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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.
Y. Hatano, V. Kh. Alimov, A. V. Spitsyn, N. P. Bobyr, D. I. Cherkez, S. Abe, O. V. Ogorodnikova, N. S. Klimov, B. I. Khripunov, A. V. Golubeva, V. M. Chernov, M. Oyaidzu, T. Yamanishi, M. Matsuyama
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 67 | Number 2 | March 2015 | Pages 361-364
Proceedings of TRITIUM 2013 | doi.org/10.13182/FST14-T30
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The effects of displacement damage, plasma exposure and heat loads on T retention in reduced-activation ferritic/martensitic (RAFM) steels were investigated by exposing the steels to DT gas at 473 K. Despite enormous change in surface morphology, T retention in the heat-loaded specimen was comparable with that in the unloaded specimen. The exposure to plasma resulted in a drastic increase in T retention at the surface and/or sub surface. However, the T trapped at the surface/subsurface was easily removed by maintaining the specimens in air at ∼300 K. Formation of radiation-induced defects led to a significant increase in T retention, and T trapped in the defects was not removed at ∼300 K. These observations suggest that displacement damages have the largest effects on T retention at ∼473 K.