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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)
Kevin Coyne is the Senior Level Advisor for Probabilistic Risk Assessment in the Division of Risk Analysis in the NRC’s Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research. He joined the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) in 1994 as a graduate fellow and since that time has served in a number of progressively responsible positions, including reliability and risk analyst and operations engineer in the Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation, resident inspector in Region III; Technical Assistant and Chief, Probabilistic Risk Assessment Branch, Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research; and management positions in the Office of New Reactors and the Office of Nuclear Materials Safety and Safeguards. Before joining the NRC, Dr. Coyne was a nuclear shift test engineer at Norfolk Naval Shipyard. He has an undergraduate degree in nuclear engineering and masters’ degrees in nuclear and mechanical and aerospace engineering from the University of Virginia; and a masters and doctorate in reliability engineering from the University of Maryland. Dr. Coyne is a licensed Professional Engineer in the Commonwealth of Virginia, a graduate of the NRC’s Senior Executive Service Candidate Development Program, and a recipient of the NRC’s Meritorious Service Award.
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