Artificial intelligence penetrates the heart of nuclear power plants

American Startup Atomic Canyon By attracting $ 5 million in initial capital and cooperating with the nuclear power plant Diablo CanyonHe has begun his mission to solve the problem of the nuclear energy industry using artificial intelligence. The startup, with the aim of helping engineers, repair technicians and adaptation experts, has designed an advanced search system for quick access to documents.

The founder of the company, Terry Laddarde, formerly an entrepreneur in the field of health, found out that the nuclear industry was immersed in billions of pages after getting acquainted with the power plant staff near its home in California. According to him, only at the power plant Diablo Canyon There are about two billion pages of the archive document. This made him think of using artificial intelligence models to search for these documents; A model based on “Recovery reinforced production” (RAG).

Atomic Canyon At first it faced technical challenges, and artificial intelligence models were not accurate because nuclear terms were unfamiliar to them. But after consulting with the National Laboratory of Ok Ridge, the research center decided to provide the team with 6,000 hours of GPU to optimize their model. Now, their ultimate goal is to produce automatic draft documents with accurate resources with the presence of human resources in the review cycle.