[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 104 (Wednesday, May 31, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Pages 34899-34900]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2023-11245]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[NRC-2022-0095]
NUREG: Artificial Intelligence Strategic Plan: Fiscal Years 2023-
2027
AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
ACTION: Final report; issuance.
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SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is issuing NUREG-
2261, ``Artificial Intelligence Strategic Plan: Fiscal Years 2023-
2027,'' dated May 31, 2023. The NRC's Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Strategic Plan, establishes the vision and goals for the NRC to
continue to improve its skills and capabilities to review and evaluate
the application of AI to NRC-regulated activities, maintain awareness
of technological innovations, and ensure the safe and secure use of AI
in NRC-regulated activities. The AI Strategic Plan includes five goals:
(1) ensure NRC readiness for regulatory decision-making, (2) establish
an organizational framework to review AI applications, (3) strengthen
and expand AI partnerships, (4) cultivate an AI proficient workforce,
and (5) pursue use cases to build an AI foundation across the NRC.
DATES: This document was published in the Federal Register on May 31,
2023.
ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2022-0095 when contacting the
NRC about the availability of information regarding this document. You
may obtain publicly available information related to this document
using any of the following methods:
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Federal Rulemaking Website: Go to https://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2022-0095. Address
questions about Docket IDs in Regulations.gov to Stacy Schumann;
telephone: 301-415-0624; email: [email protected]. For technical
questions, contact the individuals listed in the FOR FURTHER
INFORMATION CONTACT section of this document.
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(ADAMS): You may obtain publicly available documents online in the
ADAMS Public Documents collection at https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html. To begin the search, select ``Begin Web-based ADAMS
Search.'' For problems with ADAMS, please contact the NRC's Public
Document Room (PDR) reference staff at 1-800-397-4209, 301-415-4737, or
by email to [email protected]. The ADAMS accession number for each
document referenced (if it is available in ADAMS) is provided the first
time that it is mentioned in this document.
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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Matthew Dennis, telephone: 301-415-
3702; email: [email protected] and Luis Betancourt, telephone:
301-415-6146; email: [email protected]. Both are staff of the
Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research at the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Discussion
The purpose of NUREG-2261, ``Artificial Intelligence Strategic
Plan: Fiscal Years 2023-2027,'' is to ensure the NRC's readiness to
review and evaluate the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in NRC-
regulated activities. NUREG-2261, ``Artificial Intelligence Strategic
Plan: Fiscal Years 2023-2027,'' is available in ADAMS under Accession
No. ML23132A305. To better understand activities and plans for AI
across the nuclear industry, the staff hosted the 2021 Data Science and
AI Regulatory Applications Public Workshops and issued a Federal
Register notice on July 5, 2022, to solicit feedback on the draft AI
Strategic Plan (87 FR 39874). Information about and presentations from
the workshops can be found on the NRC public website at https://www.nrc.gov/public-involve/conference-symposia/data-science-ai-reg-workshops.html. These activities informed the development of the AI
Strategic Plan. The NRC anticipates that the nuclear industry may begin
deploying AI in NRC-regulated activities in the near future.
The AI Strategic Plan considers machine learning, natural language
processing, and deep learning to be subsets of AI. In practice, the
term AI describes various activities that range from data collection
and analyses to support human decisionmaking to fully autonomous
systems. The AI Strategic Plan adds to regulatory certainty by
augmenting NRC readiness to review the use of AI in NRC-regulated
activities.
The AI Strategic Plan establishes five goals to ensure the agency's
readiness to review the use of AI in NRC-regulated activities. The five
strategic goals are: (1) ensure NRC readiness for regulatory decision-
making, (2) establish an organizational framework to review AI
applications, (3) strengthen and expand AI partnerships, (4) cultivate
an AI proficient workforce, and (5) pursue use cases to build an AI
foundation across the NRC.
II. Public Comment Analysis
The NRC draft AI Strategic Plan for FY 2023-2027 was published in
the Federal Register for public comment on July 5, 2022 (87 FR 39874)
and the comment period closed on August 19, 2022. The NRC staff held a
transcribed comment-gathering public meeting on August 3, 2022, to
receive additional comments on the draft AI Strategic Plan. In addition
to the comments received during the public meeting, the NRC received
seven comment submissions in response to the Federal Register notice.
In total, the NRC staff identified and responded to 105 individual
comments received from individual members of the public and various
organizations. The NRC responses to these comments are available in
ADAMS under Accession No. ML23037A840.
Dated: May 22, 2023.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Raymond V. Furstenau,
Director, Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research.
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