Yes, they’re planning to use ChatGPT to fill out the documents which show that the nuclear reactor is safe:

The generative AI experiments tap in to Microsoft’s investment in OpenAI, creator of the viral chatbot ChatGPT. For the past six months, a team of Microsoft employees have been training a large language model with U.S. nuclear regulatory and licensing documents, hoping to expedite the paperwork required for such approvals, which can take years and cost hundreds of millions of dollars.

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    7 months ago

    So they are training ChatGPT to pencil whip the regulations that are in place to prevent Chernobyl?

    Talk about regulatory capture…

    We’re all doomed

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      7 months ago

      That’s not what the purpose of the nuclear regulations is. The purpose of the onerous regulations is to prevent construction of nuclear plants and competition with fossil fuels. Regulatory Capture already happened, but it isn’t a fictitious nuclear-cabal. It’s the mining companies and energy companies that have seats on the various public regulatory boards.

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        7 months ago

        That’s not what the purpose of the nuclear regulations is. The purpose of the onerous regulations is to prevent construction of nuclear plants and competition with fossil fuels.

        Got a source for this claim?

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          Did their own reasearch. Turns out people are very enthusiastic about the thought of nuclear accidents in their own backyards, and the regulations reflect that. Love this democratization of information. Thanks Internet!

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    7 months ago

    Having worked for a nuclear company, and knowing a little bit about this, I can definitively say there is no way in hell the Nuclear Regulatory Commission will approve this. Maybe one day… in 2060.

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    7 months ago

    That’s nice. Make them store the nuclear waste on Microsoft property when they’re finished.