Category: Industry News – Nuclear

🔦Blue Wave AI Labs Employee Spotlight: Rizki Oktavian, AI Engineer

We’d like to give a huge shoutout 📣 to Rizki Oktavian, our talented AI engineer and reactor physicist! He’s only been with us for just over a year, and already his forward-thinking approach and expertise in machine learning and reactor physics have been a game 👏 changer 👏 in developing an innovative AI-assisted reactor core…
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UWC 2024 Panel: Nuclear Applications for Artificial Intelligence

Do you want to save time ⏳ researching and writing 10 CFR 50.59 screens? Then you should attend the session on AI in Nuclear where Blue Wave’s SVP Product Line Management, Antti Kankkunen, will be presenting at the ANS Utility Working Conference in Marco Island, Florida 🌴 on Monday, August 5 at 9:30 am EDT.…
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Utility Working Conference and Vendor Technology Expo 2024

Does anyone want a free stainless steel Stanley Thermos❓ Be the first one to say “Minimize the Mundane” to Jonathan Nistor or Michael Brasel at the Utility Working Conference and Vendor Technology Expo to claim your prize! 🏆 Blue Wave is the leader in nuclear AI implementation being the first to develop real world AI…
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How to Reopen a Nuclear Power Plant

Palisades Power Plant in Michigan could be the first shut-down nuclear plant to restart operations. By Casey Crownhart MIT Technology Review April 3, 2024 A shut-down nuclear power plant in Michigan could get a second life thanks to a $1.52 billion loan from the US Department of Energy. If successful, it will be the first time…
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Second New Reactor at Plant Vogtle Reaches 100% Power

(L-R) Views of Units 3 and 4 at Plant Vogtle, in Burke County near Waynesboro, Georgia on Monday, July 31, 2023. (Arvin Temkar / [email protected]) The long-delayed and over-budget nuclear unit is expected to enter service between April and June 4/2/2024 By Drew Kann The Atlanta Journal Constitution The second new nuclear reactor at Plant…
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New AI Tools Could Save Constellation Reactor Fleet Millions

Peach Bottom Atomic Power Station | Courtesy of Constellation Energy Office of Nuclear Energy March 26, 2024 Blue Wave AI Labs successfully deployed machine learning (ML) tools at two nuclear power plants operated by Constellation, saving the company millions of dollars per reactor each year.  The project was part of a $6 million effort supported by the U.S. Department…
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Blue Wave AI Labs and Constellation expand strategic agreement with Long-Term Adoption of ThermalLimits.ai

Supporting Nuclear Reliability and Cost Effectiveness FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE West Lafayette, IN – March 26, 2024 Blue Wave AI Labs, the leader in AI-based nuclear technology solutions, is delighted to announce that Constellation, the nation’s largest producer of carbon-free energy, is expanding its strategic collaboration by integrating ThermalLimits.ai across its fleet of boiling water reactors…
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AWS Acquiring Data Center Campus Powered by Nuclear Energy

The Susquehanna nuclear power plant in Pennsylvania has operated since 1983. Source: U.S. government Darrell Proctor March 4, 2024 Talen Energy Corp. said the company has sold its Cumulus data center campus, located near a Pennsylvania nuclear power station that provides the site with its power, to Amazon Web Services (AWS), according to a Talen…
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Bruce Power’s Unit 3 marks 45 years of operation; Final preparations underway for Major Component Replacement outage

Workers gather in the Unit 3 turbine hall to celebrate 45 years of the unit’s operation and one month until the beginning of its Major Component Replacement (MCR) outage. Bruce Power February 1, 2023 Bruce Power’s Unit 3 marked 45 years of commercial operation on Feb. 1, with the Bruce A unit beginning its lengthy…
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