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2025 ANS Winter Conference & Expo
November 9–12, 2025
Washington, DC|Washington Hilton
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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.
Advanced Reactor Safety (ARS)
Technical Session
Monday, June 17, 2024|1:00–2:45PM PDT|Palm B
Session Chair:
Matthew D. Bucknor
Session Organizer:
Alternate Chair:
Koroush Shirvan
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Digital Risk Analysis in Nuclear Engineering Projects: Designing for Safety, Performance, Reliability, and Security
1:00–1:20PM PDT
Shannon L. Eggers (INL), Robert W. Youngblood (INL)
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Integration of NIS (Nuclear Instrumentation Systems) with FPGA based RPS controls as a Seamless Safety Control System and Hardware Platform
1:20–1:40PM PDT
Tighe Smith (Paragon Energy Solutions), Lewis Wetzel (Paragon Energy Solutions)
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Consequence-Based Security for a Low Enriched UO2 Fueled Microreactor
1:40–2:00PM PDT
Jérémy Mangin (Ecole polytechnique), Koroush Shirvan (MIT), Jeong Ik Lee (KAIST), Neil Todreas (MIT)
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Implementing Multiple Control Paths in the Dual Error Propagation Graph for Stochastic Failure Analysis of Digital Instrumentation and Control Systems
2:00–2:20PM PDT
Arjun Earthperson (NCSU), Priyanka Pandit (NCSU), Mihai A. Diaconeasa (NCSU)
Laying the Foundations for the Development of a Probabilistic Model Checking Method to Quantify Common Cause Failure Parameters in Digital Instrumentation and Control
2:20–2:40PM PDT
Priyanka Pandit (NCSU), Arjun Earthperson (NCSU), Mihai A. Diaconeasa (NCSU)
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