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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.
Ivan Petrovic, Pierre Benoist, Guy Marleau
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 122 | Number 2 | February 1996 | Pages 151-166
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE96-A24152
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The influence of assembly or cell heterogeneity on neutron leakage has been consistently taken into account in the TIBERE simplified heterogeneous B1 model. The assumption adopted within the TIBERE model that neutrons are specularly reflected on the boundary introduces two problems. Calculations with this model may become rather time consuming and even unnecessarily long in the case of a Canada deuterium uranium reactor cell, and the peripheral or total coolant voiding of a pressurized water reactor assembly leads to infinite leakage coefficients. These problems have been overcome by the development of another simplified heterogeneous B1 leakage model, TIBERE-2, which has quasi-isotropic reflecting boundary conditions. The TIBERE-2 model uses similar approximations as the TIBERE model and yields an iterative scheme to simultaneously compute multigroup scalar fluxes and directional currents in a heterogeneous geometry. These values enable the evaluation of directional space-dependent leakage coefficients. This new model requires the classical and directional escape and transmission probabilities in addition to the classical and directional first-flight collision probabilities calculated for an open assembly. The TIBERE-2 model has been introduced for general two-dimensional geometry into the DRAGON multigroup transport code. The numerical results obtained by DRAGON show that the TIBERE-2 model represents leakages much better than the homogeneous B1 leakage model. Moreover, the TIBERE-2 model yields results that are extremely close to those obtained by the TIBERE model with considerably shorter computing times.
