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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
Thursday, August 24, 2023|10:45AM–12:25PM EDT|Fairchild East/West
Session Chair:
Fulvio Mascari
Session Organizer:
Alternate Chair:
David L. Luxat
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Application of Artificial Neural Network to Identify Severe Accident State from Plant Signal Data
10:45–11:05AM EDT
Paul McMinn (Fauske and Assoc.), Nick Karancevic (Fauske and Assoc.), Chan Y. Paik (Fauske and Assoc.), Wei Wei (China Nuclear Power Operation Technology Corp.), Ma Guoyang (China Nuclear Power Operation Technology Corp.)
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Simulating the Power Noise Response due to Voiding in the NBSR During the February 3rd Incident
11:05–11:25AM EDT
Lap-Yan Cheng (Brookhaven), Athi Varuttamaseni (Brookhaven), Peter Kohut (Brookhaven), Anil Gurgen (Nat'l Institute of Standards & Technology), Dagistan Sahin (Nat'l Institute of Standards & Technology), Abdullah G. Weiss (Nat'l Institute of Standards & Technology)
Simulation of QUENCH-06 Experiment by MELCOR v2.2 with Uncertainty Analysis
11:25–11:45AM EDT
M. Garbarini (Politecnico di Milano), G. Agnello (Univ. Palermo), A. Bersano (ENEA), F. Gabrielli (Karlsruhe Institute for Technology), L. Luzzi (Politecnico di Milano), F. Mascari (ENEA)
Evaluation of Accident Tolerant Fuel Performance Under Long-Term Station Blackout Conditions
11:45AM–12:05PM EDT
Chris Faucett (Sandia), Bradley Beeny (Sandia), Jesse Phillips (Sandia), Karen Vierow Kirkland (TAMU)
Application of Lower Head Thermal-Mechanical Creep Failure Module in LHF Experiment
12:05–12:25PM EDT
Hao Yang (Xi'an Jiaotong Univ.), Bin Zhang (Xi’an Jiaotong Univ.), Pengcheng Gao (Xi’an Jiaotong Univ.), Jianqiang Shan (Xi’an Jiaotong Univ.)
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