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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
Tuesday, June 17, 2025|10:00–11:45AM CDT|Chicago Ballroom G
Session Chair:
Anna Hall
Alternate Chair:
Jari O. Laarni
Session Organizer:
Hyun Gook Kang
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Adapting the Nuclear Industry to an Ageing Workforce
10:00–10:20AM CDT
Grace Routledge (Assystem)
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Modernizing the Nuclear Industry and New Ways of Working
10:20–10:40AM CDT
Zachary Spielman (INL), Asgeir Drøivoldsmo (Institute for Energy Technology), Trond Lilleng (Institute for Energy Technology), Jason Remer (INL)
Digital Transformation for the Existing Fleet: Where to Start?
10:40–11:00AM CDT
Anna Hall (INL), Michelle Velazquez (Idaho State Univ.), Ryan Spangler (INL), Patrick Murray (EQRPI Inc), Zachary Spielman (INL), Jeffrey Joe (INL)
Development of a Human Factors Engineering Maturity Method for the Nuclear Domain
11:00–11:20AM CDT
Jari Laarni (VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland)
Principles Emerging from Control Room Modernization Planning
11:20–11:40AM CDT
Stephen J. Kenney (BCP Engineers & Consultants), Tyrone S. Tonkinson (NA)
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