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AI at work: Southern Nuclear’s adoption of Copilot agents drives fleet forward
Southern Nuclear is leading the charge in artificial intelligence integration, with employee-developed applications driving efficiencies in maintenance, operations, safety, and performance.
The tools span all roles within the company, with thousands of documented uses throughout the fleet, including improved maintenance efficiency, risk awareness in maintenance activities, and better-informed decision-making. The data-intensive process of preparing for and executing maintenance operations is streamlined by leveraging AI to put the right information at the fingertips for maintenance leaders, planners, schedulers, engineers, and technicians.
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Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 44 | Number 1 | July 2003 | Pages 186-190
Technical Paper | Fusion Energy - Fusion Materials | doi.org/10.13182/FST03-A331
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The influence of radiation damage on the fatigue performance of two selected copper alloys, a dispersion-strengthened CuAl-25 alloy and a precipitation-hardened CuCrZr alloy, was analyzed. The fatigue lives of the two alloys were predicted using their tensile properties before and after irradiation by the Universal Slopes method. The predicted lives are compared with experimental results, and the feasibility of using tensile properties to predict fatigue lives following irradiation is examined. The fatigue performance of these two copper alloys was degraded due to radiation exposure, but the radiation effect on the fatigue performance was not as severe as on the tensile properties. The life prediction agrees reasonably well with the measured fatigue response.