SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif.,
May 15, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Today,
Atomic Canyon, a pioneer of AI nuclear search, announced a new
project with the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National
Laboratory (ORNL), home of the Frontier supercomputer, to build a
safe, efficient open-source AI model for the nuclear sector. Atomic
Canyon will use Frontier – the world's fastest supercomputer – to
train the company's AI model to understand complex nuclear
terminology. Their collaboration with ORNL is a significant
milestone, marking the development of the first AI model tailored
for nuclear data and content.
Harnessing the power of Frontier, Atomic Canyon aims to
open-source nuclear sector terminologies, helping to develop a
nuclear AI infrastructure to build upon and to provide a powerful
tool for efficient data navigation, document indexing, performance
improvement and cost savings.
This advanced technology, developed by Atomic Canyon and trained
on millions of publicly available documents from the U.S. Nuclear
Regulatory Commission's Agency-wide Documents Access and Management
System (ADAMS), will utilize sentence-embedding models. These
algorithms convert written sentences into numerical representations
to allow AI to grasp nuclear terminology and accurately discern
information. This deeper understanding makes the AI more effective
and helps prevent AI "hallucinations" and biases during search and
data analysis. Atomic Canyon's technology will provide innovators
with trusted, accurate assistance in understanding the broad
spectrum of nuclear safety and security requirements. The
model will not be trained on sensitive information on the design or
operation of nuclear technologies, but will be able to assist with
analyzing a vast array of public regulatory guides, inspection
reports, and other documents, with the goal of increasing safety
and public accountability.
Frontier, the world's fastest and the first to achieve
"exascale" computing performance (a quintillion calculations per
second), will play a pivotal role in the collaboration between
Atomic Canyon and ORNL. This project promises significant benefits
for nuclear researchers, scientists, engineers, and stakeholders
worldwide. Leveraging the capacity and speed of AI, alongside the
transparency of open-source technology, the resulting platform is
poised to take on the sector's most complex challenges, driving a
revitalization of nuclear energy.
"Our leading-edge technology is tailored to the nuclear sector,"
says Trey Lauderdale, CEO and
founder of Atomic Canyon. "Collaborating with ORNL's premier
supercomputing facilities such as Frontier will help our platform
understand complex nuclear concepts, removing a major barrier to AI
implementation in the nuclear sector. Moreover, our open-source
approach will encourage transparency and collaboration among
nuclear stakeholders and innovators focused on safety and security.
Our goal is to help the world's best and brightest have the
information and technology they need to help navigate the climate
and energy crisis."
Last month, Atomic Canyon's Neutron search platform launched to
significant interest from the nuclear sector. This collaboration
represents a broader initiative to expand access and facilitate
innovation in the nuclear sector on a much larger scale.
By training their AI on nuclear terminology, Atomic Canyon will
develop a safe, accurate tool that will enable researchers around
the world to harness AI's potential for solving nuclear challenges.
This has become increasingly important, as climate change and
soaring energy demands underscore the need for a transition to more
abundant, clean energy sources.
"Open-source AI search, trained using the lab's Frontier
supercomputer, will play an essential role in the research,
engineering, and development of nuclear energy and the nuclear
sector, now and into the future," says ORNL's Thomas M. Evans, Group Lead and Distinguished
R&D Staff, HPC Methods for Nuclear Applications. "This is
crucial to advance nuclear innovation and move toward a future
powered by sustainable energy."
For more information or to see a demo of Neutron, please
visit www.atomic-canyon.com.
About Atomic Canyon
AI powers the future at Atomic Canyon. Atomic Canyon's advanced
AI platform modernizes solutions across the nuclear energy sector,
starting with Neutron—simplifying pages of documentation, enhancing
Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) data access and unlocking
workflow efficiency. Utilizing the NRC's extensive library, the AI
is a knowledgeable navigator, making data more accessible and
promoting industry knowledge-sharing.
Atomic Canyon was founded by CEO Trey
Lauderdale (previously CEO and Founder of Voalte, acquired
for $180m) and CTO and Co-Founder
Kristian Kielhofner (previously CTO
of Star 2 Star Communications, acquired for $437m). Their vision is to lead in AI-driven cost
efficiencies for the nuclear energy sector.
Atomic Canyon's AI application is designed for use in and by
nuclear power plants, manufacturers of next-generation reactors and
government and national laboratories.
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