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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|Special Topics
Monday, August 21, 2023|1:30–3:10PM EDT|Dupont
Session Chair:
Shuichiro Miwa
Alternate Chair:
Philippe M. Bardet
Session Organizer:
Caleb S. Brooks
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Validation in Water of a New Methodology for the Vibrational Analysis of Rotating Components in a High-Density Fluid
1:30–1:50PM EDT
Kamiel Ceusters (Ghent Univ.), Michiel Van Damme (Ghent Univ.), Henri Dolfen (Ghent Univ.), Nicolas Delaissé (Ghent Univ.), Tom Verstraete (Ghent Univ.), Joris Degroote (Ghent Univ.), Kirill Makhov (SCK CEN), Mikhail Iarmonov (SCK CEN), Katrien Van Tichelen (SCK CEN)
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Sensor Selection for the Measurement of Fuel Plate Deflections
1:50–2:10PM EDT
Michael Legatt (Oregon State), Aaron Weiss (Oregon State), Trevor Kent Howard (Oregon State), Wade Marcum (Oregon State), Cezary Bojanowski (ANL), Guanyi Wang (ANL), Andrew Hebden (ANL)
Fluid-Structure Interaction Analysis of University of Missouri Research Reactor Low-Enriched Uranium Fuel Element
2:10–2:30PM EDT
Guanyi Wang (ANL), Cezary Bojanowski (ANL), Wilson Cowherd (ANL), Walid Mohamed (ANL), Erik Wilson (ANL), Maria Pinilla (University of Missouri-Columbia Research Reactor)
PWR Nuclear Fuel Rod Flow Induced Vibration Simulation Using VITRAN Code for Hexagonal Fuel Assembly
2:30–2:50PM EDT
Alireza Mofidi (Westinghouse Electric Co.), Roger Y. Lu (Westinghouse Electric Co.)
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