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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.
19th International Conference on Probabilistic Safety Assessment and Analysis (PSA 2025)
Technical Session|Sponsored by NISD
Wednesday, June 18, 2025|10:00–11:45AM CDT|Houston/Kansas City
Session Chair:
Kent Welter
Alternate Chair:
Tatsuya Sakurahara
Session Organizer:
David Grabaskas
Session will conclude with remarks from Kyle Hope (Westinghouse) on Lessons Learned from eVinci Nuclear Test Reactor PRA Peer Review.
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Pilots’ Readiness to Fly - Lower the Risk Caused by Alcohol Consumption Using Facial Recognition Technology
10:00–10:20AM CDT
Yanbing Chen (School of Graduate Studies, College of Aviation, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University), Mingyi Wang (Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University), Joao Souza Dias Garcia (School of Graduate Studies, College of Aviation, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University), Shuzhen Luo (Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University)
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Complex System Diagnostics Using LLM-Informed Models and Knowledge Graphs
10:20–10:40AM CDT
Saman Marandi (University of Maryland), Yu-Shu Hu (DML), Mohammad Modarres (University of Maryland)
Automation Trustworthiness and Transparency in Nuclear Power Plants: Definitions, Methodologies, and Case Studies
10:40–11:00AM CDT
Muhammad Hammad Khalid (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Ha Bui (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Ahmad Al Rashdan (INL), Seyed Reihani (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Zahra Mohaghegh (University of Illinois Urbana Champaign)
Artificial Neural Network-Based Approach for Computing Fussell-Vesely Importance Measures in Fault Tree Analysis
11:00–11:20AM CDT
Xingyu Xiao (Tsinghua Univeristy), Wenjing Li (China Nuclear Power Engineering Co., LTD), Peng Chen (Chinese Academy of Sciences), Ben Qi (Tsinghua Univeristy), Jingang Liang (INET, Tsinghua University), Jiejuan Tong (INET, Tsinghua University), Haitao Wang (National Tsinghua University)
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