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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|Panel
Monday, June 16, 2025|3:15–5:15PM CDT|Clark
Session Chair:
N. Dianne B. Ezell
Alternate Chair:
Pattrick Calderoni
Session Organizer:
Hyun Gook Kang
Instrumentation for advanced nuclear reactors presents several technical challenges: harsh environment, including high temperatures, high radiation levels and corrosion; material compatibility; radiation effects, in particular for the degradation of insulation, optical and electronic components; data integrity and security; real-time monitoring; miniaturization and integration; long-term reliability; qualification and certification; cost and maintenance. Several of these challenges are common to the existing fleet of water-cooled reactors and shared among advanced reactor concepts. However, different reactor concepts present unique challenges specific to the materials, fuels, operating conditions and design constraints foreseen. The first objective of this panel is to highlight fundamental challenges in nuclear instrumentation related to sodium cooled fast reactors, molten salt reactors and microreactors. A second objective is to discuss ongoing research activities within the Department of Energy, Nuclear Energy office in the area of instrumentation and control (I&C) that can be leveraged to address the identified technical challenges. To do so the panel gathers the National Technical Directors of programs engaged in advanced reactors research activities, namely the Advanced Sensor and Instrumentation (ASI) program, the Fast Reactor program (FRP), the Molten Salt Reactor (MSR) program and the microreactors program (MRP), in addition to an I&C expert from the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
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