This is where Google comes in, with help to develop a custom AI-powered platform to optimize the reactor construction process. The new system combines AI models and prediction tools from both companies with Westinghouse's WNEXUS, a 3D digital twin of its reactors. With current and historic data, it is able to predict bottlenecks, optimize construction task sequences, adjust staffing levels, and account for external factors like supply chain constraints, the pair claim.
I saw the powerful potential of applying modern ML approaches we developed at Waymo to construction. This is a problem you could not solve without the modern approaches we saw to be so effective, and helped deploy, in transportation, so it felt like a huge opportunity to address this critical need.