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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 Integrated Phenomena in Reactor Materials
Thursday, December 14, 2023|10:00–11:40AM CST|Galerie 5
Session Chair:
Bruce A. Pint (ORNL)
Alternate Chair:
Stuart A. Maloy (PNNL)
Track Organizers:
Andrew Hoffman (n/a)
Adrian Couet (University of Wisconsin- Madison)
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Impact of Proton Irradiation on Corrosion Behavior of Zircaloy-4 and Zr-1Nb Alloys in Hydrogenated Water: A Post-Irradiation Study
10:00–10:20AM CST
Peng Wang (Univ. Michigan), Gary S. Was (Univ. Michigan)
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In-situ Irradiation and Elastic Stress Effects on Molten Fluoride Salt Corrosion of Structural Alloys
10:20–10:40AM CST
C. Evered (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), M. Tonks (Univ. Florida), K. Sridharan (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), A. Couet (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison)
Molten Chloride Salt Corrosion of Ultra-High Temperature Ceramics
10:40–11:00AM CST
Brian Carpman (Univ. Michigan), James Kelly (Univ. Michigan), Stephen S. Raiman (Univ. Michigan)
Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of Novel Nickel-Base Alloys for Molten Salt Reactor Applications
11:00–11:20AM CST
Ryan Thier (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), Jaimie Tiley (ORNL), Bruce Pint (ORNL), Ryan Gordon (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), Kumar Sridharan (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), Soumya Nag (ORNL), Steven Zinkle (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville)
Design of Functionally-Graded Cermet Coatings for Molten Salt Reactors by High Throughput Finite Element Modeling
11:20–11:40AM CST
K. Yan (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute), D. Zhao (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute), S. Sarkar (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute), R.Rahul (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute), J. Lian (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)
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