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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.
Decommissioning Environmental Science and Remote Technology 2021 Speaker
1987 Joined Tokyo Electric Power Company Inc.
1990 Nuclear Power Technology Group, Nuclear Power Generation Dept., TEPCO Head Office
1998 TEPCO Washington D.C. Office
2004 Group Manager, Nuclear Reactor Safety Group, Nuclear Power Technology, Safety and Quality Dept., TEPCO Head Office
2007 Licensed Senior Engineer of Reactor Safety, Fukushima Daiichi NPS
2009 General Manager, Maintenance Dept., Kashiwazaki-Kariwa NPS
2012 Group Manager, Nuclear Security ＆Industrial Safety Management Group, Nuclear Power Plant Management Dept., TEPCO Head Office
2016 Deputy Superintendent of Fukushima Daiichi NPS, FDEC
2018 Temporarily assigned to Nuclear Damage Compensation and Decommissioning Facilitation Corporation (NDF)
2020 Superintendent, Safety and Quality Office, FDEC
2021 Current Position
Tatsuya Taminami is Executive Vice President of Fukushima Daiichi Decontamination and Decommissioning Engineering Company (FDEC).
He joined Tokyo Electric Power Company, Inc. in 1987 and he has long experience in the reactor safety assessment area, as well as in emergency preparedness and nuclear security.
Since 2020, when he was Superintendent of the Safety and Quality Office in FDEC, he has been responsible for maintaining and improving safety and quality in decommissioning work at Fukushima Daiichi.
His mission now is to reduce risk at Fukushima Daiichi steadily by proceeding with many projects in a safe and timely manner.
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