US-based technology company Blue Wave AI Labs has successfully deployed machine learning (ML) tools at two nuclear power plants operated by Constellation, potentially saving the company millions of dollars per reactor each year, the US Department of Energy said.
The project was part of a $6m (€5.5m) effort supported by the DOE to help lower the operating costs of nuclear power plants using the latest artificial intelligence (AI) and ML technologies.
Two US national laboratories — Argonne and Brookhaven — contributed to the project.
Blue Wave projects that the new software could save up to $80m per year once the tools are expanded to the nation’s fleet of 32 boiling water reactors (BWR).