Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) on Wednesday marked the inaugural commercial installation of the first on-site generative AI deployment at a U.S. nuclear power plant. PG&E, a subsidiary of PG&E Corp.

Diablo Canyon gets nifty new tech to … speed up document retrieval? A California startup is deploying what it says is the first commercial installation of generative AI at a US nuclear power plant, but don't get too excited (or worried) about what it's going to be doing quite yet – it's a pretty run-of-the-mill use in an enterprise environment.

California's only remaining nuclear power plant plans to use artificial intelligence tools to help it comply with new licensing requirements to keep the decades-old facility running.

Atomic Canyon's Neutron Enterprise generative AI solution, built and running on NVIDIA's full-stack AI platform, aims to simplify document retrieval and improve efficiency at Diablo Canyon.

The move at Diablo Canyon is the latest example of the growing intersection between technology firms and the energy sector.