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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
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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.
Technical Session|Computational Thermal Hydraulics
Monday, August 21, 2023|3:30–5:10PM EDT|Columbia 1
Session Chair:
Jun Liao (Westinghouse Electric Co.)
Alternate Chair:
Xu Wu (NCSU)
Session Organizer:
Igor A. Bolotnov (NCSU)
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Investigation of Water and Helium-Cooled Decay Heat Removal Systems in a Gas-Cooled Fast Reactor
3:30–3:50PM EDT
Gusztáv Mayer (Centre for Energy Research), Attila Guba (Centre for Energy Research)
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LTO Modifications to Reduce the PTS Issue -- Results of TH Calculations in the Context of the APAL European Project
3:50–4:10PM EDT
Markku Puustinen (LUT Univ.), Giteshkumar Patel (LUT Univ.), Pavel Kral (Nuclear Research Institute Rez), Tomas Nikl (Nuclear Research Institute Rez), Ivor Clifford (Paul Scherrer Institute), Richard Trewin (Framatome), Jürgen Hartung (GRS), Inés Mateos Canals (GRS), Andrej Prošek (Jožef Stefan Institute), Lukasz Sokolowski (Kiwa Technical Consulting), Piotr Mazgaj (Warsaw Univ. Technology), Maksym Vyshemirskyi (SSTC NRS)
Code Validation of SAM Using Forced and Natural-Circulation Data from NACIE-UP Benchmark
4:10–4:30PM EDT
Victor Coppo Leite (Penn State), Elia Merzari (Penn State), Adam Dix (Purdue), Ling Zou (ANL)
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Recent RELAP5-3D Developments for Water and Gas-Cooled Reactors
4:30–4:50PM EDT
George L. Mesina (INL), Robert P. Martin (BWX Technologies)
Modelling and Optimization of Free-Piston Stirling Engine Generators for Microreactor Applications Using SAGE Software
4:50–5:10PM EDT
Phat Doan (Univ. New Mexico), Minghui Chen (Univ. New Mexico)
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