🚀 We Built Something Big for Nuclear Engineering
We’re proud to announce a major milestone at Rotex Technologies — the launch of Nuclear‑SQEP, the UK’s first open‑weight AI model purpose‑built for nuclear engineering.
This isn’t just another AI model applied to documents. This is domain intelligence engineered from the ground up.
⚙️ What makes Nuclear‑SQEP different?
Nuclear engineering is one of the most safety‑critical and knowledge‑intensive industries in the world. Everything hinges on SQEP (Suitably Qualified & Experienced Person) — and that knowledge is often fragmented, undocumented, or tied to individuals.
Nuclear‑SQEP changes that.
It’s trained to understand and reason across:
🔬 Nuclear regulatory frameworks (ONR, IAEA, UK legislation)
🧠 SQEP competency and assessment structures
🏗️ Decommissioning engineering and waste systems
🌡️ Thermal hydraulics & reactor fundamentals
⚡ Rotating equipment & electrical machines
🛡️ Safety case development & hazard analysis
In short: it speaks the language of nuclear engineering.
🧩 Why this matters
The UK nuclear sector is at a critical inflection point:
Accelerated decommissioning programmes
Emerging SMR deployment
Net Zero ambitions increasing demand on expertise
At the same time, institutional knowledge is at risk — locked in legacy systems or retiring engineers.
👉 Nuclear‑SQEP is designed as a scalable, interrogatable knowledge infrastructure — helping preserve, validate, and transfer expertise across generations.
🌍 Open, collaborative, and just getting started
We’ve released Nuclear‑SQEP as an open‑weight MVP on Hugging Face.
This is both:
A demonstration of capability
And an invitation to collaborate
We’re now looking to work with:
Nuclear operators & supply chain partners
AI/ML researchers and engineers
Investors aligned with the future of clean energy infrastructure
💬 From our CTO
“We built an AI model that speaks SQEP, safety cases, decommissioning, and regulatory compliance. This is not only a milestone for Rotex, but a foundation for how knowledge will be engineered in nuclear going forward.”
🔗 Explore & get involved
Search: Nuclear‑SQEP on Hugging Face Or connect with us directly to collaborate.
⚡ The bigger picture
At Rotex Technologies, we believe the future of nuclear isn’t just steel, systems, and physics— it’s knowledge infrastructure, digitisation, and AI‑augmented engineering.
Nuclear‑SQEP is our first step.
Nuclear-SQEP is the first open-weight AI model trained for nuclear industry knowledge, SQEP assessment, and regulated engineering intelligen