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Companies that go deep into AI fall in love with nuclear power for their promise of 24/7 electricity. Yuan,,,,, Googleand Microsoft All have deals with startups or reactor operators. But will the nuclear industry like AI?

Yes, there are warnings.

No one suggested letting AI run reactors, but the power companies are increasingly interested in the technology tightening business aspects, Bradley Fox, co-founder and CEO Bradley Fox nucleartell TechCrunch.

Fox and Jerrold Vincent began using nuclear energy to harness this benefit. The company said its AI tools have been used in more than 65 nuclear reactors worldwide.

Recently, it raised $10.5 million in Series A funding led by Blue Bear Capital and participated from AZ-VC, NuteCleation Capital and SJF Ventures.

Nuclear energy began when the founder worked at the Palo Verde nuclear power plant west of Phoenix. They have been trying to use more advanced AI models to simplify various repetitive tasks from a data science perspective.

Fox said soon, other reactors noticed. “Can you help us do the same for Palo Verde, but will my plants do the same?” they asked him.

This interest is consistent with the common pandemic. “We were both bored after get off work,” Fox said. “We were like, hey, let’s work on a startup.”

Nuclear energy has developed models that are trained in specific terms in the nuclear industry. The startup can train custom models for utilities and power providers that request it, and when its software runs in the cloud, it can also help the reactor set up hardware on the website as its security protocol requires.

The startup’s software can generate regular documents before performing reactor employees, then log in and log in.

“Now, most AI in the industry, [Nuclear Regulatory Commission] Think of it as a tool. “It’s the same as if you’re going to use Excel or Mathematica or some type of engineering software,” Fox said.

The reactor operator can set thresholds based on the level of comfort and confidence in the model’s ability to solve problems.

“If the model doesn’t know, or we’re not sure, it sends it back to the right person and double checks based on the settings you choose,” Fox said. “We tell the client, ‘Think of it as a junior employee.’”