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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
Friday, April 9, 2021|2:30–4:30PM EDT
Session Chair:
Joshua Hoffman (Univ. of Ill., Urbana-Champaign)
Alternate Chair:
Ishita Trivedi
Session Organizer:
Edward Chen (NCSU)
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Session Producers:
William Dawn (NCSU)
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Design of a Pulsed Power Facility to Handle High Fusion Yields
Levi Welch (University of MIchigan), Ryan D. McBride (University of Michigan Ann Arbor), Grant Young (Univ. of Michigan), Jack Tait (Univ. of Michigan)
Paper
A Comparison of Ablative Performance of Materials for Use in Tokamak Diverter Region
Leigh Winfrey (Pennsylvania State University), Alec Cacheris (University of Tennessee Knoxville), Vincent Cintron (Pennsylvania State University), Sean R. Kosslow (Pennsylvania State University)
Photon Energy Deposition; EPEC Experiments Modeled via MCNP
Thomas Schlitt (AFIT), Darren Holland (AFIT), James Bevins (AFIT)
OpenFOAM Modeling of Beryllium Splashing in Fusion Devices
Gennady Miloshevsky (Virginia Commonwealth University), Cheng Zhang (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.)
Fusion Material Joint and Composite Testing by Three Point Bending
Jean Paul Allain (Pennsylvania State University), John R. Echols (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Lauren M. Garrison (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Nathan C. Reid (University of Illinois)
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