Entergy Representatives Focus on Nuclear
Port Gibson, Miss.—Three
businesswomen from Grand Gulf Nuclear Station recently attended the US Women and
Global Women In Nuclear conference held in Washington, DC.
Delores Barnes, Entergy WIN treasurer
Sarah Moore, and Dianne Gibson, Entergy WIN vice president, joined with women
and men from around the world to discuss nuclear-related topics.
“Entergy sees the value of having its
employees attend these types of events, and I am glad to have had the
opportunity to go,” said Dianne Gibson, Entergy WIN vice president.
First-time attendee Delores Barnes
added her perspective. “I enjoyed learning more about WIN and meeting people
from all other sites, as well as those from other countries, like Japan and
Korea.”
Throughout the course of the
conference, which Entergy helped sponsor, speakers from all over the world
discussed such topics as managing nuclear risks, governmental oversight of
nuclear energy and communications. Representatives from the Internal Atomic
Energy Agency also spoke about their oversight of nuclear, which includes the
use of nuclear in medical technology.
The US chapter of WIN was established
in May 1999 to support an environment in nuclear energy and nuclear technologies
in which women and men can succeed; to provide a network through which women in
these fields can further their professional development; and to provide an
organized association through which the public is informed about nuclear energy
and technologies. To learn more, visit
www.winus.org.
“Having Entergy take part in WIN
demonstrates the company’s commitment to the overall possibilities that nuclear
has to offer,” said Gibson.
Entergy Corporation is an integrated
energy company engaged primarily in electric power production and retail
distribution operations. Entergy owns and operates power plants with
approximately 30,000 megawatts of electric generating capacity, and it is the
second-largest generator in the United States. Entergy delivers electricity to
2.7 million utility customers in Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas.
Entergy has annual revenues of more than $13 billion and approximately 14,700
employees.
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