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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.
D. M. S. Ronden, M. Van den Berg, W. A. Bongers, B. S. Q. Elzendoorn, M. F. Graswinckel, B. Lamers, K. Van Nigtevecht, A. G. A. Verhoeven, M. A. Henderson
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 53 | Number 1 | January 2008 | Pages 104-113
Technical Paper | Special Issue on Electron Cyclotron Wave Physics, Technology, and Applications - Part 2 | doi.org/10.13182/FST08-A1658
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The current status of the mechanical design of the remote steering electron cyclotron resonance heating upper port launching system for ITER is presented. Although an alternative front steering launcher has now been selected as the reference design for ITER, the development of a remote steering launcher continues so that it can be used as a backup solution and as a candidate for DEMO. Since earlier proposals of a remote steering launcher could not fulfill the design criteria with respect to physics performance and because a number of engineering issues remained that have proven to be very difficult to solve, a change was applied to its layout. By increasing the length of the square waveguides that form the heart of the remote steering design, the layout of the optics could be further optimized so that the performance could be improved, while a number of engineering issues could be solved. This paper provides a brief description of the previous design followed by the modifications taken in the optical design to improve the physics performance by reducing the beam size at the resonance location. A first indication is given that the expected reduction of beam size at the resonance location is more than 30%, relative to earlier designs.
