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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
Wednesday, June 18, 2025|10:00–11:45AM CDT|Miami/Scottsdale
Session Chair:
Hyun Gook Kang
Alternate Chair:
Carol S. Smidts
Session Organizer:
Syed Bahauddin Alam
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The Technical, Economic, Risk, and Adoption Assessment for Evaluating Innovation Projects in the Nuclear Industry
10:00–10:20AM CDT
Ryan M. Spangler (INL), Vivek Agarwal (INL)
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Paper Digital I&C Modernization Experience
10:20–10:40AM CDT
J. Pflugbeil (Framatome, Erlangen, Germany), Christine Bürger (Framatome, Erlangen, Germany), R. Heinesch (Framatome, Erlangen, Germany)
Presented by Taha Andelnaeem (Framatome)
Intelligent Algorithms for Soft Sensing: Current Trends and Future Prospects for Real-Time Digital Twin Systems
10:40–11:00AM CDT
Kazuma Kobayashi (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Farid Ahmed (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Samrendra Roy (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Sajedul Talukder (University of Texas EL Paso), Syed Bahauddin Alam (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
Towards a Policy Framework for Semi-Autonomous, Highly Automated, Remotely Operated(SAHARO) Nuclear Reactors
11:00–11:20AM CDT
Aidan Hallinan (MIT)
Joint Optimization of Nuclear System Inspection and Repair Planning to Reduce Maintenance Cost and Increase System Availability
11:20–11:40AM CDT
Yunfei Zhao (Univ. Maryland), Joseph O'Leary (Univ. Maryland), Mohamed Nassar (Univ. Maryland)
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