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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.

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James S. Baker

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Douglas G. Bowen

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Stanley H. Levinson

2020

George Flanagan
N. Prasad Kadambi

2019

James Florence
Ian B. Wall

2018

Dr. Robert D. Busch

2017

Dr. Abraham Weitzberg

2016

Andrew O. Smetana

2015

Jerry E. Hicks
Donald J. Wakefield

2014

Steven L. Stamm

2013

Carl A. Mazzola

2012

Patricia A. Schroeder
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2010

Allen Camp
Thomas McLaughlin

2009

Calvin M. Hopper

2008

Donald J. Spellman

2007

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2006

Robert J. Budnitz

2005

James F. Mallay

2004

Charles H. Moseley

2003

Wade J. Richards

2002

Francis M. Alcorn

2001

Michael J. Wright

2000

William C. Hopkins

1999

Dimitrios Cokinos

1998

Marilyn D. Weber

1997

David R. Smith

1996

Tawfik M. Raby

1995

Hugh K. Clark

1994

George L. Wessman

1993

Joseph T. Thomas

1992

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1991

David K. Trubey

1990

James F. Mallay

1989

Walter H. D'Ardenne

1988

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