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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.
C. W. Sayles
Nuclear Technology | Volume 9 | Number 5 | November 1970 | Pages 694-699
Paper | Fuel | doi.org/10.13182/NT70-A28744
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A method is presented for the fuel element designer to relate the reliability required of the fuel element to its design. Random and systematic uncertainties are used to determine the fraction of fuel rods that can exceed some limit and to determine the probability that the fraction exceeding the limit is less than that allowed. The method is used with analytical models of fuel and cladding behavior. The method requires that the designer not only know the values for the variables in his analytical model, he must also know the uncertainties in these variables. When using this technique, the fuel element designer can see which of the various uncertainties are contributing the most to the uncertainty in the margin. Those uncertainties that contribute the most are those that merit additional expenditure for research and development or additional quality control effort.
