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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 HFICD
Wednesday, November 18, 2020|4:50–6:30PM EST
Session Chair:
Brent D. Shumaker
Alternate Chair:
Katrina M. Groth
Session Organizer:
Jamie B. Coble
Staff Producer:
Rick Michal (American Nuclear Society)
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Integrated Operations for Nuclear - ION
Kenneth D. Thomas (Idaho National Laboratory), S. J. Remer (Remer Consulting)
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On the Formalization of Development and Assessment Process for Digital Twins in the Nearly Autonomous Management and Control System
Nam T. Dinh (North Carolina State University), Han Bao (Idaho National Laboratory), Linyu Lin (North Carolina State University)
Development and Assessment of Physics-guided Machine Learning for Prognosis System
Nam T. Dinh (North Carolina State University), Linyu Lin (North Carolina State University), Anil Gurgen (North Carolina State University)
Quantitative Reasoning and Risk Assessment with Dynamic Bayesian Network
Junyung Kim (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute), Hyun Gook Kang (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)
Equipping Machine Learning with Uncertainty Quantification to Update Probabilistic Risk Assessment of Nuclear Power Plants using NRC Licensee Event Reports
Zahra Mohaghegh (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Catherine Blake (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Seyed Reihani (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Justin Pence (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Tatsuya Sakurahara (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Pegah Farshadmanesh (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Jaemin Yang (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
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