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Prometheus Tracker

Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Partner laboratory · National laboratory

Role in Prometheus

Advanced manufacturing and computing lead: at least 10 AI-enabled manufacturing/construction workflows at the Manufacturing Demonstration Facility, HPC multiphysics and automated confirmatory safety analysis for regulatory filings, and curation/NLP indexing of legacy DOE documentation. Also leads the Genesis American Science Cloud (AmSC).

Commitments

TierPartner laboratory
CategoryNational laboratory
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Assets brought to the program

  • Manufacturing Demonstration Facility
  • Frontier supercomputer

Workstreams

Milestone log

  • 2026-09-17 — ORNL publishes a dedicated Prometheus project page confirming it leads AI-enabled manufacturing and construction workflows, drawing on the Manufacturing Demonstration Facility — first-party confirmation of the workstream lead role (source)

Sources

  1. https://inl.gov/artificial-intelligence/prometheus/
  2. https://inl.gov/news-release/genesis-mission-funds-ai-innovation-to-speed-up-safe-affordable-nuclear-energy/
  3. https://neutronbytes.com/2026/07/24/doe-launches-60m-ai-initiative-to-speed-up-deployment-of-nuclear-energy-in-the-u-s/
  4. https://www.ornl.gov/project/advancing-ai-nuclear-energy-through-prometheus