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2025 ANS Winter Conference & Expo
November 9–12, 2025
Washington, DC|Washington Hilton
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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.
Technical Session|Sponsored by MSTD
Tuesday, June 18, 2024|1:00–2:45PM PDT|Banyan A
Session Chair:
Michael Tonks (University of Florida)
Session Organizer:
Alternate Chair:
Jake R. Quincey (Oregon State)
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Assessment of Local Thermal Conductivity and Microstructure of Ultra-Low Burnup U-20 wt% Pu- 10 wt% Zr Alloy
1:00–1:20PM PDT
Cynthia Adkins (INL), Ethan Hisle (INL), Daniele Salvato (INL), Assel Aitkaliyeva (Univ. Florida), Tiankai Yao (INL)
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Comparison of Porosity Distribution in U-Zr and U-Pu-Zr
1:20–1:40PM PDT
Mary Sevart (Univ. Florida), Mitch Mika (Univ. Florida), Luca Capriotti (INL), Tiankai Yao (INL), Fei Xu (INL), Karen Wright (INL), Assel Aitkaliyeva (Univ. Florida)
Advances in Metallic Fuel Database Development and Data Qualification
1:40–2:00PM PDT
Kun Mo (ANL), Aaron Oaks (ANL), Yinbin Miao (ANL), Dandan Zhang (ANL), Jason L. Schulthess (INL), Douglas L. Porter (INL), Abdellatif Yacout (ANL)
Pulsed Neutron Characterization of Irradiated Fuels at LANSCE
2:00–2:20PM PDT
S.C. Vogel (LANL), James R. Angell (INL), T. Balke (Purdue Univ.), C.A. Bouman (Purdue Univ.), F. Cappia (INL), D.T. Carver (LANL), L. Capriotti (INL), A.E. Craft (INL), J. Harp (ORNL), P. Hoseman (Univ. California, Berkeley), E.J. Larson (LANL), A.M. Long (LANL), A.S. Losko (Technical Univ. Munich), K.J. McClellan (LANL), B.E. Wohlberg (LANL)
Integral Experimental Investigations of Radioisotope Evaporation in Molten Lead for the Mechanistic Source Term Evaluation of Lead-Cooled Fast Reactor
2:20–2:40PM PDT
Malak Bani-Melhem (Univ. New Mexico), Michael Trombetta (Univ. New Mexico), Shuprio Ghosh (Univ. New Mexico), Jared Justice (Univ. New Mexico), Sung J. Lee (Fauske & Assoc.), Michael Epstein (Fauske & Assoc.), Emre Tatli (Westinghouse Electric Co.), Paolo Ferroni (Westinghouse Electric Co.), Osman Anderoglu (Univ. New Mexico)
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