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2025 ANS Winter Conference & Expo
November 9–12, 2025
Washington, DC|Washington Hilton
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The Standards Committee is responsible for the development and maintenance of voluntary consensus standards that address the design, analysis, and operation of components, systems, and facilities related to the application of nuclear science and technology. Find out What’s New, check out the Standards Store, or Get Involved today!
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Senate EPW Committee to hold Nieh nomination hearing
Nieh
The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee will hold a nomination hearing Wednesday for Ho Nieh, President Donald Trump’s nominee to serve as commission at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Trump nominated Nieh on July 30 to serve as NRC commissioner the remainder of a term that will expire June 30, 2029, as Nuclear NewsWire previously reported.
Nieh has been vice president of regulatory affairs at Southern Nuclear since 2021, though since June 2024 he has been at the Institute of Nuclear Power Operations as a loaned executive.
A return to the NRC: If confirmed by the Senate, Nieh would be returning to the NRC after three previous stints totaling nearly 20 years.
The Accreditation Policy and Procedures Committee (APPC) has responsibility for interfacing with ABET, which is an organization that accredits postsecondary, degree-granting programs offered by regionally accredited institutions in the United States and nationally accredited institutions outside the United States and thus supports excellence in education worldwide. The American Nuclear Society (ANS) is 1 of 34 member societies that set policy, develop strategy, and conduct accreditation activities worldwide on behalf of their professions.
Within ABET, ANS is the lead society that determines the criteria for assessing engineering programs that include “nuclear,” “radiological,” or similar modifiers in their titles, and the APPC reviews and updates these criteria periodically. Further, the APPC recommends individuals for appointment to the ABET Board of Delegation, Area Delegations, and Commissions of ABET and nominates trained program evaluators (PEVs) to review nuclear engineering and nuclear engineering technology programs at academic institutions throughout the country and the world. The APPC recruits new PEVs and supports their training with ABET.
Learn more about ABET Accreditation and how to become a PEV