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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|Detection and Analysis
Wednesday, September 11, 2024|3:00–3:50PM EDT|Colonial Ballroom
Session Chair:
Marisa J. Monreal
Alternate Chair:
Kiel S. Holliday
Session Organizer:
Jason R. Jeffries
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Identifying Chemical Signatures of Plutonium Oxide Particles for Nuclear Forensics Using Synchrotron X-Rays
3:00–3:30PM EDT
Alexander Baker (LLNL), Rachel Lim (LLNL), Alexander Ditter (Berkeley Lab), Scott Donald (LLNL), David Shuh (Berkeley Lab), Brandon Chung (LLNL)
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Spectroscopic Interrogation of NpO2 and PuO2 Synthesized from Discrete Molecular Precursors
3:30–3:50PM EDT
S. Olivia Gunther (Berkeley Lab), Trevor Arino (Berkeley Lab), Appie Peterson (Berkeley Lab), Joshua J. Woods (Berkeley Lab), Jefferey R. McLachaln (Berkeley Lab), Luis Aguirre Quintana (Berkeley Lab), Jennifer N. Wacker (Berkeley Lab), David K. Shuh (Berkeley Lab), Rebecca Abergel (Berkeley Lab)
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