Court Rich,Rose Law Group’s director of renewable energy & utility infrastructure, tells RLGR:
“Permitting and the time it takes to achieve technology approval are the biggest of many hurdles facing the resurgence of the nuclear energy industry. Projects like this will help cut down permitting time, while also making future projects safer and more reliable. It appears more and more like nuclear is going to play a major role in the future of energy in the United States. I expect more innovations in the months and years to come. In the meantime, we will still need to build a tremendous amount of energy infrastructure before new nuclear is readily available to potentially save the day.”
By Stephen Nellis | REUTERS
Microsoft and a U.S. national laboratory on Wednesday said they are partnering to examine how artificial intelligence could be used to speed up the process of compiling the documents needed to secure permits for new nuclear power plants.
Microsoft and the Idaho National Laboratory (INL) said they will tap Microsoft’s AI technology for generating engineering and safety analysis reports that are a standard part of the application process for construction permits and operating licenses for nuclear facilities in the United States. The AI systems, which have been trained on a huge trove of successful historical applications, will pull data from studies and compile it into complex applications that span hundreds of pages.
“It’s created for human refinement, so a human can go through each of the sections and, specifically as needed, edit any of the sections, whether manually, or maybe with the help of AI – it’s really up to the human,” Nelli Babayan, AI director for federal civilian business at Microsoft, told Reuters in an interview.
