10 CFR 50 requires documented safety analysis — AI recommendation without record = violation
—NRC AI guidance + NERC CIP
Regulatory exposure — commonly overlooked:
Predictive maintenance AI influences outage decisions — utility owns NRC finding, vendor owns SaaS SLA. · Multinationals built for one jurisdiction fail exams in another — one receipt architecture, many filing packs.
TAM / Exposure
US nuclear fleet · NRC increasing AI scrutiny post-2024 guidance
Insurance lines
Nuclear property · Utility liability
Exhibit authority
Global External Validation — Nuclear AI Safety Decision Pack
Global leaders
NRC · Exelon · NERC · IAEA · Duke Energy · ISO · NIST · OECD
Safety-related AI
Any AI touching safety systems requires 10 CFR 50.59 evaluation — receipt is evaluation record.
NERC CIP
Cybersecurity of AI accessing BES — CIP-007 applies to AI agents on OT network.
Insurance uninsurable
Without external validation, nuclear AI risks become uninsurable — plant outage cost $1M/day.