Solutions for Operating Reactor Licensing
Accelerate licensing processes with AI-powered document analysis, regulatory compliance tracking, and automated filing preparation for operating nuclear reactors.
What's Covered
Making Sense of History: Document Intelligence
Turn nuclear paperwork into instant answers. Everstar unlocks decades of legacy documents with best-in-class OCR and AI, so your team doesn't lose or reinvent critical information.
The What
Most plants are sitting on mountains of old documents. Everstar's document intelligence engine doesn't just scan; it understands. We recover more words, more tables, and even hard-to-read handwriting, then restructure everything into searchable, traceable formats.
The Why
Even the best "off-the-shelf" OCR fails on handwritten notes or multi-page tables, leaving safety and licensing teams with blind spots. It's not just about accessing information faster; it's about making better decisions with complete, trustworthy context.
The ROI
Manual research can take 30 minutes to 6 hours per query, depending on record condition and staff expertise. With Everstar, it takes 2 minutes. Across thousands of queries per year, this means:
- 5,000+ hours ($500K-$1M) saved
- weeks to months shaved from project timelines
- fewer "gotchas" of missed references
In short: what once required digging through paper now takes seconds, turning archives from a cost center into a decision-making asset.
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Knowledge that Sticks: Gordian Research
Everstar delivers nuclear expertise the way people actually learn—fast, contextual, and on demand.
The What
Everstar's Gordian Chat is the nuclear industry's expert-in-a-box. Unlike generic AI tools, Gordian connects directly to curated datasets, plant-specific documents, and regulatory guidance, producing outputs that are explainable, traceable, and tailored to nuclear.
The Why
Traditional "knowledge management" tools dump information into wikis, training videos, or SharePoint folders that nobody actually uses when the pressure is on. The real challenge isn't capturing knowledge—it's transferring it to the next person in a form they can immediately act on.
The ROI
Better KT has a massive impact:
- Cut years-long learning curves to months with instant plant- and role-specific guidance
- Shrink hours of manual research into minutes
- Get answers in context, not documents in a vacuum, cutting errors and increasing confidence
The bottom line: avoid millions in avoided inefficiencies and compliance costs, while building organizational resilience.
Demo Videos:
Gordian Research Demo 1
Gordian Research Demo 2
Gordian Research Demo 3
Change Is Good: Design Control
One platform for every change. Everstar unifies multiple processes with traceable, regulatory-ready outputs.
The What
Everstar's Gordian Change Control platform automates complex licensing-basis evaluations across all major NRC change processes. Each evaluation criterion is backed by plant-specific licensing bases, guidance, and precedent, ensuring that every change—no matter which regulation it falls under—is assessed consistently and defensibly.
The Why
Licensees juggle multiple regulatory regimes, each with subtle differences and strict documentation expectations. Manual evaluations risk inconsistency, delay, and unnecessary license amendments. Everstar's platform unifies these processes into a single, AI-powered workflow. Plant staff can focus on judgment, not paperwork.
The ROI
Manual change evaluations can take 80–200 hours per case under 50.59, and still require dozens of hours for "lighter" processes like 50.54(p) or 50.54(q). Everstar reduces this to minutes of automated reasoning plus focused review, cutting labor needs by 70–90% across the board. For a typical utility handling hundreds of changes annually, the impact is transformative:
Instead of piecemeal compliance, Everstar delivers unified change control—faster, safer, and more reliable.
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Mother, May I: Reactor Amendments
From precedent to package. Everstar streamlines amendments with research, drafting, and insight that cut months into days.
The What
Gordian helps you shortcut the amendment process safely. Our tools analyze prior approvals to reveal what worked, what failed, and why. Then, we provide templates and AI-assisted drafting to get a jump start on your LAR.
The Why
Teams often months to years mining precedent, combing through RAIs, and prepping LARs, only to risk NRC pushback for missing details. Everstar helps teams avoid past mistakes, anticipate questions, and deliver higher-quality submittals the first time.
The ROI
Complex LARs can take 10,000–20,000 staff hours, with costs running into the millions of dollars. Even smaller ones tie up staff for weeks. We slash that:
- Precedent search cuts research time by 80% and cuts schedule-derailing questions.
- Templates and AI drafting save hundreds of hours.
For a fleet submitting dozens of LARs annually, this translates to millions saved in labor, faster approvals, and earlier revenue recognition from plant changes or uprates.
Demo Videos:
Everstar's precedent-search Demo
Everstar's precedent-search tool (shown here in an early sneak-preview, now integrated into our main platform) helps you mine through history, so you can start from the best and not from scratch.
Inside Gordian, Demo
Inside Gordian, you can develop LARs as complex as power uprates and subsequent license renewal (shown in part in this video).