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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.
The American Nuclear Society's Fusion Energy Division has two awards that are given at each TOFE conference, the Outstanding Achievement Award and the Technical Accomplishment Award. The nomination cycle for 2024 is now open and we are accepting nomination packages for each of these awards through June 24, 2024. As a high level overview, the difference between the two awards is that the Outstanding Achievement Award is intended for someone with a continued history of accomplishments in fusion science and engineering over many years, whereas the Technical Accomplishment Award is intended for one particular accomplishment in fusion no matter how long the person has been working in the fusion field. Each of these awards has specific requirements for what to submit, how to submit, and the criteria for the award decisions, which can be found at the below two links. The full list of ANS awards, including the two FED awards, can be found here: https://www.ans.org/honors/ .
Outstanding Achievement Award criteria and submission details:
https://www.ans.org/honors/award-fedachievement/
Technical Accomplishment Award criteria and submission details:
https://www.ans.org/honors/award-fedtechnical/
Additional questions that cannot be addressed by the information on the award webpages should be sent to the FED Awards Committee Chair, Jake Blanchard at jake.blanchard@wisc.edu.
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