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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.
International Conference on Physics of Reactors 2022 Plenary SPeaker
KAERI
Mr. Tae-Ho Lee is a Vice President of SMART Development at the Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute (KAERI).
He has more than 24 years of experience in the fields of design and experiments for nuclear reactor.
Early in his career, he was involved in the system design of commercial power reactor and SMART.
Then, he has participated in several projects related with reactor system design and technology validation of sodium-cooled fast reactor as project manager or director for about 14 years.
He joined again the SMART projects in 2019 and currently takes overall responsibility for technology development of light-water type SMR at KAERI.
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