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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.
18th International Probabilistic Safety Assessment and Analysis (PSA 2023)
Technical Session|PSA Analyses: Methods and Applications
Wednesday, July 19, 2023|3:15–5:00PM EDT|300B
Session Chair:
Mihai A. Diaconeasa
Alternate Chair:
Michael D. Muhlheim
Session Organizer:
Askin Guler Yigitoglu
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Identification and Prioritization of Sources of Uncertainty in External Hazard Probabilistic Risk Assessment: Project Update
3:15–3:40PM EDT
Michelle Bensi (Univ. Maryland, College Park), Zeyun Wu (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Katrina Groth (Univ. Maryland, College Park), Zhegang Ma (INL), Ray Schneider (Westinghouse Electric Co.), Tao Liu (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Kaveh Faraji Najarkolaie (Univ. Maryland, College Park), Ahmad Al-Douri (Univ. Maryland, College Park), Camille Levine (Univ. Maryland, College Park)
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Technical Approach to the High Energy Arcing Fault (HEAF) Issue
3:40–4:05PM EDT
Marko Randelovic (EPRI), Ashley Lindeman (EPRI), Dane Lovelace (Jensen Hughes), Victor Ontiveros (Jensen Hughes), Sean Hunt (Jensen Hughes), Jason Floyd (UL Research Institutes), Ken Fleischer (Fleischer Consultants)
Integrating Seismic Fragility of ASR-Affected Nuclear Containment Vessel in a Level-II SPRA in Support of Multi-Hazard Risk Assessment
4:05–4:30PM EDT
Akram S. Batikh (NCSU), Somayajulu L. N. Dhulipala (INL), Benjamin W. Spencer (INL), Albert Dahal (INL), Mihai A. Diaconeasa (NCSU)
On Truncation of Seismic Fragility Curves
4:30–4:55PM EDT
James C. Lin (ABS Consulting)
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