The AI platform built for every nuclear plant in North America.
NIVA, the Nuclear Industry Virtual Assistant, brings decades of nuclear knowledge into a single AI-powered platform for the North American commercial nuclear fleet. Developed by Atomic Canyon in collaboration with INPO, EPRI, and NEI, it is now moving from pilot to fleetwide availability.
Decades of knowledge. No single place to find it.
The North American nuclear industry runs on hard-won operating experience: millions of records spanning equipment failures, regulatory guidance, technical standards, and lessons learned from decades of safe operation. But that knowledge is scattered across siloed systems: INPO's operating experience, EPRI's technical library, NEI's regulatory guidance, and NRC publications. None of them were designed to work together.
When plant staff need to respond to an equipment issue, prepare for an outage, or evaluate a design change, the research process is manual, time-consuming, and fragmented. They search one system, then another, then a third, piecing together information from documents that were never meant to be read side by side.
NIVA changes that.
One platform. The industry's collective knowledge. AI that understands nuclear.
NIVA, the Nuclear Industry Virtual Assistant, is an AI-powered platform developed by Atomic Canyon in collaboration with INPO, EPRI, and NEI. It is the first artificial intelligence platform of its kind accessible to the commercial nuclear plants that are members of these organizations, helping nuclear professionals find, synthesize, and apply knowledge across complex technical, regulatory, and operational workflows.
Every answer comes back grounded in industry content, with inline citations that link straight to the source records, so nuclear professionals can trust what they read and verify it in seconds. NIVA moves AI in nuclear from pilot validation into scaled, operational use across the fleet.
What NIVA Does
Nuclear professionals deal with a handful of common, high-stakes workflows every day. NIVA's initial capabilities focus on three areas, with new modules and datasets planned as the platform evolves.
Knowledge Assistant
Ask questions in plain language and get responses grounded in industry content, spanning NRC Reg Guides and NUREGs, NEI guidance, INPO standards, and EPRI technical reports. Less time spent searching, faster and better-informed decisions.
Operating Experience Assistant
Surfaces relevant operating experience by analyzing meaning and context, not just keywords, then lets you chat directly with the results to ask follow-up questions and dig deeper into what you find.
Troubleshooting
Will guide nuclear professionals through technical questions using vetted information, supporting timely and informed responses to real-time equipment and operational issues.
Built for Nuclear, Inside and Out
Every design decision behind NIVA, the Nuclear Industry Virtual Assistant, reflects the specific requirements of nuclear work.
Powered by FERMI
NIVA is model-agnostic and powered by Atomic Canyon's FERMI, a family of nuclear domain-specific sentence embedding models developed with Oak Ridge National Laboratory on the Frontier exascale supercomputer. FERMI understands nuclear terminology, acronyms, and context in ways general-purpose AI models don't.
Purpose-Built for Nuclear
NIVA is built specifically to understand the language, workflows, and knowledge environments of nuclear power. Unlike general-purpose AI tools, it is designed for the unique demands of highly regulated, high-consequence work, where trust, precision, and domain relevance are essential.
Grounded & Cited
Responses are grounded in industry content with inline citations that link directly to the source records. Nuclear professionals can validate every answer against the original document with their own eyes. No black boxes.
From pilot to fleetwide.
NIVA's two core assistants were piloted across the industry over six months before moving to fleetwide availability across the North American commercial nuclear fleet.
Early adopters include Constellation Energy, which operates 21 reactors across 12 plants and generates roughly one-third of the nation's clean nuclear power. Its scale made it a critical proving ground for AI tools designed to standardize knowledge access and support workforce continuity across distributed operations.
“The nuclear industry has built decades of knowledge and operating experience. As Constellation helps power the growth of AI, we're also exploring how AI tools can help our employees more easily access and apply that expertise to strengthen operations, support knowledge transfer and improve workforce effectiveness. We're pleased to work with industry partners to make this information more accessible to the people who need it most.”
Senior Vice President, Governance & Oversight, Constellation
“Operational excellence in nuclear energy depends on the ability of nuclear professionals to access and apply the right knowledge at the right time. Technologies that responsibly strengthen knowledge access can play an important role in supporting long-term safety and reliability across the industry.”
EVP, Industry Strategy & Chief Nuclear Officer, INPO
“NIVA demonstrates how collaborative innovation can help transform decades of operating experience and technical expertise into actionable insights — helping accelerate knowledge transfer and advance safe, reliable, and efficient nuclear operations.”
Vice President of Nuclear & Chief Nuclear Officer, EPRI
“AI technologies like NIVA are helping modernize how the industry applies its decades of operational knowledge and expertise to strengthen our ability to license, operate, and maintain plants safely and efficiently for the long term.”
President & CEO, Nuclear Energy Institute
NIVA + Neutron Enterprise
NIVA connects to external industry sources (NRC, NEI, EPRI, and INPO), giving every nuclear professional access to the collective knowledge of the industry. But the same capabilities that power NIVA can also be configured to work with a plant's internal data through Neutron Enterprise, Atomic Canyon's on-site AI platform.
Imagine a Knowledge Assistant that sees not only external industry guidance but also your plant's licensing basis, procedures, historical maintenance records, and engineering drawings. Or an Operating Experience Assistant with access to your plant's previous work orders, root cause analyses, near-miss documentation, and corrective action records. That's what you get with Neutron Enterprise.
NIVA provides the industry-wide view. Neutron Enterprise brings that inside your station, where your most sensitive, plant-specific knowledge lives.
Learn more about Neutron Enterprise →A defining moment for the nuclear industry.
This is a defining moment for the nuclear industry. The U.S. nuclear sector sits on decades of invaluable technical and operational knowledge, but too much of that knowledge remains difficult to access at the speed modern deployments require. The fleetwide availability of NIVA shows that AI in nuclear power is real, operational, and ready to be deployed responsibly at a fleetwide scale.
Founder & CEO, Atomic Canyon
Atomic Canyon built its company around nuclear. We trained our own AI models on nuclear data with Oak Ridge National Laboratory. We deployed the first on-site generative AI system at a U.S. nuclear plant, at PG&E's Diablo Canyon. We spent years learning how plant professionals actually work before writing a line of code for NIVA.
Now the platform is heading to every plant across the North American commercial nuclear fleet. The goal is simple: less time searching, more time doing the work that keeps plants running safely.
Interested in NIVA?
The Nuclear Industry Virtual Assistant is available to nuclear professionals at INPO, EPRI, and NEI member plants. Get in touch to learn more.