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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.
Z. T. Mendoza, C. A. Stevens, R. L. Ritzman
Nuclear Technology | Volume 53 | Number 2 | May 1981 | Pages 155-162
Technical Paper | Realistic Estimates of the Consequences of Nuclear Accident / Nuclear Safety | doi.org/10.13182/NT81-A32620
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Methodology often used to estimate the consequences of postulated nuclear reactor accidents was applied in an analysis of the SL-1 reactor accident, which occurred in January 1961. The work focused on use of the CORRAL and CRAC computer codes to predict radionuclide leakage from the accident and resulting downwind environmental contamination levels. Results were compared with findings developed from actual post-accident environmental sampling and analysis. The comparison indicated that the predictive capabilities of the two reactor accident consequence codes can be quite dependent on the input specifications for the analysis. In particular, the results show that the amount and the state of the initial source term is of considerable importance in determining the magnitude of the environmental contamination.
