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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 MSTD
Tuesday, November 17, 2020|4:50–6:30PM EST
Session Chair:
J. Rory Kennedy
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Alternate Chair:
Kenneth J. Geelhood
Staff Producer:
Jessie Vazquez (American Nuclear Society)
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Post-Irradiation Examination System Development for Irradiated Optical Components of In-Situ Spectroscopic Sensors
Bryan Morgan (University of Michigan Ann Arbor), Igor Jovanovic (University of Michigan), Paul Marotta (Micro Nuclear LLC), Piyush Sabharwall (Idaho National Laboratory), Milos Burger (University of Michigan), Patrick Skrodzki (University of Michigan)
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Comparative oxidation studies of glassy carbon and nuclear graphite in air
Yaqiao Wu (Boise State University), John Stempien (Idaho National Laboratory), Junhua Jiang (Idaho National Laboratory)
Impact of Ionizing Irradiation on Surface Wettability: Fundamentals and Application in Engineering Superhydrophobic Surfaces
Arunkumar Seshadri (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Eric C. Forrest (Sandia National Laboratories), Bren A. Philips (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Koroush Shirvan (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Preparation of U-10Zr Alloys for Irradiation Testing in the Advanced Test Reactor to Enable MARMOT Assessment and Validation
Doug L. Porter (Idaho National Laboratory), Mitchell K. Meyer (Idaho National Laboratory), Karim Ahmed (Texas A&M University), J. K. Jewell (Idaho National Laboratory), Laura Sudderth (Idaho National Laboratory), Moiz I. Butt (Texas A&M University), Sean M. McDeavitt (Texas A&M University)
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