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Nuclear Energy Conference & Expo (NECX)
September 8–11, 2025
Atlanta, GA|Atlanta Marriott Marquis
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Ho Nieh nominated to the NRC
Nieh
President Trump recently nominated Ho Nieh for the role of commissioner in the Nuclear Regulatory Commission through the remainder of a term that will expire June 30, 2029.
Nieh has been the vice president of regulatory affairs at Southern Nuclear since 2021, though he is currently working as a loaned executive at the Institute of Nuclear Power Operations, where he has been for more than a year.
Nieh’s experience: Nieh started his career at the Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory, where he worked primarily as a nuclear plant engineer and contributed as a civilian instructor in the U.S. Navy’s Nuclear Power Program.
From there, he joined the NRC in 1997 as a project engineer. In more than 19 years of service at the organization, he served in a variety of key leadership roles, including division director of Reactor Projects, division director of Inspection and Regional Support, and director of the Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
13th Nuclear Plant Instrumentation, Control & Human-Machine Interface Technologies (NPIC&HMIT 2023)
Technical Session
Tuesday, July 18, 2023|10:00–11:45AM EDT|301B
Session Chair:
Linyu Lin
Alternate Chair:
Junyung Kim
Session Organizer:
Jamie B. Coble
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Presentation Slides (Visible to Attendees) — Linyu Lin
Presentation Slides (Visible to Attendees) — Joseph Oncken
Presentation Slides (Visible to Attendees) — Tim Nguyen
Presentation Slides (Visible to Attendees) — Kyle Warns
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Adaptive Data-Driven Model Predictive Control for Heat Pipe Microreactors
10:00–10:25AM EDT
Linyu Lin (INL), Benjamin Zastrow (Univ. Texas, Austin), Joseph Oncken (INL), Vivek Agarwal (INL)
Paper
Adaptive Model Predictive Control for Heat-Pipe-Cooled Microreactors Under Normal and Heat Pipe Failure Conditions
10:25–10:50AM EDT
Joseph Oncken (INL), Linyu Lin (INL), Vivek Agarwal (INL)
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Design and Prototyping of Diagnostic Methods to Support Autonomous Operations of Advanced Reactors
10:50–11:15AM EDT
Tat Nghia Nguyen (ANL), Akshay J. Dave (ANL), Roberto Ponciroli (ANL), Richard B. Vilim (ANL)
An Interpretation of the Bellman Equation for Risk-Informed Decision Making
11:15–11:40AM EDT
Kyle Warns (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute), Asad Ullah Amin Shah (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute), Junyung Kim (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute), Hyun Gook Kang (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)
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