DOE’s Oak Ridge National Lab is teaming up with AI startup Atomic Canyon to streamline nuclear plant licensing with machine learning, tapping 50M+ pages of NRC documents to train the model. (Axios)
Big picture: The Trump administration has zeroed in on speeding up nuclear deployments. This partnership could help the industry comply with President Trump’s new executive order giving the NRC 18 months to reach final decisions on applications to build and operate new reactors.