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2025 ANS Winter Conference & Expo
November 8–12, 2025
Washington, DC|Washington Hilton
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DNFSB’s Summers ends board tenure, extending agency’s loss of quorum
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The Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board, the independent agency responsible for ensuring that Department of Energy facilities are protective of public health and safety, announced that the board’s acting chairman, Thomas Summers, has concluded his service with the agency, having completed his second term as a board member on October 18.
Summers’ departure leaves Patricia Lee, who joined the DNFSB after being confirmed by the Senate in July 2024, as the board’s only remaining member and acting chair. Lee’s DNFSB board term ends in October 2027.
Nuclear Plant Instrumentation and Control & Human-Machine Interface Technology (NPIC&HMIT 2025)
He graduated from the Department of Nuclear Engineering at Hanyang University in 1995. He completed PhD degrees in Nuclear Engineering at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) in 2019. He joined Korea Electric Power Research Institute in 1997 and had performed the fluid system design, safety analysis of APR1400 and contributed to acquisition of a Design Certification from Korea regulatory body in 2002. Then, he moves to Korea Hydro and Nuclear Power, the government owned sole nuclear utility in Korea. In KHNP, he works as a technical manager for APR1400 USNRC DC project and got a design certification in 2019. Currently, he works as a director of innovative-SMR development project funded by Korea government. Also, he is a vice-chair of thermo-hydraulic division of Korean Nuclear Society.
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