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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
Monday, September 26, 2022|1:10–3:15PM PDT|Seaport
Session Chair:
Douglas Di Julio (European Spallation Source)
Alternate Chair:
Stephane Bourganel (CEA)
Session Organizer:
Thomas M. Miller (ORNL)
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Boron-Lined Proportional Counter Sensitivity Determined by Simulation
1:10–1:35PM PDT
Stephane Bourganel (CEA), Laurence Pangault-Granier (CEA), Aly Elayeb (PHOTONIS Nuclear Instrumentation)
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Pulsed Radiation Monitoring Using Ionisation Chamber with Dedicated Integrated Circuit at CERN Antimatter-Facility
1:35–2:00PM PDT
Sarath Kundumattathil Mohanan (CERN), Hamza Boukabache (CERN), Vassili Cruchet (CERN), Daniel Perrin (CERN)
Presented by Stefan Roesler (CERN)
Radon Detection on a Spanish Natural Gas Well Using Electrets and Lucas Cell
2:00–2:25PM PDT
A. Noverques (Politechnic Univ. Valencia), B. Juste (Politechnic Univ. Valencia), B. Mora (GD Energy Systems), A. Arribas (GD Energy Systems), G. Verdu (Politechnic Univ. Valencia)
Optimization of a GaN Microstructured Thermal Neutron Detector Geometry Using MCNP
2:25–2:50PM PDT
Eric Giunta (Kansas State), Micheal Pfeifer (Kansas State), Bryce Davidson (Kansas State), Sanchit Sharma (Kansas State), Keith Huddleston (Kansas State), Nathanael Simerl (Kansas State), Douglas S. McGregor (Kansas State), Walter McNeil (Kansas State), Amir A. Bahadori (Kansas State)
Measurement of Response Functions of Enriched Lithium-6 CLYC Scintillator for 1.2 MeV, 5.0 MeV and 14.8 MeV Neutrons
2:50–3:15PM PDT
So Kamada (National Maritime Research Institute), Masayuki Hagiwara (National Institutes for Quantum Science and Technology)
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