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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|Lightning Talks
Thursday, October 10, 2024|10:15AM–12:00PM MDT|Room 1
Session Chair:
Thomas Folk (INL)
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Effective Hydrogen Gas Production Modeling Practices
10:15–10:22AM MDT
Greg Alder (Curtiss-Wright)
Paper
Nuclear Integrated Energy System to Provide Power and Water to El Hierro, Spain
10:22–10:29AM MDT
Logan Williams (INL)
Optimizing SMR Implementation and Waste Generation in Ontario's Future Energy Mix Using a Dynamic MILP Approach
10:29–10:36AM MDT
C. Colterjohn (McMaster Univ.), S. Nagasaki (McMaster Univ.), Y. Fujii (Univ. Tokyo)
Contextual Out-of-Distribution Detection and its Application in Evaluating Data-Driven Model Reliability
10:36–10:43AM MDT
Edward Chen (INL), Han Bao (INL)
Presentation Slides (Visible to Attendees)
Simulation of Graphite Reactor Components with the Grizzly Code
10:43–10:50AM MDT
Benjamin Spencer (INL), Lynn Munday (INL), Gyanender Singh (INL), Parikshit Bajpai (INL), Veerappan Prithivirajan (INL)
Spouted Bed Modeling for Coated Particle Fuel Productions Using MFiX and Barracuda
10:50–10:57AM MDT
Benjamin Stoyer (INL), Ryan Heldt (ORNL), Bryan Conry (ORNL), Eddie Lopez-Honorato (ORNL), Paul Schuck (INL), Tyler Gerczak (ORNL)
RELAP5-3D Coupling with the MOOSE-Framework
10:57–11:04AM MDT
Jan I.C. Vermaak (INL), George L. Mesina (INL)
RELAP5-3D Modeling Support for Research Nuclear Reactors
11:04–11:11AM MDT
M. Tano (INL), B. Cox (INL)
RELAP5-3D Validation Using the Primary Coolant Apparatus Test (PCAT) Facility
11:11–11:18AM MDT
C. Parisi (INL), R. Kile (INL)
The ViBRANT Platform, a Surrogate Nuclear Reactor
11:18–11:25AM MDT
Anthony Crawford (INL)
Curve Fitting Parameterization of Neutron Spectra
11:25–11:32AM MDT
Teancum Quist (INL), Tommy Holschuh (INL)
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