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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|Cosponsored by THD
Tuesday, June 17, 2025|1:00–2:45PM CDT|Lincolnshire 1/2
Session Chair:
Walid Mohamed (ANL)
Alternate Chair:
Kyle Anderson (ANL)
Track Organizer:
Erik H. Wilson (ANL)
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Progress Toward the Low Enrichment Uranium Fuel Conversion of the MIT Research Reactor
1:00–1:20PM CDT
Lin-Wen Hu (MIT), V. Mascolino (ANL), S. Yang (ANL), K. Anderson (ANL), A. S. Hebden (ANL), E. Wilson (ANL)
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Flow Testing for Hydraulic Performance Evaluation of USHPRR LEU Conversion
1:20–1:40PM CDT
Guanyi Wang (ANL), Cezary Bojanowski (ANL), Aaron Weiss (Oregon State), Alexander Westerberg (Oregon State), Andrew Hebden (ANL), Firat Cetinbas (ANL), Walid Mohamed (ANL), Wade Marcum (Oregon State), Erik Wilson (ANL)
Estimating Heat Generation and Energy Deposition in Low-Enriched Uranium Foil Targets
1:40–2:00PM CDT
Kyoung Lee (ORNL), David Chandler (ORNL), Nolan Goth (ORNL), Jim Nash (ORNL)
Preliminary Comparison of Depletion Solver Methods for MITR-II Fuel Management Codes
2:00–2:20PM CDT
Emilio Ahuactzin-Garcia (MIT), Kyle E. Anderson (ANL), Valerio Mascolino (ANL), Lin-Wen Hu (MIT), Erik H. Wilson (ANL)
A Progress Update on the University of Missouri Research Reactor (MURR) LEU Conversion to a Monolithic Alloy of U 10Mo under NNSA's USHPRR Project
2:20–2:40PM CDT
Maria Pinilla (Univ. Missouri Research Reactor), Valerio Mascolino (ANL), Austin J. Schnieders (Missouri Univ. Science and Technology), Caleb Braun (Univ. Missouri Research Reactor), Cezary Bojanowski (ANL), Firat Cetinbas (ANL), Guanyi Wang (ANL), Dhongik S. Yoon (ANL), David Jaluvka (ANL), Earl Feldman (ANL), John A. Stillman (ANL), Andrew Hebden (ANL), Walid Mohamed (ANL), Erik H. Wilson (ANL)
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