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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.
Katsumi Hayashi, Hideo Hirayama, Kohei Iwanaga, Kenjiro Kondo, Seishiro Suzuki
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 198 | Number 2 | February 2024 | Pages 207-227
Research Article | doi.org/10.1080/00295639.2023.2204974
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The pinhole gamma camera is a simple and useful device for determining the radiation distribution in a certain region. Using this device, we developed a method to measure the distribution of 137Cs contamination density on surfaces using the total energy absorption peak count rate of gamma rays, where each camera pixel was projected onto the surface to determine the corresponding measured area and distance to the surface. We applied this method to measure the 137Cs contamination density of the wall, ceiling, and floor of the Unit 2 Operation Floor at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station in 2020 and 2022 and compared the results obtained in 2020 to those of a robot-operated, conventional, high-dose-area smear test. We found a pinhole gamma camera with the proposed method is useful for obtaining contamination density distribution results quickly, without the complexities of using a robot.