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Ho Nieh nominated to the NRC
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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.
Bo Xu, Han Li, Lei Zhang, Helin Gong
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 199 | Number 6 | June 2025 | Pages 873-887
Research Article | doi.org/10.1080/00295639.2024.2403895
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
The aging process or flow-induced vibration of reactor cores may lead to increased mechanical vibrations, affecting the reliability of in-core sensors and necessitating a robust solution for robust field reconstruction. This work tackles the challenges of reconstructing multiphysics fields from sparse and movable measurements by introducing an advanced framework that integrates various machine learning models with Voronoi tessellation. Our approach, building upon the Voronoi tessellation-assisted Convolutional Neural Network (VCNN), expands the capabilities to include a wider array of neural network architectures such as Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), Fourier Neural Operator (FNO), Dilated ResNet Encode-Process-Decode (DilResNet), Dilated Convolution Neural Operator (DCNO), Galerkin Transformer (GT), U-shaped Neural Operator (UNO), and Multiwavelet-based Operator (MWT). The effectiveness of these models is evaluated and validated through numerical tests based on the International Atomic Energy Agency benchmark, particularly noting average relative errors below 5% and 10% in the norm and norm, respectively, within a 5-cm amplitude around sensor nominal locations. The developed software toolkit encapsulates these architectures, providing a versatile option for nuclear engineers to reconstruct different types of physical fields efficiently.