Microsoft, US national lab tap AI to speed up nuclear power permitting process

Microsoft and a U.S. national laboratory on Wednesday said they are partnering to examine how artificial intelligence could be used to speed up the process of compiling the documents needed to secure permits for new nuclear power plants.

“It’s created for human refinement, so a human can go through each of the sections and, specifically as needed, edit any of the sections, whether manually, or maybe with the help of AI – it’s really up to the human,” Nelli Babayan, AI director for federal civilian business at Microsoft, told Reuters in an interview.

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