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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.
E. Robert Gilbert, Wendell J. Bailey, A. Burtron Johnson, Jr., Mikal A. McKinnon
Nuclear Technology | Volume 89 | Number 2 | February 1990 | Pages 141-161
Technical Paper | Fuel Cycle | doi.org/10.13182/NT90-A34342
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
By 2003, the year the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) currently predicts that a repository will be available, 58 U.S. commercial nuclear power plant units are expected to run out of wet storage space for light water reactor (LWR) spent fuel. To alleviate this problem, utilities have implemented advanced storage methods that have increased storage capacity as well as reduced the rate of spent-fuel generation. These methods include (a) transshipping spent-fuel assemblies between pools within the same utility system, (b) reracking pools to accommodate additional spent-fuel assemblies, (c) taking credit for fuel burnup in pool storage rack designs, (d) extending fuel burnup, (e) rod consolidation, and (f) dry storage, Wet storage continues to be the predominant U.S. spent-fuel management technology, but as a measure to enhance at-reactor storage capacity, the Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982 authorized DOE to assist utilities with licensing at-reactor dry storage. Information exchanges with other nations, laboratory testing and modeling, and cask tests cooperatively funded by U.S. utilities and DOE produced a strong technical basis for confidence that LWR spent fuel can be stored safely for several decades in both wet and dry storage. Licensed dry storage of spent fuel in an inert atmosphere was first achieved in the United States in 1986. Studies are under way in several countries to determine acceptable conditions for storing LWR spent fuel in air. Rod consolidation technology is being developed and demonstrated to enhance the storage capacity for both wet and dry storage. Large-scale commercial implementation is awaiting optimization of practical and economical mechanical systems.
