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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|3:15–5:15PM CDT|Chicago Ballroom E
Session Chair:
N. Dianne B. Ezell
Alternate Chair:
Hyun Gook Kang
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An Illustrative Top-Level Safety Assurance Case for an SMR
3:15–3:35PM CDT
Xueli Gao (Institute For Energy Technology, Norway), Peter Karpati (Institute For Energy Technology, Norway), Norbert Carte (U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission)
Presented by Rune Winther (IFE)
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Space Fission Instrumentation and Control Technology Gaps
3:35–3:55PM CDT
N. Dianne Bull Ezell (ORNL), Tyler Steiner (NASA GRC), Joshua Leblanc (NASA Marshall Space Flight Center), Jarvis Caffrey (NASA Marshall Space Flight Center)
Effective STPA Application Through Organizational Capability: Lessons Learned from Practical Applications
3:55–4:15PM CDT
Ankur Shukla (Institute for Energy Technology, Norway), Charlotte Vrangsund (Institute for Energy Technology, Norway), Xueli Gao (Institute for Energy Technology, Norway), Sizarta Sarshar (Institute for Energy Technology, Norway), Bjørn Axel Gran (Institute for Energy Technology, Norway)
Strain Monitoring with Embedded Fiberoptic Sensors and Modeling with Machine Learning (ML) Tools
4:15–4:35PM CDT
Matthew Laurent (Florida Int'l Univ.), Jorge Arias (Florida Int'l Univ.), Pedro Rodriguez (Florida Int'l Univ.), Benjamin Vargas (Florida Int'l Univ.), Sebastian Vargas (Florida Int'l Univ.), Ibrahim Tansel (Florida Int'l Univ.), Sabri Tosunoglu (Florida Int'l Univ.), Maria Gonzalez (Florida Int'l Univ.)
Instrumentation and Control Cable Design and Selection in Advanced Reactor Environments
4:35–4:55PM CDT
Patrick Ward (Analysis and Measurement Services Corp.), Codi Ferree (Analysis and Measurement Services Corp.), Trevor Toll (Analysis and Measurement Services Corp.), Adam Deatherage (Analysis and Measurement Services Corp.)
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