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NRC nominee Nieh commits to independent safety mission
During a Senate Environment and Public Works Committee hearing today, Ho Nieh, President Donald Trump’s nominee to serve as a commissioner at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, was urged to maintain the agency’s independence regardless of political pressure from the Trump administration.
D. A. Petti, B. J. Merrill
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 47 | Number 4 | May 2005 | Pages 967-973
Technical Paper | Fusion Energy - Tritium, Safety, and Environment | doi.org/10.13182/FST05-A813
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With the US re-entering the ITER project, the US safety program has been tasked to address safety issues left unresolved during the US absence over the past five years. As a consequence our current and future US ITER safety studies will focus on validating US safety analysis tools that underpin the ITER safety analysis, refining in-vessel dust and tritium inventory safety limits and developing corresponding dust and tritium removal strategies that will demonstrate compliance with ITER limits without hampering operational flexibility of the machine.