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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|Advances in Designs, Materials, and Manufacturing
Monday, October 10, 2022|10:15–11:55AM EDT|Salon A/B
Session Chair:
Paul E. Cantonwine (ORNL)
Alternate Chair:
Joshua T. White (LANL)
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ULTRAFLOW Shield: A New Spacer Grid Coating for BWR Fuel
10:15–10:40AM EDT
Karsten Nowotka (Framatome ), Petra-Britt Hoffmann (Framatome ), Artur Hasselbach (Framatome ), Roland Geier (Framatome ), Sean Gray (Framatome ), Peng Wang (Univ. Michigan), Gary S. Was (Univ. Michigan)
Paper
Development of NSF Fuel Channels for Boiling Water Reactor Applications
10:40–11:05AM EDT
D. Lutz (Global Nuclear Fuel), R. Schneider (Global Nuclear Fuel), Y. Lin (Global Nuclear Fuel)
The Development and Use of Additive Manufacturing Processes and Design Freedom to Enable and Enhance Advanced Nuclear Fuel Debris Filters, Nozzles, and Assembly Components
11:05–11:30AM EDT
William Cleary (Westinghouse Electric Co.), Nathan Hansen (Westinghouse Electric Co.), Uffe Bergmann (Westinghouse Electric Co.)
Development of Additive Manufacturing Techniques and Processes to Significantly Improve the Economics and Advance the State of the Art for Spacer Grid Fabrication
11:30–11:55AM EDT
William Cleary (Westinghouse Electric Co.), Paul Evans (Westinghouse Electric Co.), Jack Beuth (Carnegie Mellon), Syed Zia Uddin (Carnegie Mellon)
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