Westinghouse Electric Company and Google Cloud have announced collaboration agreement that will deploy artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support the construction of advanced reactors. By pairing Westinghouse’s HiVE™ and bertha™ nuclear AI solutions with Google Cloud technologies, the goal is to develop an efficient, repeatable construction process and also to enhance operations of existing nuclear power plants using data-driven insights.
As part of this collaboration, Westinghouse and Google Cloud have already achieved a first-of-a-kind proof of concept using Westinghouse’s WNEXUS digital plant design platform and HiVE artificial intelligence enhanced by Google Cloud technologies, including Vertex AI, Gemini and BigQuery, to autonomously generate and optimise AP1000 modular construction work packages. The partnership aims to demonstrate that AI can give companies a critical competitive advantage.
Westinghouse introduced the nuclear-specific AI platforms HiVE and bertha in September 2024 with the goal of optimising new nuclear deployment of the AP1000, AP300 and eVinci families of reactors. “By partnering with Google Cloud to enhance our HiVE and bertha technology, and backed by 75 years of our proprietary nuclear data, we can accelerate the deployment of new AP1000 units while implementing powerful AI technologies that will optimize the construction and operations of nuclear power plants,” said Dan Sumner, Westinghouse Interim Chief Executive Officer, in a statement.
