{"id":236146,"date":"2026-04-27T06:37:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T10:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/27\/building-artificial-intelligence-tools-that-speak-nuclear\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T06:40:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T10:40:09","slug":"building-artificial-intelligence-tools-that-speak-nuclear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/27\/building-artificial-intelligence-tools-that-speak-nuclear\/","title":{"rendered":"Building Artificial Intelligence Tools That Speak Nuclear"},"content":{"rendered":"

Building Artificial Intelligence Tools That Speak Nuclear<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/annabroughel\/2026\/04\/27\/building-ai-that-speaks-nuclear\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Publish Date: 2026-04-27 06:37:00<\/a><\/p>\n

Source Domain: www.forbes.com<\/a><\/p>\n

AI is driving demand for nuclear energy while also helping to unlock the tools to build it faster.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The authoritative IPCC report makes it abundantly clear that we need nuclear power if we want to keep temperatures within the 2-degree limit, while also building data centers, electrifying everything, and lifting over 8 billion people into energy abundance.<\/p>\n

Despite this urgency, nuclear reactors cost billions of dollars to build in the U.S., yet the global experience has shown that it is indeed possible to complete six to eight reactors per year at a much lower cost. \u201cOther countries are already doing this,\u201d said Kevin Kong, founder and CEO of Everstar. \u201cWe don\u2019t need to break any laws of physics to do the same.\u201d Instead, we need to focus on the four steps: standardize reactor designs, build in series, develop an integrated domestic supply chain and train the workforce, and align the regulatory environment to support volume while maintaining safety.<\/p>\n

This approach worked in France, South Korea, Japan, and China. It even worked in the United States decades ago. Reintroducing it would not require reinventing nuclear technology, but rather restoring the system that allows it to scale. Pre-licensed domestic designs already exist, ranging from larger power plants like Westinghouse to smaller modular reactors from NuScale. What is missing is a consistent demand signal and large order books that enable serial construction. After all, building the first nuclear reactor in decades is likely to be expensive. Once experience accumulates, successive power plants can be built faster and at lower cost. Yet each nuclear project still confronts a maze of regulations and deeply manual workflows, with key information trapped in decades-old documents and filing systems.<\/p>\n

The nuclear industry has a new and unusual ally: artificial intelligence (AI), which is capable of moving hardware at the speed of software. \u201cNuclear physics works, and the industry\u2019s safety record is…<\/p>\n

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