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Ho Nieh, TVA board members, and nuclear fuel recycling bill head to Senate floor
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Ho Nieh, the Trump administration’s nominee to be a member of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, and four new board members of the Tennessee Valley Authority were approved in a vote today by the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee and head to the Senate floor for a final vote.
The committee also voted to advance to the Senate floor the Nuclear REFUEL Act of 2025 (S. 2082), which would smooth the regulatory pathway for recycling used nuclear fuel.
President Donald nominated Nieh on July 30 to serve as NRC commissioner for the remainder of a term set to expire June 30, 2029, which was held by former NRC commissioner Chris Hanson, who Trump fired in June.
Albrecht Herrmann, Otto Gruber
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 44 | Number 3 | November 2003 | Pages 569-577
Technical Paper | ASDEX Upgrade | doi.org/10.13182/FST03-A399
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
This special issue of Fusion Science and Technology is a comprehensive review of the main physical and technological results achieved with the Axial Symmetric Divertor EXperiment (ASDEX) Upgrade located at the Max-Planck-Institut für Plasmaphysik in Garching, Germany. It includes special chapters presenting details of machine operation and control as well as results from the main topics of scientific investigations. This introductory chapter gives a survey of the aims of ASDEX Upgrade and the evolution of the scientific goals, which were accompanied by technical modifications during the more than 10 yr of operation. It presents a short overview on hardware modifications and on the scientific program. This chapter is also a summary of major scientific results, which are then described in more detail in the following chapters.
