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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 RPD
Wednesday, June 18, 2025|3:15–5:00PM CDT|Belmont
Session Chair:
Cihang Lu (Brookhaven)
Alternate Chair:
Zeyun Wu
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Impact of Control Rod Neutron Absorber Depletion on Load-Following Capability in APR1400
3:15–3:35PM CDT
Husam Khalefih (KFUPM), Afaque Shams (KFUPM), YongHee Kim (KAIST)
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Analysis of Asymmetric Control Element Exposure on HFIR Performance
3:35–3:55PM CDT
Kevin Burg (ORNL), David Chandler (ORNL), Donny Hartanto (ORNL)
Linear Stability Analysis of Spatial Xenon Oscillations in Large PHWRs Using Modal Synthesis Method
3:55–4:15PM CDT
Suresh C. Kandpal (Nuclear Power Corporation of India), Abhishek Chakraborty (Nuclear Power Corporation of India), Suneet Singh (Indian Institute of Technology Bombay)
Development and Initial Results of an OpenMC Model of the High Flux Isotope Reactor
4:15–4:35PM CDT
Ragai Altamimi (ORNL), Kemal Ramic (ORNL), Jorge Navarro (ORNL)
Modeling Decay Heat with a Simplified Depletion Chain in OpenMC
4:35–4:55PM CDT
Tanmay Gupta (Columbia University), Benoit Forget (MIT)
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