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Startup · United States

Atomic Canyon

HQ San Luis Obispo1-10 employees

Atomic Canyon builds AI for nuclear energy. Neutron, our AI workbench powered by FERMI, brings nuclear-grade search and purpose-built tools to nuclear teams.

StartupLimited fieldingNuclear engineering and operations software
Website
Total raised
$7.0M
2 rounds
Last round
Undisclosed
Seed · Mar 2, 2026
Systems
2
Capabilities
1

Funding2 rounds · $7.0M

Equity raised
$7.0M
Latest
UndisclosedSeed · Mar 2, 2026

Raised counts equity rounds; debt, secondary sales and grants are totaled separately. Amounts in other currencies are converted at the announcement month's average rate. A ~ marks an estimated or converted amount.

Systems2

Neutron

An AI workbench that provides nuclear‑specific enterprise search, workflow tools, and retrieval for nuclear professionals.

Maturity not rated

NIVA

The Nuclear Industry Virtual Assistant built on Neutron for use by INPO member plants.

Maturity not rated

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Capabilities1

  • Nuclear engineering and operations software
    Developer
    Neutron is deployed on site at PG&E's Diablo Canyon (all 1,300 workers since fall 2025); NIVA is the INPO member-plant assistant built on Neutron.
    Limited fieldingReported

Maturity and TRL describe this organization's work; the field-wide maturity is on each technology's page.

People2

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Sources11

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Profile3

  1. 1
    DatabaseAtomic Canyon - PitchBook company profile

    PitchBook · Supports Organization · employee range, Organization · linkedin url, Organization · x url

    “employee_range: 1-10 (profile: 9)”
  2. 2
    DatabaseSixth-Domain public startups directory

    Sixth-Domain · Supports Organization · country, Organization · kind

    “{"country": "USA", "hq_iso2": "US", "id": "45695a83-633b-421a-99ab-2b62c7e187a9"}”
  3. 3
    DatabaseAtomic Canyon - LinkedIn company profile

    LinkedIn · Supports Organization · employee range, Organization · linkedin url

    “employee_range: 1-10 (profile: 2-10 employees)”

Systems3

  1. 4
    CompanyAtomic Canyon — Powering Nuclear Progress with AI

    Atomic Canyon · Supports Organization · description, Organization · name, Organization · website, System

    “Atomic Canyon builds AI for nuclear energy. Neutron, our AI workbench powered by FERMI, brings nuclear-grade search and purpose-built tools to nuclear teams.”
  2. 5
    CompanyNeutron — Atomic Canyon

    Atomic Canyon · Supports System

    “# Neutron: The AI Workbench for Nuclear Professionals Nuclear-specific enterprise search, purpose-built workflow tools, and retrieval that connects to your data and speaks nuclear.”
  3. 6
    NewsCalifornia's last nuclear power plant has turned to AI to solve its big paperwork problem

    Business Insider · Supports Organization technology, System · system technology:nuclear-operations-software

    “Together, PG&E and Atomic Canyon created the first-ever commercial installation of an on-site generative AI tool at a US nuclear power plant.”

Technologies1

  1. 7
    NewsIt’s the first U.S. nuclear plant to use AI. Where does Diablo Canyon go from here?

    CalMatters · Supports Organization technology

    ““You can put this on the record: the AI guy in nuclear says there is no way in hell I want AI running my nuclear power plant right now,” Lauderdale said.”

Funding4

  1. 8
    NewsAtomic Canyon launches AI tool for nuclear industry

    Axios · Aug 18, 2026 · Supports Funding round, Organization · ownership

    “Nvidia and former Vanguard Group CEO Tim Buckley are new investors, and Atomic Canyon raised new funds from existing investor Plug and Play Ventures.”
  2. 9
    NewsAtomic Canyon wants to be ChatGPT for the nuclear industry

    TechCrunch · May 28, 2025 · Supports Funding round

    “Atomic Canyon closed a $7 million seed round led by Energy Impact Partners”
  3. 10
    CompanyAtomic Canyon Raises $7M led by Energy Impact Partners to bring AI-Powered Innovation to Nuclear Energy

    GlobeNewswire · May 28, 2025 · Supports Funding round · amount

    “The seed round was led by the Elevate Future Fund from Energy Impact Partners (EIP), with participation from Commonweal Ventures, Plug and Play Ventures, Wischoff Ventures, Tower Research Ventures, and previous angel investors.”
  4. 11
    DatabaseAtomic Canyon - Crunchbase company profile

    Crunchbase · Supports Funding round, Organization · employee range, Organization · hq city, Organization · linkedin url, Organization · x url, Role

    “seed - Atomic Canyon”

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