Nuclear Power. Chapter 10

In broad terms, the main opportunities for AI to achieve a positive impact on the nuclear power industry can be grouped in the areas listed below. In all of these, AI offers the capability of leveraging massive amounts of complex data in ways that were previously impossible to do by humans or with more traditional techniques. In addition, AI enables the capture, codification and retention of human expertise to support robust, repeatable and explicable machine-led decisions. For each group, a brief description of the topical area with generic application examples is given, followed by more specific examples. These are most definitely not exhaustive, as there are many other applications under each topic; rather, they are provided to help solidify the main idea behind each topic and provide concrete examples of the types of work and benefits they can entail.