Supplier Showcase: Nuclearn talks equipment AI. The American Nuclear Society recently hosted a Supplier Showcase webinar, "From Alarm to Answer: How AI Can Reduce Equipment Load and Enhance Performance," in partnership with Nuclearn, a provider of AI tools built for the nuclear industry. A brief overview: The webinar was led by three executives from Nuclearn: Brian Critchfield, vice president of marketing; Lorzeno Slay, vice president of product; and Phil Zeringue, chief revenue officer. Critchfield, who moderated the discussion, started things off by giving the big-picture context on the gap Nuclearn is working to fill. "Most plants today have some form of anomaly detection," he explained, which watches equipment and tries to predict when something might fail. While these systems are valuable, they are also fundamentally limited. As Critchfield put it, when an alarm fires, the real work of figuring out the exact cause of that firing begins. "Very few plants have a solution for diagnosing that alarm without pulling engineers away from priorities for hours or days." This gap was the focus of Nuclearn's discussion - an exploration of how its AI tools can compress that diagnostic work from days into minutes, along with a look at how AI fits into equipment monitoring. This discussion was complemented with a hands-on walkthrough of the company's new "Equipment AI" tool. Go deeper: To hear Zeringue and Slay discuss the technical details of Nuclearn's Equipment AI, watch the full webinar on the ANS YouTube channel. The Supplier Showcase opportunity: Companies in the nuclear space are welcome to collaborate with ANS on a Supplier Showcase webinar. Each hourlong presentation given as part of the ongoing series is an opportunity to inform the nuclear community about your company's technologies or services. The full catalog of Supplier Showcases is archived on the ANS Webinars page.

NuScale Power (NYSE: SMR) cuts engineering research time by 80% with nuclear-specific AI partnership. NuScale Power Corporation (NYSE: SMR) has announced a major deployment of nuclear-specific artificial intelligence tools designed to accelerate its small modular reactor development program. The initiative brings together NuScale's advanced reactor expertise, Nuclearn's AtomAssist nuclear AI platform, and NPX's nuclear project and AI implementation experience to create purpose-built tools for engineering and knowledge management. An initial proof of concept demonstrated that nuclear-specific AI terminology and workflows could reduce the time required to find relevant information by as much as 80%. The technology is designed to surface the most relevant engineering methods and standards while maintaining full traceability to original controlled source documents. As advanced reactor projects move from design into deployment, timely and informed decision-making across growing volumes of engineering data, licensing evidence, and technical standards becomes critical to maintaining program schedules. Dr. José Reyes, Chief Technology Officer of NuScale Power, emphasized the importance of speed and precision at this stage of the company's development: "This partnership with Nuclearn and NPX will equip our teams with the right purpose-built AI tools, grounded in our extensive proprietary knowledge, to work more efficiently while maintaining the highest safety and quality standards." Jerrold Vincent, CFO and Co-Founder of Nuclearn, highlighted the unique demands of deploying AI in a safety-critical, heavily regulated environment like nuclear energy. "By combining nuclear-specific language models with NuScale's trusted engineering and licensing content, we're helping NuScale maintain complete traceability back to the original controlled source, enabling the team to move faster without reducing safety, quality, or regulatory compliance," Vincent said. Joshua Bell, Director of NPX US, framed the initiative as a model for the broader global nuclear industry facing pressure to accelerate project timelines without sacrificing quality or regulatory discipline. "This is not AI for AI's sake," Bell said. "It is nuclear professionals working together to solve nuclear challenges using new technology, grounded in deep experience and the discipline our industry requires." NuScale, founded in 2007, holds the distinction of being the first and only SMR developer to have its designs certified by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, positioning it to serve utilities, data centers, desalination projects, and hydrogen production facilities worldwide. The company's NuScale Power Module can generate 77 megawatts of electricity per unit and can be configured in arrays of up to 12 modules, providing a maximum output of 924 megawatts to meet varying customer needs. NPX operates across Canada, the United States, and international markets, combining nuclear project management expertise with AI and digital implementation to help organizations accelerate complex nuclear initiatives. Nuclearn, founded by nuclear industry veterans, delivers secure, on-premise-ready AI solutions built specifically for nuclear professionals managing document-intensive workflows under strict regulatory requirements.