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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|Sponsored by ETWDD
Wednesday, November 18, 2020|2:40–4:20PM EST
Session Chair:
JoAnne Hanners (DOE-Idaho)
Alternate Chair:
Gregory A. Bala
Staff Producer:
Susan Gallier (American Nuclear Society)
The U.S. Department of Energy – Nuclear Energy supports student research through direct support of research and development (R&D) programs across the United States as part of the Nuclear Energy University Program (NEUP). Additionally, the Integrated University Program (IUP) works concurrently to attract qualified nuclear science and engineering students (NS&E) to nuclear energy professions by providing undergraduate-level scholarships and graduate-level fellowships. The scholarships and fellowships are focused on two-, four-year, and graduate programs in science and engineering disciplines related to nuclear energy such as nuclear engineering, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, chemistry, health physics, nuclear materials science, radiochemistry, applied nuclear physics, nuclear policy, radiation protection technology, nuclear power technology, nuclear maintenance technology, and nuclear engineering technology. The papers in this session are outcomes made possible by this support.
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A Novel Miniature Creep Tester for Virgin and Neutron Irradiated Clad Alloys
Lucas Maciel de Andrade Lima (North Carolina State University), Samuel Marcom (North Carolina State University), Tasnim Hassan (North Carolina State University)
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Gas Migration Phenomena Through Interfaces in Engineering Barrier Systems
Muhammad Ali-Falak (LANL), Marcelo J. Sanchez (LANL), Enrique Romero-Morales (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain)
Effect of Heating and Drying on Clay-Barrier Gas-Permeability
Bohan Zhou (Texas A&M Univ.), Marcelo J. Sanchez (Texas A&M Univ.)
Properties of a Helium Ion Beam Degrader for Implanting SSJ2 Tensile Specimens at the LBL 88-Inch Cyclotron
Sarah Stevenson (University of California, Berkeley), Adi Ben-Artzy (UC Berkeley), Lee Bernstein (LBL), Peter Hosemann (UC Berkeley)
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