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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.
Session|Panel
Friday, November 12, 2021|3:15–5:00PM EST
Session Chairs:
Patrick Snouffer (ANS YMG)
Kelsey Aumundson (ANS YMG)
Session Producers:
Matt Jasica (ANL)
In this engaging keynote address, expert consultant and thought leader Katherine Turner will present key diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) concepts and frameworks, discuss DEI commitments made by nuclear industry organizations, engage audience members to reflect on the current state of DEI in their organizations, and call on our community to take action and advance DEI in our organizations and broader society for a better world. Katherine is President of Global Citizen, LLC. Global Citizen, LLC is a consulting firm that works to strengthen leaders’ capacity to effect organizational transformation and social impact by advancing equity, diversity, inclusion, public health, human rights, and global competence. Global Citizen, LLC works in partnership with a diverse network of dynamic consultants and interns and collaborates with company leaders across all sectors to facilitate mission and values clarification; align vision, mission, values, policies, practices, and culture; and strengthen capacity in organizational, leadership, and intercultural competence, equity, diversity, and inclusion.
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