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Senate committee advances NRC nominee Matthew Marzano
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The U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee voted 10–9 last week to advance the nomination of Matthew Marzano to serve on the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. It was a party-line vote, with all Democrats supporting Marzano and all Republicans voting “no.”
Marzano was nominated by President Biden in July to fill the open NRC seat, and the EPW Committee held a hearing in September on his nomination. His nomination will now go to the Senate for a vote, but it is not certain whether that will happen before the end of the year, in which case his nomination process would start over in 2025.
The five-member commission has been without a tiebreaker vote since June 2023 when Jeff Baran’s term expired.
M. Emoto, M. Yoshida, H. Nakanishi, T. Yamamoto, T. Watanabe, K. Watanabe, M. Shoji, Y. Nagayama, LHD Experiment Group
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 58 | Number 1 | July-August 2010 | Pages 458-464
Chapter 8. Diagnostics | Special Issue on Large Helical Device (LHD) | doi.org/10.13182/FST10-A10831
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
Large Helical Device (LHD) experiments are executed with the collaboration of many universities in Japan. Therefore, remote participation plays an important role. In this paper, the authors introduce the current remote participation facilities for these experiments. National Institute for Fusion Science (NIFS) remote participation facilities fall into three categories. The first, remote access, allows direct access to the experimental network. This is the most flexible way to use computer resources remotely. For this purpose, virtual private network (VPN) service is available for coresearchers. In addition, several laboratories are connected directly via SINET3. Once researchers connect to the network, they can use the computer as if they are at the NIFS. The next is remote data reference. Users can view experimental data in a Web browser. Also, they can use a browser to retrieve basic information about experiments that is stored in a relational database. The last is video services. Remote researchers can use a videoconference system to communicate with researchers at the NIFS, and they can use Web browsers to watch the main monitor image displayed in the control room. For security reasons, the entire network is protected by a firewall, and one-time password authentication is used to realize secure VPN access.