critical when the energy used in CT is high, as typically occurs in the case of CT measurements on sculptures, where linacs are used to produce the high-energy X-rays necessary to penetrate marble or metal. In this study we used Monte Carlo simulations in order to evaluate dose distribution inside a museum where a high-energy CT system is used for diagnostic measurements on a sculpture.