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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.
Krishna Chetty, Subash Sharma, John Buchanan, Martin Lopez-de-Bertodano
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 195 | Number 10 | October 2021 | Pages 1087-1097
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.1080/00295639.2021.1898920
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A new dynamic verification of the one-dimensional (1-D) computational Two-Fluid Model (TFM) using the Type II density wave instability (DWI) theory of Ishii is presented. Verification requires convergence in the sense of the Lax Equivalence Theorem and dynamic comparison with the DWI theory. Rigorous verification of the computational TFM must be performed with a computational model that is well posed without regularization because, otherwise, since the theory of Ishii is well posed, regularization would make the TFM incompatible with it.
Furthermore, since the TFM is well posed, it was possible to implement a second-order numerical method with a flux limiter that, together with a fine mesh, achieves numerical convergence. This is significant because numerical convergence and consistency, both of which are demonstrated, are prerequisites for the rigorous dynamic verification according to the Lax Equivalence Theorem. Thus, the apparent but previously unproven numerical verification of the 1-D TFM to simulate the two-phase long wave DWI instability is hereby performed.