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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.
Technical Session|Sponsored by IRD
Wednesday, June 18, 2025|1:00–2:45PM CDT|Lincolnshire 1/2
Session Chair:
Londrea Garrett
Alternate Chair:
Igor Jovanovic
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Controlling Radioluminescence Performance in Gdpo₄: Ln³⁺ Nanoparticles via Thermal Annealing for Nuclear Radiation Detection and Energy Conversion
1:00–1:20PM CDT
Santiago Bermudez Naranjo (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Marlen Calix Quezada (Young Members Group), Carlos E. Castano (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Jessika V. Rojas (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.)
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Demonstration of Plutonium Diversion Detection Methodology for Molten Salt Reactors using Gamma Emitting Fission Product Yields
1:20–1:40PM CDT
Alvin J. Lee (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Tomasz Kozlowski (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
Preliminary Verification and Validation of the MITR Simulator Against Reactor Operational Data
1:40–2:00PM CDT
Alison Okumura (MIT), Lin-Wen Hu (MIT)
Variational Auto Encoder Based Generative Inverse Model for Nuclear Detector Design
2:00–2:20PM CDT
Sachini Piyoni Ekanayake (GE Vernova Advanced Research Center), Zhanpan Zhang (GE Vernova Advanced Research Center), Scott Evans (GE Vernova Advanced Research Center), Uwe Wiedmann (GE Healthcare Technology and Innovation Center), Christopher Reynolds (GE Vernova Advanced Research Center)
Application of Monte Carlo Method with ORIGEN for Salt Sample Analysis in INL's Advanced Test Reactor Test Beds
2:20–2:40PM CDT
Kyoung Lee (ORNL), Greg Westphal (ORNL), Joanna McFarlane (ORNL), Wesley C. Williams (ORNL)
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