{"id":237373,"date":"2026-06-25T18:21:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T22:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/25\/ai-has-helped-to-slash-nuclear-licensing-review-times-nrc-official-says\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T19:15:28","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T23:15:28","slug":"ai-has-helped-to-slash-nuclear-licensing-review-times-nrc-official-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/25\/ai-has-helped-to-slash-nuclear-licensing-review-times-nrc-official-says\/","title":{"rendered":"AI has helped to slash nuclear licensing review times, NRC official says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nextgov.com\/artificial-intelligence\/2026\/06\/ai-has-helped-slash-nuclear-licensing-review-times-nrc-official-says\/414446\/\">AI has helped to slash nuclear licensing review times, NRC official says<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nextgov.com\/artificial-intelligence\/2026\/06\/ai-has-helped-slash-nuclear-licensing-review-times-nrc-official-says\/414446\/\">https:\/\/www.nextgov.com\/artificial-intelligence\/2026\/06\/ai-has-helped-slash-nuclear-licensing-review-times-nrc-official-says\/414446\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-25 18:21:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.nextgov.com\">www.nextgov.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has reduced nuclear facility licensing timelines from four years to 18 months, and further down to nine months with the use of artificial intelligence (AI).<\/li>\n<li>NRC Chief Data Officer Basia Sall highlighted that AI has built upon recent regulatory changes and federal guidance to turbocharge the licensing process.<\/li>\n<li>AI is being used to draft documents and check the precedent of previous decisions, making the review process more efficient.<\/li>\n<li>The NRC is collaborating with industry partners and using AI tools from the General Services Administration\u2019s OneGov initiative and USAi platform to conduct faster regulatory reviews.<\/li>\n<li>NRC has developed its own AI tool called SimplifAI, built off Azure OpenAI, to enhance efficiency and consistency in licensing, oversight, and regulatory activities.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AI has helped to slash nuclear licensing review times, NRC official says https:\/\/www.nextgov.com\/artificial-intelligence\/2026\/06\/ai-has-helped-slash-nuclear-licensing-review-times-nrc-official-says\/414446\/ Publish Date:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":237375,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.nextgov.com\/media\/img\/cd\/2026\/06\/25\/GettyImages_1563985210\/open-graph.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-237373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237373"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237373"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":237377,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237373\/revisions\/237377"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}