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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.
Tien-Ko Wang, Jun Hsin, Min Lee
Nuclear Technology | Volume 91 | Number 3 | September 1990 | Pages 287-296
Technical Paper | Nuclear Safety | doi.org/10.13182/NT90-A34453
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A series of MAAP3.0 calculations was made with varying parameters to simulate a postulated large-break loss-of-coolant accident at the Kuosheng plant with a boiling water reactor-6 and MARK III containment. Analyses showed that uncertainties in the corematerial eutectic temperature and the degree of flow blockage will result in a large uncertainty in the predicted in-vessel hydrogen generation. The pressure variations caused by hydrogen burns, which are related to the preceding in- and ex-vessel hydrogen generation, may force some suppression-pool water into the pedestal cavity where most of the corium remains. This will further affect the possibility and the extent of corium/concrete interactions and thus the rate and the amount of ex-vessel hydrogen generation. Burns would occur at a very low hydrogen concentration if the compartment (gas) temperature were high and the flame temperature criteria were used for burn determination. If burns were to occur after containment failure, the hydrogen burns could have a significant impact on the release of fission product to the environment.