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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.
Garry C. Gose, John G. Shatford, Lance J. Agee
Nuclear Technology | Volume 122 | Number 2 | May 1998 | Pages 132-145
Technical Paper | RETRAN | doi.org/10.13182/NT98-A2857
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A RETRAN-03 computer code version has been developed to analyze reactor transients requiring three-dimensional reactor core neutronics models. The new code will enable the user to couple a complex RETRAN nuclear steam supply system model to a detailed multidimensional neutronics core model.The neutronics model is based on a three-dimensional nodal model using the analytic nodal method that allows a detailed three-dimensional representation of the core but requires less computational effort than conventional fine-mesh finite difference methods. The model uses a full two-group diffusion equation implementation coupled to six delayed neutron groups.Two representative analyses were used as evaluation cases. The work involved the first use of the RETRAN-03 advanced system analysis code using three-dimensional neutronics methods. The purpose of these studies was to gain experience in RETRAN-3D modeling methods and to compare the results with previous calculations as part of a code verification effort.The work has led to a new capability for the RETRAN-03 code, enabling the user to examine the core behavior in more detail than in previous versions and to study transients that involve nonsymmetric core behavior.
