AI4Nuclear would like to invite you to a workshop to define the requirements for a national strategy for Artificial Intelligence. The proposal for this strategy is set out in the attached document which will form the basis for discussion at this workshop. The outputs of the workshop will be a policy driven paper to inform UK governments future strategy around artificial intelligence and digital to modernise approaches to whole life safety and regulation meeting the recommendations of the Fingleton led nuclear regulatory review, published in 2025. We will be concluding this activity at the AI4Nuclear conference at STFC Daresbury in October 2026.
The focus will be on the following areas:
(4) Science, technology, and infrastructure:
• Define what bodies need to be established to sit at the intersection between industry (need) and the technology development (research) ensuring that the UK promotes industry relevant world-class research in AI.
• Develop a set of common standards to access sovereign-UK and cloud-based resources to enable the practical implementation of AI tools within the nuclear industry.
• Define the role for AI growth zones in developing AI technologies to support the nuclear sector.
(5) Regulation and trustworthiness:
· Develop an assurance framework to bring technical competency, application context competency and innovation process competency together to build trustworthiness to the implementation of AI within the sector.
o Stand up AI validation testbeds (including regulatory sandboxes): synthetic data generation, digital twins, and safety-critical scenario replay.
· Develop a roadmap for accessing UK compute assets for nuclear-specific workloads, including confidential compute.
· Issue guidance on responsible use of generative AI for specific purposes including the production of technical documentation, modelling assistance, and safety case support.
· Create a joint industry–regulator working group to iterate guidance, share lessons, and reduce time-to-clarity.
(6) Business goals and use cases:
• Helping organisations navigate the complex landscape of AI technology, adapting to the high decision density associated with AI adoption across all 6 pillars of the nuclear AI strategy.
• Develop models for business change, quantifying the risk and return. This will be centred on the development of a new operating model for the nuclear sector relying on proportionally fewer human resources dedicated to safety case development and safety management supplemented by AI based technologies.
• Sharing learning across projects and programmes to encourage rapid adoption of AI technologies and act as a bridge to develop partnerships across all organisations working in the sector.
The format of the workshop will be a Q&A and round table discussion on the topics above where we will ask key questions around:
• What are we good at today?
• What do we need to be good at tomorrow?
• What are the enablers and blockers?
Click here to see co-ordinating document.
When: Wednesday 30th September, 10:00 to 16:00 (UK time)
Where: MS Teams (access will be provided in the registration confirmation email you will receive.)
Registration Deadline: Wednesday 30th September, 10:00