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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.
13th Nuclear Plant Instrumentation, Control & Human-Machine Interface Technologies (NPIC&HMIT 2023)
Dr. Garrett earned his PhD in Nuclear Engineering at MIT in 1998, specializing in Probabilistic Risk Assessment, then went on to Rocketdyne in southern CA, where he worked as a System Engineer in various capacities on every large liquid rocket engine developed by the company in the last 20+ years (X-33, RS-68, RS-83, RS-84, J-2X, & RS-25). Now as a member of the Space Nuclear Propulsion team at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center, his career has come full circle, helping to develop requirements for a nuclear thermal rocket intended to serve as prototype for a Mars transportation engine
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