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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.
Executive Session|Panel
Monday, June 16, 2025|3:15–5:00PM CDT|Chicago Ballroom D
Session Chair:
Steve Nesbit (LMNT Consulting, President)
Recycling is one of the hottest nuclear topics among policy makers on Capitol Hill these days. Companies are pushing their plans to take used nuclear fuel and do something with it besides storage or burial. Touted advantages of recycling include unleashing vast amounts of potentially fissile material, simplifying nuclear waste management, and improving life-cycle economics for nuclear power. Skeptics point to high costs, generation of additional radioactive waste streams, and the potential for nuclear weapons proliferation. This panel discussion will address the realities of recycling today and the realistic potential for deploying recycling as part of the world’s nuclear future. We will hear from technology experts and entrepreneurs seeking to create a new fuel cycle approach on an industrial scale.
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