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2025 ANS Winter Conference & Expo
November 9–12, 2025
Washington, DC|Washington Hilton
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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.
Since 2021, the Local & Student Section Strategic Fund has has provided over $85,000 in grants to help support various initiatives. Here are just a few highlights from recipients in the past couple of years:
2024 Recipients
$4,878 - Project Development Committee - 2024 (K-12/Public Awareness and Communication)
$1,425 - Nuclear Science Exposition (Collaborative Projects/K-12)
$5,000 - Efforts to Advocate Nuclear Energy (Collaborative Projects/K-12/Public Awareness and Communication)
2023 Recipients
$5,000 - Nuclear Science Laboratory (NSL) - Spring 2024 (K-12)
$3,500 - Girl Scouts Get to Know Nuclear Patch Workshop (K-12)
$700 - Nuclear Energy Science and Technology (NEST’24) Seminar (Collaborative Projects/K-12)
2022 Recipients
$5,000 - Sponsorship support for the Future Net-Zero Innovators (FuNZI) student symposium at the Center for Advanced Energy Studies (CAES) (Collaborative Projects)
$5,000 - Live Captioning for Computational Research Access Network (CRANE) Workshops (Collaborative Projects)
$5,000 - High School Public Outreach (Collaborative Projects/K-12)
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