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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.
Hash Hashemian is the President of the American Nuclear Society and has been an active member since 1975.
Dr. Hashemian is the CEO of Analysis and Measurement Services Corporation (AMS), a nuclear engineering firm headquartered in Knoxville, Tenn., that he cofounded in 1977. Under his leadership, AMS has developed instrumentation and control system testing analysis equipment, training, and services that have been delivered to 26 countries. Plants serviced by AMS include virtually every U.S. nuclear power plant, as well as many in Europe and Asia.
Aside from his work in the industry, Hashemian teaches at two universities. He is an adjunct professor of practice at Georgia Institute of Technology’s Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering and an adjunct professor of nuclear engineering at the University of Tennessee–Knoxville. He holds three doctoral degrees in electrical, nuclear, and computer engineering.
Hashemian is the author or coauthor of 22 U.S. patents. In addition to hundreds of peer-reviewed journal and magazine articles, conference papers, reports, and guideline documents, he has written three books on instrumentation and control in nuclear power plants. He has also authored standards for the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the Electric Power Research Institute, the International Atomic Energy Agency, and the International Electrotechnical Commission, among others.
He is a member of the European Nuclear Society and a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, the International Society of Automation, and the American Nuclear Society. Within ANS, Hashemian has served in a number of roles across various conferences and committees, including as vice chair of the Development Committee; chair of the Honors and Awards Committee; and chair of the Human Factors, Instrumentation, and Control Division.
He is also an active nuclear advocate in Tennessee politics, having served on both the Tennessee Nuclear Energy Advisory Council and the state’s Energy Policy Council. At the national level, he served as a member of the Civil Nuclear Trade Advisory Committee.
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