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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.
General Chair:
Shaheen Dewji (Assistant Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology)
General Cochair:
Irina Popova (Nuclear Scientist, Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
Honorary Chairs:
Nolan Hertel (Georgia Tech)
Bernadette Kirk (ORNL Ret.)
Enrico Sartori (NEA, Ret.)
Program Chair:
Pedro Vaz (Principal Researcher, Instituto Superior Tecnico)
Program Cochairs:
Jeff Favorite (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
Thomas Miller (ORNL)
Rui Qiu (Tsinghua University)
Exhibits and Sponsorship Committee Members:
Shaheen Dewji (Georgia Tech)
Bernadette Kirk (ORNL, ret.)
Workshops Chair:
Joel Risner (ORNL)
Student Chairs:
Andrew Rosenstrom (Georgia Tech)
Kathryn Bales (UT-San Antonio)
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Stefano Agosteo (Politecnico Milano, Italy)
Miltos Alamaniotis (UT-San Antonio, USA)
Peter Angelo (Y-12, USA)
John Bess (INL, USA)
Jean-François Bottollier Depois (IRSN, France)
David Broggio (IRSN, France)
Zhi Chen (USTC, China)
Douglas Di Julio (ESS, Sweden)
Cheikh Diop (CEA Saclay, France)
Eric Dumonteil (IRSN, France)
Adolfo Esposito (LNF, Italy)
Michael Fensin (LANL, USA)
Michele Ferenci (Penn State, USA)
Alfredo Ferrari (CERN, Switzerland)
Brian Franke (Sandia, USA)
Maria Grazia Pia (INFN Genova, Italy)
Rob Hayes (NC State, USA)
Jason Haverkamp (KAPL, USA)
Ser Gi Hong (KHU, South Korea)
Tatiana Ivanova (OCED NEA, France)
Jong Woon Kim (KAERI, South Korea)
Kyo-Youn Kim (KAERI, South Korea)
Soon Kim (LLNL, USA)
Ivo Kodeli (IJS, Sloveny)
Chikara Konno (JAEA, Japan)
Michal Kostal (CV Saclay, France)
Sigrid Kozielski (ESS, Sweden)
Joel Kulesza (LANL, USA)
Cheol-Woo Lee (KAERI, South Korea)
Hee-Seock Lee (PAL, South Korea)
Yi-Kang Lee (CEA Saclay, France)
Huanwen Lv (NPI, China)
Fadhel Malouch (CEA Saclay, France)
Davide Mancusi (CEA Saclay, France)
Vladimir Mares (Helmholtz Zentrum Muenchen, Germany)
John Mattingly (NCSU, USA)
Kuo Men (NCI, China)
Gunter Muhrer (ESS, Sweden)
Wayne Newhauser (LSU, USA)
Pedro Ortega (Spain)
Chang Je Park (SJU, South Korea)
Pedro Manual Peixoto Teles (IST, Portugal)
Odile Petit (CEA Saclay, France)
Igor Remec (ORNL, USA)
Michael Rising (LANL, USA)
José Rodenas Diago (UPV, Spain)
Stefan Roesler (CERN, Switzerland)
Thomas Saller (LANL, USA)
Francesc Salvat (University of Barcelona, Spain)
Toshiya Sanami (KEK, Japan)
Valentina Santoro (ESS, Sweden)
Arkady Serikov (KIT, Germany)
Hyung Jin Shim (SNU, South Korea)
Chang Ho Shin (HYU, South Korea)
Prakash Shrestha (LANL, USA)
Marco Silari (CERN, Switzerland)
Youwu Su (IMP, China)
Jean-Christophe Sublet (IAEA, Austria)
Michele Sutton-Ferenci (Penn State, USA)
Francois Trompier (IRSN, France)
Shuichi Tsuda (OECD NEA, France)
Yoshitomo Uwamino (RIKEN, Japan)
Ali Haghighat (Virginia Tech, USA)
Gumersindo Verdu (UPV, Spain)
Vasilis Vlachoudis (CERN, Switzerland)
Qinbing Wang (IHEP, China)
Yican Wu (Institute of Nuclear Energy Safety Technology, China)
Xiaobin Xia (SINAP, China)
X. George Xu (RPI, USA)
Demetri Zafiropoulos (LNL, Italy)
Luca Zanini (ESS, Sweden)
