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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.
Qian Zhang, Liang Liang, Qiang Zhao, Zhijian Zhang, Hongchun Wu, Liangzhi Cao
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 194 | Number 3 | March 2020 | Pages 232-247
Technical Note | doi.org/10.1080/00295639.2019.1664146
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
The Embedded Self-Shielding Method (ESSM) coupled with the heterogeneous Resonance Integral tables and the Enhanced Neutron Current Method (ENCM) with equivalent Dancoff factor are reviewed and reformulated to a unified framework by incorporating the ultra-fine-group slowing-down calculation on two-dimensional square pin cell problems. The comparison between the two approaches on the resonance self-shielding calculation of irregular fuel lattices shows that the reformulated ESSM approach will bring errors to the cross-section prediction of fuel pins in the irregular lattice, especially when the moderator density is low. Also, the reformulated ENCM approach is more stable for different configurations. Further numerical tests show that the scalar flux calculated by the ESSM approach is affected by the global neutron balance across the fuel lattice and ESSM is more sensitive to the error brought by the enforced equivalence.