Everstar’s AI-powered 10 CFR 50.59 evaluation tool cuts a tedious yet high-stakes regulatory process down to ~20 minutes—without cutting corners. Instead of relying on scarce experts, endless document hunts, or risky guesswork, teams can describe a change, get guided screenings and full evaluations (with sources and confidence levels), and generate all required reports automatically. The result? Faster projects, fewer headaches, and confidence that every decision stands on solid ground.

You’ve probably already seen how we think about AI solutions for nuclear. Once you have that foundation, one of the most straightforward end-to-end tools our AI can deliver for operating reactors is a 10 CFR 50.59 evaluation tool.

Why 50.59? Lots of reasons.

It’s a process that engineering and regulatory affairs teams enter hundreds to thousands of times a year per plant. Getting an evaluation done in minutes instead of a month, or keeping a plant from giving up a project because they aren’t sure how it’ll evaluate out, can drive significant business value.

Despite the experience, the process is fraught with complications and uncertainty. It can hinge on the ability to find the right licensing basis documents and precedent, as well as the right interpretation of industry guidance. Sometimes there’s one expert per company—if they retire, their knowledge is lost.

The risk tolerance is low, as you’d expect in nuclear. You might want the answer to be that you don’t need a license amendment, but jumping to that conclusion without the right basis is a recipe for inspection challenges and possibly major rework. Even small slipups (stopping at a screening, for example) can lead to multiple regulatory conversations and heartache.

How does it work? It’s simple and user-centric.

1️⃣ Describe your change or attach your document—whatever you have. This can even be done iteratively as you plan a project to see if your design choices change the outcome.

2️⃣ Click to get applicability and screening in about five minutes. The tool describes its reasoning, with reference to guidance in plant documents and industry guidance, and won’t let you move forward unless you agree. You own the outcomes.

3️⃣ When evaluations are needed, click again to run the full process in another five minutes or so. The tool reasons through all 8 criteria in 50.59 and gives you a sources-cited assessment, including the confidence level for each step. You need to agree with every criterion, or provide more information to revise the answer, before you move forward. It can’t be “the AI said it was OK”—you’re the leader.

4️⃣ Click one last time to get all of the output reports you need. That rounds out a solid 20 minutes of AI work, not a week or month of your time. The tool produces automated drafts, based on your procedures and templates, of your internal 50.59 screening and evaluation form, your biennial report to the NRC, and the updates that are needed to your FSAR or procedures.

Everstar’s customers are already raving about it:

🎙️ "You sit around for a month debating if you really want to write an evaluation or not or if you want to just not do whatever thing you're talking about doing. So 20 minutes. That's … wow, that's awesome." — senior consultant, nuclear industry

🎙️ "It's going to say, we did this before. This is the results. This is what it looks like. These are the references that we use to get that. … Yeah, that's great." — lead licensing engineer, operating reactor

🎙️ “That would be killer to see something like that.” — engineer, operating reactor

See Steps 1-3 live in this sneak-preview video. Book a demo to see today's outputs (after we made some upgrades to the system) and try your examples!

Get Started Today

The more information the tools have access to, the more flexible and high quality the outputs are. However, you can eat the elephant one bite at a time. We offer an “Innovation Team Pilot” where you can test out the 50.59 module to see powerful evaluations at work, along with our research tools, based on a discrete set of uploaded and securely stored documents. All of this is possible for a reasonable price for a small team to rapidly prove value.

To learn more, see a demo, or get started, contact hello@everstar.ai.