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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 NCSD
Wednesday, November 15, 2023|1:00–2:45PM EST|Columbia 11
Session Chair:
Angela Chambers
Session Organizer:
Alternate Chair:
Douglas G. Bowen
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Progress Towards the Reality of Low-Temperature Critical Experiments with Low-Temperature TEX
1:00–1:20PM EST
Eric Aboud (LLNL), Jesse Norris (LLNL), Catherine Percher (LLNL), Nick Killingsworth (LLNL), Paul Yap-Chiongco (LLNL), Venkata Ravindra (National Nuclear Laboratory), Alfie O'Neill (National Nuclear Laboratory), Deborah Hill (National Nuclear Laboratory), Steve Graham (National Nuclear Laboratory)
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Development of Shielding Benchmarks Using the Godiva IV Assembly
1:20–1:40PM EST
Riley Cumberland (ORNL)
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Critical Experiments Targeting the Epithermal/Intermediate Cross Sections of Tantalum
1:40–2:00PM EST
David E. Ames (Sandia), Gary A. Harms (Sandia), Elijah Lutz (Sandia), Mathieu Dupont (ORNL)
Godiva IV Burst Reproducibility and Diagnostic Testing
2:00–2:20PM EST
Joetta M. Goda (LANL), Travis Grove (LANL), Bruce Pierson (PNNL), Danielle Redhouse (Sandia), Robert A. Weldon Jr. (LANL)
Preliminary Analysis of the LLNL Measurements for the Joint LLNL, LANL, and IRSN High Multiplication Subcritical Measurements
2:20–2:40PM EST
Jesse Norris (LLNL)
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