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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.
Akira Endoh, Masayoshi Watanabe, Shuntaro Watanabe
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 11 | Number 3 | May 1987 | Pages 492-496
Technical Paper | KrF Laser | doi.org/10.13182/FST87-A25031
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
Two modules of a low impedance electron-beam (e-beam) machine were developed to pump a 200-J, 70-ns KrF laser from both sides. The laser was designed as the power amplifier of a picosecond, terawatt excimer laser system, which will be applied to a basic physical research on extreme ultraviolet lasers. Each driving circuit of the e-beam diode was a 2.8.-Ω double parallel plate Blumlein with a 500-kV rail gap as the main switch. The energy deposited in the 42-ℓ laser gain region was measured by several diagnostics to determine the energy transfer efficiency and the spatial uniformity of energy deposition with the guide magnetic field of 1 kG. The triggered operation of 500-kV rail gaps, which is essential for amplifier system synchronization, was realized by the ultraviolet laser irradiation along the rail-gap axis with reduced switching time and jitter of 20 and 1.9 ns, respectively.
