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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|New and Advanced Reactors
Wednesday, August 23, 2023|1:30–3:10PM EDT|Gunston East/West
Session Chair:
Piyush Sabharwall
Session Organizer:
Alternate Chair:
Jun Liao (Westinghouse Electric Co.)
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Convective Heat Transfer Characteristics Within a Shipping Container Transporting a Micro-HTGR
1:30–1:50PM EDT
T-Ying Lin (Purdue), Hitesh Bindra (Purdue), Piyush Sabharwall (INL), Richard Schultz (Idaho State)
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Development of Design Basis Safety Analysis Phenomena Identification and Ranking Table for the eVinci Microreactor
1:50–2:10PM EDT
Michael J. Patterson (Westinghouse Electric Co.), Jun Liao (Westinghouse Electric Co.), Megan E. Durse (Westinghouse Electric Co.), William Brown (Westinghouse Electric Co.), Richard F. Wright (Westinghouse Electric Co.)
Benchmark Studies of the MOOSE-Based Sockeye and BISON Codes for the eVinci Heat Pipe Microreactor
2:10–2:30PM EDT
Michael A. Shockling (Westinghouse Electric Co.), Megan E. Durse (Westinghouse Electric Co.), Liping Cao (Westinghouse Electric Co.), John Lojek III (Westinghouse Electric Co.), Rory A.F. Blunt (Westinghouse Electric Co.)
CFD Thermal Analysis of eVinci™ Microreactor -- Integrating Reactor Core and Primary Heat Exchanger
2:30–2:50PM EDT
Hong Xu (Westinghouse Electric Co.), Liping Cao (Westinghouse Electric Co.)
Presented by Michael Patterson (Westinghouse Electric Co.)
Size Assessment of the Heat Exchanger for He-Xe Closed Brayton Cycle Applied in Mobile, Land-Based Microreactor System
2:50–3:10PM EDT
Chaoran Guan (Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ.), Xiang Chai (Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ.), Tengfei Zhang (Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ.), Xiaojing Liu (Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ.)
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