{"id":228969,"date":"2026-03-29T14:34:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T18:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/29\/us-uses-ai-to-speed-up-nuclear-technology-licensing-applications\/"},"modified":"2026-03-29T16:30:28","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T20:30:28","slug":"us-uses-ai-to-speed-up-nuclear-technology-licensing-applications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/29\/us-uses-ai-to-speed-up-nuclear-technology-licensing-applications\/","title":{"rendered":"US uses AI to speed up nuclear technology licensing applications"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/interestingengineering.com\/energy\/us-ai-nuclear-reactor-licensing\">US uses AI to speed up nuclear technology licensing applications<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/interestingengineering.com\/energy\/us-ai-nuclear-reactor-licensing\">https:\/\/interestingengineering.com\/energy\/us-ai-nuclear-reactor-licensing<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-03-29 14:34:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"interestingengineering.com\">interestingengineering.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The United States has used AI to streamline the nuclear regulatory process.\u00a0The Department of Energy used AI mapping to convert a safety analysis document required under DOE\u2019s authorization pathway for advanced reactor demonstrations into U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) licensing documents for commercial deployment.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The DOE revealed that this accomplishment shows the role AI can play in improving the efficiency and accuracy of nuclear technology licensing, and could one day help to accelerate timelines for the commercial deployment of advanced nuclear reactors.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-ai-accelerated-nuclear-energy-deployment\">AI-accelerated nuclear energy deployment<\/h2>\n<p>\u201cNow is the time to move boldly on AI-accelerated nuclear energy deployment,\u201d said Rian Bahran, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Nuclear Reactors. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis partnership, combined with the President\u2019s orders, represents more than incremental \u2018uplift\u2019 improvements. It has the potential to transform how industry prepares its regulatory submissions and deploys nuclear energy while upholding the highest standards of safety and compliance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Everstar\u2019s Gordian AI solution, built on the Microsoft Azure platform, was recently used to convert the Preliminary Documented Safety Analysis for DOE\u2019s National Reactor Innovation Center\u2019s (NRIC) Generic High Temperature Gas Reactor (HTGR) into sections equivalent to an NRC license application, according to a press release.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-nuclear-grade-technical-work\">Nuclear-grade technical work<\/h2>\n<p>The DOE revealed that the final 208-page document took one day to generate. Typically, the process takes a team of people between four and six weeks to complete the same task. The AI tool also comprehensively identified missing or incomplete information needed to successfully complete an NRC application.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Gordian was engineered for nuclear-grade technical work and is equipped with physics and engineering tools, as well as the ability to understand and integrate data through semantic ontology mapping, to ensure that the final output is computed and&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/interestingengineering.com\/energy\/us-ai-nuclear-reactor-licensing\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US uses AI to speed up nuclear technology licensing applications https:\/\/interestingengineering.com\/energy\/us-ai-nuclear-reactor-licensing Publish Date: 2026-03-29 14:34:00&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":228970,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cms.interestingengineering.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/AI-tool.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[64,62,65],"class_list":["post-228969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-energy","tag-innovation","tag-nuclear"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228969"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228969"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":228971,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228969\/revisions\/228971"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}