UK-based classification society and professional advisory service Lloyd’s Register will become one of the first maritime organisations to use generative AI in the regulatory process for nuclear plants in a bid to bridge the gap between terrestrial and maritime reactor applications.

The capabilities are designed to improve the regulatory process for nuclear technology and will be used by Lloyd’s Register to advance the deployment of nuclear in maritime applications.

Lloyd’s Register’s initiative will be built upon Microsoft’s Azure OpenAI Service. Azure’s generative AI capabilities work by analysing historic nuclear licensing data and allow licensing engineers to draft new permitting documents more quickly, ready for review and refinement. The technology can also quickly search for regulations, precedents and other valuable information buried in large regulatory datasets.