The U.S. Nuclear Plant Fleet Is Leaning into AI
IEEE Spectrum 6 days ago 30
U.S. nuclear reactor operators and vendors have begun integrating AI into plant operations, including a virtual assistant and document-search tools for regulatory and maintenance work. Nearly the entire fleet of 94 U.S. nuclear reactors has been offered the chance to integrate AI this year, and Atomic Canyon trained NIVA using 53 million pages of NRC data. AI adoption is shifting nuclear work toward faster knowledge retrieval and streamlined paperwork while keeping AI in a human-in-the-loop role for inspections and avoiding direct autonomous control.
