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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.
Dimitris Valougeorgis, Michael Williams, Edward W. Larsen
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 99 | Number 2 | June 1988 | Pages 91-98
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE88-A23549
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A study of the spectral radius for the continuous form of the source iteration, diffusion synthetic acceleration, and various PL acceleration methods (L ≥ 1) for anisotropically scattering neutron transport is carried out via a Fourier stability analysis. The purpose of the study is to determine which acceleration scheme is optimum. The problem is formulated as a matrix eigenvalue problem with, in general, N + 1 iteration eigenvalues ω where N denotes the degree of anisotropy. The P1 acceleration method is determined as the most efficient PL approach for the cases of linearly and quadratically anisotropic scattering.
