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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.
Kunihiko Takeda, Hatsuki Onitsuka, Heiichiro Obanawa, Shin Saito
Nuclear Technology | Volume 81 | Number 3 | June 1988 | Pages 421-428
Technical Paper | Radioisotopes and Isotope Separation | doi.org/10.13182/NT88-A16063
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
Process energy of the chemical uranium enrichment process is discussed using the dynamic enrichment factor, avoiding a cluster of commonly used equations that correlate relevant engineering parameters. An advanced process, whose process energy was found to be much smaller than in the original process in both laboratory and bench tests, has been recently developed and applied to a pilot plant. The basic principle underlying the improvement is an inverse redox reaction induced by the increased sorbability of multicoordinated metal-complex ions onto an ion-exchange resin. The energy requirement for the advanced process will be reduced to <100 kW·h/kg·separative work unit.
