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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|1:00–2:45PM CDT|Chicago Ballroom E
Session Chair:
Sajedul Talukder
Alternate Chair:
Syed Bahauddin Alam
Session Organizer:
Vivek Agarwal
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Vision-Driven Fault Detection and Diagnostic in Nuclear Power Plants Using Large Language Models
1:00–1:20PM CDT
Jean C. Tonday Rodriguez (Florida Int'l Univ.), Dipan Sadekeen (Florida Int'l Univ.), Mohammed Ashiqur Rahman (Florida Int'l Univ.), Syed Bahauddin Alam (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
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Enhancing Learning for Nuclear Reactor Operator Trainees with Large Language Models
1:20–1:40PM CDT
Jason Clifford (NCSU), Julianna White (NCSU), Alexander Heifetz (ANL), Ayman Hawari (NCSU), Xu Wu (NCSU)
LLM-Powered Chatbot for Safety Compliance Assistance in Advance Reactors
1:40–2:00PM CDT
Ismail Hossain (Univ. Texas, El Paso), Sai Puppala (Southern Illinois University Carbondale), Jahangir Alam (Univ. Texas, El Paso), Kazuma Kobayashi (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Samrendra Roy (National Center for Supercomputing Applications), Syed Bahauddin Alam (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), Sajedul Talukder (Univ. Texas, El Paso)
Automated Generation of System Code Inputs from P&IDs Using Vision-Language Models
2:00–2:20PM CDT
Akshay J. Dave (ANL), Tat Nghia Nguyen (ANL), Dan O'Grady (ANL), Rui Hu (ANL), Richard B. Vilim (ANL)
Evaluating Economic Impact: An Investment Tool for Large Language Model Integration in Workweek Management
2:20–2:40PM CDT
Chaitee Godbole (INL), John Johnson (University of Minnesota), Vivek Agarwal (INL), Ryan Spangler (INL)
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