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Ho Nieh nominated to the NRC
Nieh
President Trump recently nominated Ho Nieh for the role of commissioner in the Nuclear Regulatory Commission through the remainder of a term that will expire June 30, 2029.
Nieh has been the vice president of regulatory affairs at Southern Nuclear since 2021, though he is currently working as a loaned executive at the Institute of Nuclear Power Operations, where he has been for more than a year.
Nieh’s experience: Nieh started his career at the Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory, where he worked primarily as a nuclear plant engineer and contributed as a civilian instructor in the U.S. Navy’s Nuclear Power Program.
From there, he joined the NRC in 1997 as a project engineer. In more than 19 years of service at the organization, he served in a variety of key leadership roles, including division director of Reactor Projects, division director of Inspection and Regional Support, and director of the Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
O. A. Wasson, R. A. Schrack, G. P. Lamaze
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 68 | Number 2 | November 1978 | Pages 170-182
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE78-A27287
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
The common features used in the measurement 6Li(n,α), 10B(n,αγ), and 235U(n,f) cross sections presented in three subsequent papers are described. The experiments were performed on the 200-m flight path of the National Bureau of Standards Linac and cover the neutron energy region from 5 to 800 keV. The neutron flux monitor was a hydrogen-filled gas proportional counter located at the end of the flight path, while the primary detectors specific to each of the three cross-section measurements were placed 70 m along the flight path. The properties of the neutron source, the detailed operation of the flux monitor, the data acquisition system, and the data analysis procedure are described. The systematic errors in the neutron flux measurement are given.
