Role in Prometheus
Overall lead and systems integrator. Leads real-time digital twin architectures, autonomous operations and control demonstrations, and AI-enabled nuclear fuel fabrication; houses central testing environments and coordinates multi-partner deployment.
Commitments
| Tier | Lead laboratory |
| Category | National laboratory |
| Board seat | — |
| Capital committed | — |
| In-kind | Decades of legacy nuclear and laboratory data; on-site test reactors for digital-twin validation |
| Ticker | — |
Assets brought to the program
- Advanced Test Reactor
- Materials and Fuels Complex
- Transient Reactor Test Facility (TREAT)
- Neutron Radiography Reactor (NRAD)
- MARVEL microreactor (expected late 2027)
Workstreams
- Platform & AI Infrastructure
- Autonomous Operations
- AI-Enabled Manufacturing & Construction
- Data Curation & Preparation
Milestone log
- 2026-02-17 — INL and NVIDIA announce Genesis Mission public-private partnership; nuclear challenge codenamed Prometheus (source)
- 2026-07-22 — DOE selects INL-led Prometheus for the first Genesis Mission Phase II award — $60M over three years, largest of 278 selections (source)
- 2026-09-16 — INL posts the Prometheus Industry Partnership Consortium Overview to the program page — tier terms ($10M/$6M/<=$5M in-kind), board and advisory governance, financial firewall, FY-27/28/29 roadmap; R&D World separately identifies Prometheus PI Peter Suyderhoud and the year-one build-and-test plan (source)
Sources
- https://inl.gov/artificial-intelligence/prometheus/
- https://inl.gov/news-release/genesis-mission-funds-ai-innovation-to-speed-up-safe-affordable-nuclear-energy/
- https://neutronbytes.com/2026/07/24/doe-launches-60m-ai-initiative-to-speed-up-deployment-of-nuclear-energy-in-the-u-s/
- https://inl.gov/content/uploads/2026/09/Prometheus-Industry-Partnership-Consortium-Overview.pdf
- https://www.rdworldonline.com/inls-60-million-nuclear-ai-project-will-spend-the-first-year-testing-where-ai-agents-can-help-and-where-they-might-hurt/