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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|Chicago Ballroom F
Session Chair:
Jamie B. Coble
Alternate Chair:
Vivek Agarwal
Session Organizer:
Xingang Zhao
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Knowledge-Driven Explainable AI for Automated Defect Detection in Nuclear Reactor Components
10:00–10:20AM CDT
A. Young (Univ. Strathclyde), J. Zabalza (Univ. Strathclyde), Z. Fei (Univ. Strathclyde), G. West (Univ. Strathclyde), P. Murray (Univ. Strathclyde), S. McArthur (Univ. Strathclyde)
Presented by Callum Manning (Univ. Strathclyde)
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System-Level Prognostics with Explainable Artificial Intelligence
10:20–10:40AM CDT
Ark Ifeanyi (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), Mattia Zanotelli (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), Jamie Coble (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville)
AI for Interpreting Nuclear Power Plant Documents for Power Uprates
10:40–11:00AM CDT
Norman John Mapes Jr. (INL), Kellen Giraud (INL), Brian Wilcken (INL), Ahmad Al Rashdan (INL), Marcio de Queiroz (INL)
Proximity-Based Anomaly Detection Using Graph Neural Networks for NPP Abnormal Operations
11:00–11:20AM CDT
Jeonghun Choi (KAERI), Seo Ryong Koo (KAERI)
Role of Uncertainty Quantification in the Explainability of Large Language Models for the Nuclear Industry
11:20–11:40AM CDT
Nancy J. Lybeck (INL), Vaibhav Yadav (INL), Ronald L. Boring (INL), Vivek Agarwal (INL)
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