Idaho National Laboratory to Use Artificial Intelligence to Accelerate Deployment of Advanced Nuclear Reactors
The Idaho National Laboratory (INL) and NVIDIA have partnered to advance nuclear energy deployment through artificial intelligence.
The collaboration is part of the Genesis Mission (USA program) which envisages the creation of scientific platform to accelerate discovery science, strengthen national security and drive energy innovation.
The collaboration will focus on several strategic initiatives:
- AI-powered nuclear design, licensing, manufacturing, construction, and operation: Developing generative AI, digital twins, and agentic workflows to accelerate nuclear energy deployment.
- Industry advancement: Supporting broader nuclear industry adoption of accelerated computing and AI tools while providing guidance to regulatory entities on state-of-the-art autonomous and digital nuclear capabilities;
- Supercomputing infrastructure: Leveraging Department of Energy leadership-class supercomputers for large-scale model training and simulation while evaluating on-premises NVIDIA AI systems for real-time operations.
- Data validation: Using INL’s legacy nuclear data, laboratory data, and on-site reactors — including the Neutron Radiography Reactor, or NRAD, and the Microreactor Applications Research Validation and Evaluation, or MARVEL (not yet operational) — to provide real-world data for digital twin validation.
- Code acceleration: Accelerating codes including MOOSE, BISON, Griffin, and Pronghorn on NVIDIA GPU architectures to unlock unprecedented simulation capabilities.
The collaboration is aimed at creating closed cycle in which AI enables rapid nuclear power deployment and nuclear power provides the basic capacity for next-generation AI infrastructure.Based on Idaho National Laboratory data
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