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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.
Y. Mori, T. Noutsuka, Y. Takao, H. Nakashima
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 39 | Number 1 | January 2001 | Pages 195-198
Topical Lectures | doi.org/10.13182/FST01-A11963440
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Preliminary experiments are made on the EICR plasma thruster which can generate plasma with ECRH (Electron Cyclotron Resonance Heating) and accelerate ions with ICRFPI (Ion Cyclotron Range of Frequency Heating). A set of plasma diagnostics is being developed and installed. The electron temperature Te, electron density ne and ion temperature Ti were measured in our device. To examine ICRF wave propagation in the plasma, the magnetic fields were measured and the results show that the excited waves were attenuated before reaching the ICR layer. Moreover, ICRF wave absorption and propagation were calculated with an ICRF code. The strong energy absorption in the plasma was obtained at the ICR layers.