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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|Severe Accidents
Wednesday, August 23, 2023|9:00–10:20AM EDT|Fairchild East/West
Session Chair:
Martina Adorni (NEA)
Alternate Chair:
Sanjeev Gupta
Session Organizer:
David L. Luxat
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Analysis of Hydrogen Diffusion Ignition in Oxygen-Nitrogen Mixtures
9:00–9:20AM EDT
Odai Nassar (Tel Aviv Univ.), Surya Kaundinya Oruganti (Tel Aviv Univ.), Marcel Martins Alves (Tel Aviv Univ.), Sergey Kudriakov (CEA), Etienne Studer (CEA), Liel Ishay (Nuclear Research Center Negev), Yoram Kozak (Tel Aviv Univ.)
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PANDA Experiment Addressing the Thermal Effects in a Large Water Pool Caused by Steam and a Lighter Non-condensable Gas Release from a Multi-Hole Sparger
9:20–9:40AM EDT
Domenico Paladino (Paul Scherrer Institute), Ralf Kapulla (Paul Scherrer Institute), Myeong Seon Chae (Paul Scherrer Institute), Sidharth Paranjape (Ostschweizer Fachhochschule), Guillaume Mignot (Oregon State), Pavel Kudinov (Royal Institute of Technology)
Recombination of Hydrogen and Carbon Monoxide on Silver-Based Zeolites in the Presence of Steam and at Pressures up to 3 Bar
9:40–10:00AM EDT
J. Mantzaras (Paul Scherrer Institute), V.K. Arumugam (Paul Scherrer Institute), J. Theile (Paul Scherrer Institute), D. Suckow (Paul Scherrer Institute), F. Espegren (Paul Scherrer Institute), T. Lind (Paul Scherrer Institute)
Experiments on the Impact of Carbon Monoxide on the Efficiency of Catalysts used for Hydrogen Mitigation in the Late Phase of a Severe Accident
10:00–10:20AM EDT
Ernst-Arndt Reinecke (Forschungszentrum Juelich), Gabriela Nobrega (IRSN), Michael Klauck (Forschungszentrum Jülich)
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