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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.
Toshiharu Takeishi, Kenji Kotoh, Yoshiya Kawabata, Jun-ichi Tanaka, Shingo Kawamura, Masayuki Iwata
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 67 | Number 3 | April 2015 | Pages 596-599
Proceedings of TRITIUM 2013 | doi.org/10.13182/FST14-T88
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In the decommissioning project of tritium handling laboratories or/and facilities, oils such as used in the vacuum pumps have been left conventionally in their comprehensive facilities. Existence of oils, especially highly-contaminated with tritium, is becoming one of the serious problems in projects for decommissioning tritium handling laboratories because of no disposal way of the tritiated waste oils. Experiments using bubblers were carried out to examine the tritium contamination and decontamination of a volume of rotary-vacuum-pump-oil. Contamination of pump oil was observed by bubbling with tritiated water vapor and tritiated hydrogen gas. And then, subsequent decontamination of tritiated oil was processed by bubbling with pure water vapor and dry argon gas. The bubbling with water vapor was more effective than with the dry gas. Experimental results show that the water vapor bubbling in an oil bottle can remove tritium efficiently from the contaminated oil into another water-bubbling bottle.
