Advances nuclear regulatory oversight by encouraging the use of AI and machine learning to enhance risk-informed oversight and inspection decisions. Promotes efficiency through improved technology integration and staff training, while assessing and enabling licensee adoption of advanced technologies.
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This is a binding legislative act from the United States Congress with mandatory reporting requirements, specific deadlines, and clear obligations imposed on the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
The document has minimal coverage of AI risk domains, with only subdomain 7.3 (Lack of robustness) receiving a coverage score of 2. The document primarily focuses on nuclear regulatory oversight improvements and only briefly mentions AI/ML as a tool for risk-informed decision-making, without addressing specific AI risks or harms.
This document primarily governs the Public Administration sector (specifically the Nuclear Regulatory Commission) and the nuclear energy industry, which falls under Utilities within the Trade, Transportation and Utilities sector. The governance focuses on improving regulatory oversight processes, including potential use of AI/ML technologies.
The document briefly mentions AI and machine learning as tools to be incorporated into nuclear regulatory oversight and inspection processes, specifically in the 'Deploy' and 'Operate and Monitor' stages. The focus is on using AI to enhance risk-informed decision-making in an operational regulatory context, rather than on developing AI systems themselves.
The document makes only a brief, general reference to 'artificial intelligence and machine learning' as technologies to be used in nuclear regulatory oversight. It does not define or distinguish between AI models, systems, or specific types of AI, nor does it mention compute thresholds or model architectures.
United States Congress
The document is a section of an Act passed by the United States Congress, which is the legislative body that proposed and enacted this governance instrument.
United States Congress; Committee on Energy and Commerce of the House of Representatives; Committee on Environment and Public Works of the Senate
Congress enforces compliance through its oversight committees, which receive mandatory reports and can conduct oversight hearings. The Comptroller General also has a monitoring and review role.
Committee on Energy and Commerce of the House of Representatives; Committee on Environment and Public Works of the Senate; Comptroller General of the United States
The appropriate committees of Congress receive reports and conduct oversight. The Comptroller General (head of the Government Accountability Office) is specifically tasked with reviewing and reporting on Commission facilities and operations.
Nuclear Regulatory Commission; licensees holding licenses under section 103 or section 104 of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954
The document primarily targets the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, requiring it to submit reports and implement improvements. It also indirectly affects licensees (nuclear facility operators) through improved oversight procedures and potential adoption of advanced technologies including AI.