Artificial Intelligence in Nuclear Energy - Azure Project/ Can Projects Be Accelerated?
Project Azure generates key licensing documents for reactors. In a move that could significantly reduce the red tape faced by nuclear innovators, Idaho National Laboratory (INL) and Microsoft have teamed up to bring artificial intelligence to one of the most bureaucratically burdened corners of clean energy: nuclear licensing.
The collaboration, funded by the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Nuclear Energy through the National Reactor Innovation Center, is focused on modernizing the way developers prepare construction permits and operating license applications for nuclear power plants - an often laborious and costly process.
Using Microsoft’s Azure AI services, INL will deploy an AI-powered generation tool designed to help engineers and developers build the lengthy technical reports required by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) and the Department of Energy. These reports typically include thousands of pages of safety and engineering data, pulled together from various sources.
The Azure AI-powered solution does not make safety judgments itself, but automates the report-writing process, giving human reviewers a more efficient starting point. The tool is expected to be particularly valuable for licensing advanced reactors, which often differ in design and materials from traditional light water reactors, making standardized documentation more complex.
This isn't the first collaboration between INL and Microsoft on AI-enabled nuclear technology. In 2023, they teamed up with students at Idaho State University to build a digital twin, a virtual model of ISU's AGN-201 reactor.
Now, the partners hope that this new AI application can help remove a long-standing barrier to scaling up clean nuclear energy by simplifying the documentation required to approve and commission new reactors.
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