The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee was set Wednesday morning to vote on Christopher Hanson’s nomination to serve five more years on the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
The committee of jurisdiction for the civilian nuclear regulator was to gavel in at 9:45 a.m. Eastern time at the Dirksen Senate Office Building in Washington, according to a notice posted online.
Hanson’s term runs through June 29. If the committee approves his nomination on Wednesday and the full Senate approves it later, he will remain at the NRC through June 29, 2029. If Hanson is not reconfirmed by the Senate, the NRC will drop to three members, with a 2-1 Republican majority.
Hanson has chaired the NRC since 2021 and joined the commission in 2020. In a renomination hearing on April 17, Sen. Tom Carper (D-Del.), the committee chair, supported Hanson’s renomination.
Ranking member Sen. Shelley Capito (R-W.Va.), who gave Hanson a grilling at the hearing, has not said how she might vote in Wednesday’s scheduled meeting, though she told Politico last week that she heard no red flags in Hanson’s testimony.
