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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.
Nuclear Plant Instrumentation and Control & Human-Machine Interface Technology (NPIC&HMIT 2025)
Technical Session
Monday, June 16, 2025|3:15–5:15PM CDT|Chicago Ballroom E
Session Chair:
Brendan Kochunas
Alternate Chair:
Jamie B. Coble
Session Organizer:
Hyun Gook Kang
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The Automatic Reactor Control System (ARCS) Upgrade, Version 2.0 for TREAT
3:15–3:35PM CDT
Benjamin Baker (INL), Andrew Heim (INL), Jacob Hansen (INL), Kirby Hanson (INL), Benjamin Chase (INL)
Presented by Vivek Agarwal (INL)
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Towards An FPGA Asynchronous Motor V/f Control Applied on Safety Functions for Nuclear Systems
3:35–3:55PM CDT
Eduardo Couto Montenegro (EDF), Melha Bitam (EDF R&D), Youcef Mekahlia (EDF R&D)
Demonstration of Methodology for Advanced Autonomous Control in Flexible Power Operation of Multi-Unit SMRs
3:55–4:15PM CDT
Brendan Kochunas (Univ. Michigan), Qicang Shen (Univ. Michigan), Jamie Coble (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), Ben Lindley (University of Wisconsin Madison)
A Study on Co-Existing Heterogeneous Wireless Networks for Data Transmission within a Nuclear Facility
4:15–4:35PM CDT
S.A. Mahmud (Univ. Utah), I. Nasim (INL), V. Agarwal (INL), S. Kasera (Univ. Utah), M. Ji (Univ. Utah)
Enhancing Autonomous Control of Microreactors Using Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
4:35–4:55PM CDT
Leo Tunkle (Univ. Michgan), Kamal Abdulraheem (Univ. Michgan), Linyu Lin (INL), Majdi I. Radaideh (Univ. Michigan)
Mitigating Error Dependency with Hybrid System Operation: Quantifying Human Reliability Analysis
4:55–5:15PM CDT
Zeth duBois (University of Idaho), Roger Lew (University of Idaho), Anna C. Hall (INL), Ronald L. Boring (INL)
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