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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.
A. N. Bukin, V. S. Moseeva, S. A. Marunich, Yu. S. Pak, M. B. Rozenkevich, D. D. Vikulov
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 77 | Number 5 | July 2021 | Pages 373-381
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.1080/15361055.2021.1909991
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A comparative study of the efficiency of the hydrophobic catalyst RCTU-3SM in chemical isotope exchange reactions of hydrogen with water and the oxidation of trace amounts of hydrogen in relation to the detritiation tasks of technological streams was carried out. It is shown that, depending on the equilibrium conditions of the isotope exchange process, there is an optimum temperature at which the reaction rate has a maximum. It was found that the rate of oxidation reaction of trace hydrogen depends on the content of oxygen in the purified stream. With oxygen concentration reducing, the oxidation rate initially increases, and when the ratio of oxygen and hydrogen concentrations is less than 100, the rate remains constant within the experimental error.
